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August Awareness: National Back to School Month

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With more families living in urban and suburban areas, some schools have shifted to a year-round or alternative academic calendar, but the majority of schools still keep a start date sometime in August, making it the perfect awareness month for back-to-school preparations. Teach for America. Kids in Need Foundation. Final thoughts.

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What's Your Big Idea for Change in America?

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Ideas for Change in America is a citizen-driven project that aims to identify and. such initiatives for a limited period of time to see if this method generates alternatives that may not have come to light through other means. create momentum around the best ideas for how the Obama Administration and 111th. Go submit it.

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The City of Dublin Integrates VolunteerHub with Learning Management System (LMS)

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A year later, in 1989, the festival welcomed its first national band, Mick Moloney’s Green Fields of America. Online registration and training have also been a welcomed addition amid the COVID-19 pandemic because it provides festival servers with a safe alternative to in-person training.

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Case Study: M+R Walks Us Through Testing an Email Fundraising Campaign from Oxfam America

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M+R Strategic Services has been working with Oxfam America, an international relief organization, since 2002. But when it comes to running a big fundraising campaign, good planning doesn’t just improve your quality of life – it improves the bottom line. In 2010, we started preparing months in advance for end-of-year fundraising.

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Save the Children Alternative Gift Catalog: Amazing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just adding to the meme of alternative gift giving ideas that Steve Garfield started last week. What is your favorite alternative gift-giving site or program? Save the Children. As with my previous post, this is an open invitation to any shop for a cause or gift the gift of a donation to a charity service or project to leave a comment.

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Martin Luther King Day 2015

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Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, 1964 It is still the Winter of America''s discontent. I grew up in an America where legally-mandated segregation was reality. In the America I grew up in, Black children were educated in segregated schools, separate although far from equal. Douglas Zimmerman President and CEO VisionLink, Inc.

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Martin Luther King Day 2013

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Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, 1964 It is still the Winter of America''s discontent. I grew up in an America where legally-mandated segregation was reality. In the America I grew up in, Black children were educated in segregated schools, separate although far from equal. Martin Luther King, Jr. Free at last.

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