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Alt-labor: What are workers’ rights nonprofits?  

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Funding to workers’ rights organizations increased since the 2008 financial crisis. This figure accounts for more than the entire sum of funding for California, Texas, and Florida combined. 9 The California Endowment CA $10,226,937 2.7% million to $35.6 DC $17,678,500 4.6% 5 Marguerite Casey Foundation WA $17,527,500 4.6%

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Research Friday: Battling Domestic Violence with Data

ASU Lodestar Center

This week, in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month , I’ll examine the impact of these issues on a specific subsector: Domestic violence service providers in California. With support from the Blue Shield of California Foundation , NFF recently released Navigating a New Course , a report on the challenges these organizations are facing.

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September Cause Awareness: National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

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Edwin Shneidman (left) at his home in Los Angeles, California with Maurizio Pompili, who was the recipient of the 2008 Shneidman Award. A co-founder of the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center in 1958, Shneidman is considered a pioneer in suicide prevention. Agencies from within the U.S.

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Determined to Trend - Guest Post by James Leventhal

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The “superfriends” on stage at OMCA’s California Futures at the Massive Reopening Celebration. When the New de Young opened it did a 32-hour party and community celebration , starting a trend that was then picked up by the Contemporary Jewish Museum with Dawn in 2008 and now the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA).

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The End of an Era

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I moved to Oakland in September of 2008, for a number of reasons. I don''t quite know why there aren''t well-integrated enclaves including plenty of hippie/queer blacks in rural Northern California, but there aren''t (you''d think that if any state had them, California would.) Oakland will always remain in my heart.

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Diversity in fundraising

ASU Lodestar Center

Chappell was born and raised in the Bay Area of California in a small city named Morgan Hill. in History from Arizona State University in 2008 and earned an M.A. David Chappell is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. He earned a B.A.

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

Most researchers agree that low-income earners volunteer less (Wilson, 2012) and Pho (2008) extended this finding to include medium-wage earners. Piper Trust funded an expansion of the Encore Fellowships program that originated in California. As part of a. highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can.