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COVID-related National Service cannot just be gap year for privileged youth

ASU Lodestar Center

America has a long and rich history of national service, often turning to it as a powerful lever in times of crisis, as it did after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Great Recession of 2008. It has been reported that the virus is twice as deadly for Black and Latino people in New York City as compared to whites.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

What are ways of translating early warning dashboards captured at the global level into local action? She has worked across multiple low and middle-income countries in both policy and research capacities. What are ways of providing specific and real-time guidance for farmers? Eric Munoz. Senior Program Manager, Oxfam America.

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How can nonprofits effectively implement revenue diversification?

ASU Lodestar Center

The American spirit has long been rooted in entrepreneurial success (Acs et al, 2008). When one strategy, method, or product starts to plateau, there is room for a new strategy, method, or product, as a means of increasing revenue. New York: Nonprofit Finance Fund. In Nonprofit Policy Forum (Vol. Sources: Arcs, Z.,

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Try Eating for $4 a Day. Join The Hunger Challenge

Have Fun - Do Good

Last year, 6 food bloggers and recipe developers tried to eat 3 meals on $3 per day during the 2008 San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger Challenge. For a local perspective, peruse the list of food bank blogs. Or that 34 million people in the United States live on a food stamp budget?

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Advocating Nonprofit Advocacy: The Myth That 501(C)(3)s Can’t Engage in Advocacy

Connection Cafe

Legislation includes action by Congress, any state legislature, any local council, or similar governing body, with respect to acts, bills, resolutions, or similar items (such as legislative confirmation of appointive office), or by the public in referendum, ballot initiative, constitutional amendment, or similar procedure.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The World Without the Newspaper

See3

Their trouble is connected to the media fragmentation that I so frequently talk about and the rise of the web as a source for news. David Carr in the New York Times suggests that The Wire is placing too much of the blame for the failures in the newsroom on the management staff that has to make them. One is called Outside.In

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Bryant Terry: Eco-chef, Food Justice Activist, Author of Vegan Soul Kitchen

Have Fun - Do Good

He is currently a Fellow in the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program, which is a national project of the W.K. When I think about what my grandparents ate, and what their parents ate, they ate food that was as fresh as being harvested that day, as local as their backyard garden, and as seasonal as whatever was in season.