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September Cause Awareness: National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

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September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Keep reading to learn more about National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and ways you can acknowledge and observe this important cause. Keep reading to learn more about National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and ways you can acknowledge and observe this important cause.

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Client Spotlight: Joseph Maley Foundation

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According to the World Health Organization , International Day of People with Disabilities is a “United Nations Day celebrated on December 3 rd every year. Joseph Maley Foundation , established in 2008, is cultivating a more accepting, respectful, and inclusive community through education and service programs for youth. Who they are.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities. Even in the United States, this was true of probably a quarter of our student users.

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Senator Hillary Clinton at the Service Nation Summit!

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." -- James Keller Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) was one of the final speakers today at the Service Nation Summit. Clinton called America, "The" Service Nation, and said that service has never been more important than it is today. "As You can read my other posts from the Service Nation Summit here. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Sen.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Lili Wang

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We're thrilled to have such accomplished faculty on board to help our nonprofit management students reach their full potential! I joined ASU in Fall 2008, and it’s been 8 years. Meet Dr. Wang. How would you describe yourself in 5-10 words? I am a faculty (associate professor) of ASU. What is your main area of interest?

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

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She founded the nonprofit Sustainable South Bronx , was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and today leads the Majora Carter Group , an economic consulting firm she formed in 2008 to bring her approach to underserved communities across the country. SB] 2 is but part of Majora’s multi-pronged strategy for urban renewal.

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Blueprint Book Club Part 3: The Future of the National Vending Machine

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This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. But the National Vending Machine, as most of INNL’s projects, is a prototype. We’d like to share some thoughts and ideas in this guest post.