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Weekly update from PND

Candid

The Lewis Prize for Music has announced grants totaling more than $2 million in support of efforts to provide young people with music education, strengthen their communities, and put music at the center of efforts to advance racial equity. Lewis Prize for Music announces 2022 music education grants. January 13, 2022. January 13, 2022.

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VisionLink Is In The News: Real-Time Winter Storm Map

VisionLink

Using VisionLink''s outbound telephony polling software, over 12,000 people throughout New York and New Jersey received automated calls enabling them to report on what the storm was doing to their homes and to their local communities in real-time. How does it work?

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Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Wins Terry McAdam Nonprofit Book Award

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am donating my royalties to support the Sharing Foundationā€˜s college education program for young people in Cambodia. The book also has a social good purpose. My family is sponsoring Keo Savon, who we met this summer in Cambodia.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

If we focus our work on feeding the hungry, for example, do we actually create a system in which we rely on people needing our services? When working with communities, trying to enable change, looking for opportunities to spark collaboration, love seems like a strange thing to think about for many people. To Mama With Love.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

First, no trains, buses, or planes moved to or from New York City. We turned on CNN and watched together as scenes from New Jersey and New York flashed across the screen. Hurricane Sandy caused over 100 deaths in 10 states and left more people in the dark than any other storm in United States history.

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Government contracts and nonprofit organizations: Problems and solutions

ASU Lodestar Center

There is a long history of nonprofit organizations partnering with the government, usually at the state level, through contracts to help provide for and respond to community needs. they still exist to some extent three years later, there are people in. for the betterment of their communities. side is represented fully.

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Are Online Vote-for-Me Contests A Good Idea?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She also feels that contests have too much of a myopic focus on channeling dollars or click actions rather than engaging people's hearts and minds and souls. . AGI is a vehicle for positive social change ideas that connect people in need with people who want to help.

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