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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. government and states like Texas.

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Happy Birthday! The Charitable Deduction Turns 100

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The United States was drawn into the war in the spring of 1917. It is a basic feature of the charitable sector in the United States. I tell my students that the deduction is a “tool of government”: the federal government gives us financial incentives to spend our money in certain productive ways. think tank.

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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. The National Strategy for Suicide Prevention is a “call to action that is intended to guide suicide prevention actions in the United States over the next decade.” Agencies from within the U.S.

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What Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions?

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"[S]top thinking about how crazy the times are, and start thinking about what the crazy times demand."-- Seth Godin A couple weeks ago blogger Latoya Peterson posted her 2008 Activist Resolutions on Racialicious. What are your 2008 Activist Resolutions? I really liked this idea so thought I'd post my own: 1.

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

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continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Most researchers agree that low-income earners volunteer less (Wilson, 2012) and Pho (2008) extended this finding to include medium-wage earners. As part of a. highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

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A 2008 study shows that the nonprofit sector employs approximately 13 million people in the United States. [1] NMI students agree; however, they additionally rank high their interest in learning about strategic planning, board governance, grant writing, marketing, program evaluation, and social entrepreneurship.

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Lions and Tigers and Bears! Oh, My(Space)! The Fears People and Organizations Have

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DREAMActivist.org , for example, enables students using social technologies to share stories of undocumented young people who face possible deportation despite the fact that they've grown up in the United States. That need to address our fears and protect ourselves is a part of doing politics," Sen argues.

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