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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

The collective knowledge of our Leadership Council makes the Classy Awards a distinction unlike any other. Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Oxfam America. Feeding America. Abby Maxman.

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The 2009 America's Giving Challenge

Care2

In 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge encouraged 70,000 individuals to help raise more than $1.8 With the explosion of social media, America’s Giving Challenge hopes to get even more people involved this year and raise a lot more money for nonprofits. million for nonprofit organizations. Want to start or help a cause?

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America's Giving Challenge for Facebook Causes

Wild Apricot

The Case Foundation, Facebook Causes and PARADE Publications just launched the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge, a competition designed to raise both awareness and funds for charitable causes. From now through November 6, they’ll be giving away a total of $170,00 in prize money to participating U.S.-based read more ).

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Boulder Makes Worst Dressed List

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This town is always obnoxiously flaunting its "fittest-place-in-the-country" awards, and you will be hard-pressed to find one person here, including your 85-year-old grandmother, without a six-pack. Yet of Boulder''s 100,000 people, about 30,000 are students, some 99.9% are blonde, and all of them in better shape than you.

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Great reads from around the web on April 15th

Amy Sample Ward

Vodafone Americas Foundation Announces Wireless Innovation Project Winners - "The Vodafone Americas Foundation announced the winners of its Wireless Innovation Project, a new initiative that identifies and funds unique innovations using wireless related technology offering the best potential to address critical social issues around the world.

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Cause Camp: From Humble Roots to Must-Attend Conference

NonProfit Hub

Cause Camp is a nonprofit conference that has been nationally recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the best conferences in America for the nonprofit sector. After that, similar events called Brand Camp were held on and off annually through 2009. Nine scholarships for attendees were awarded.

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Good Food Revolution: Will Allen of Growing Power

Have Fun - Do Good

- her signature leadership program to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity in America. He was named the 2012 NCAA Theodore Roosevelt Award recipient. In May 2010, TIME magazine named Will to the TIME 100 World's Most Influential People. I also saw a more recent profile of him this spring on Food Forward.

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