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Pollination Project: $1,000 seed grants to individual change makers

Have Fun - Do Good

The new Pollination Project is giving $1,000 seed grants to individual changemakers, every day, 365 days a year. Do you have an idea for a world-changing project that could bloom with some seed money?

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

We have everything from: Fundraising & Grants. Fundraising & Grants/ @CASEAdvance. Fundraising & Grants. National LGBTQ Task Force / Detroit, MI / $500. The National LGBTQ Task Force’s 2019 Creating Change Conference convenes in Detroit, Michigan January 23-27, 2019. Fundraising & Grants.

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Martin Luther King Day 2015

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I came-of-age politically growing up in Detroit in the 1950s when I was part of a picket line outside Woolworth''s because Blacks were not allowed to sit at lunch counters in Woolworth stores in the segregated South. In the America I grew up in, Black children were educated in segregated schools, separate although far from equal.

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Martin Luther King Day 2013

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I came-of-age politically growing up in Detroit in the 1950s when I was part of a picket line outside Woolworth''s because Blacks were not allowed to sit at lunch counters in Woolworth stores in the segregated South. In the America I grew up in, Black children were educated in segregated schools, separate although far from equal.

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Foundations That Tweet: Profile Patterns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Share history ( Detroit Foundation ). These accounts, which are often sporting the logo and name of the Foundation are used to provide news, grants information, and information resources like research studies, job announcements. It wasn't useless babble !). Talk vision and mission ( Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ).

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

Previously oversaw The Trevor Project’s crisis services program, when chat and text services expanded to 24/7 for the first time in the organization’s history, and oversaw the operations portfolio when Trevor launched an artificial intelligence partnership with Google . Sharon Russell. Vice President, Finance and Donor Development.

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No longer in extremis.

Museum 2.0

The Detroit Institute of Arts has been a precious anchor where many of us have created memories that helped define who we are today. My heart is certain there are good intentions amongst the leadership of the Detroit Institute of Arts. It would be difficult to count the wonderful opportunities I’ve had here. I disagree. I am hopeful.

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