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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

New York Every year, social entrepreneurs and donors (along with a whole lot of other folks) converge on New York City. I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. Visiting the Hon.

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Understanding Income Inequality

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I met her last year at KentPresents , a brand-new conference organized by the incredible duo of Ben and Donna Rosen. Janet is also a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), and she runs a satellite office of LIS there. family structure? Which are widespread?

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Great reads from around the web on May 28th

Amy Sample Ward

Did I think it had anything to do with minorities being more trusting of the government during the Obama era? " The new JustGiving Facebook app is here « JustGiving blog – JustGiving has a new facebook application out! ."

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. This first grant allowed us to pilot a Bookshare outreach project in the New York metro area, with a de facto focus on senior citizens with vision loss. government and states like Texas.

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Colombia’s “False Positives�

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The ugly truth is out, and it is being picked up by international media that can hardly be accused of cozying up to the guerrilla, such as the New York Times. It is they who do the actual killing of the "hired hands" and then dress them up and arm them as guerrilla members fallen in combat. The actual figures could be much higher.

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Nonprofit Finance: Cash Flow is Do or Die

BoardAssist

As New York’s leading personalized board matching service, folks come to BoardAssist every day looking to make a difference in the nonprofit world. Since her retirement from the securities industry in 2007, Ms. They want us to find them a way to truly be an agent of change on the boards where we place them.

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Research Friday: Volunteering and Financial Statements - What’s Missing?

ASU Lodestar Center

The authors present statements from Junior Achievement of Rochester, New York Area to illustrate. Junior Achievement of Rochester, New York Area, Inc. # Governance. Junior Achievement of Rochester, New York Area, Inc. Sigel Press, 2007, pg. First, volunteer efforts are monetized. High school.