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Are you celebrating Giving Tuesday? These NTEN Members are!

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The Trust for Public Land TransForm Transportation Alternatives United Nations Foundation United Way for Southeastern Michigan United Way of Genesee County Vermont Foodbank Volunteers of America Wade Edwards Foundation and Learning Lab Women Employed World Food Program USA YES! 2013 nten challenge Fundraising givingtuesday'

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Young People Are Skeptical of Information Learned on Twitter - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society

AFP Blog

With news feeds giving us constant updates from many sources—some reliable, some not—it’d be very easy to conflate fact with conjecture. So a new research paper from Michigan State University is particularly welcome.

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The 15NTC Steering Committee: Ready for your submissions!

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Weiner Consulting Leon Wilson, Senior Director, Technology and Data Engagement, Michigan Nonprofit Association Meico Whitlock, Senior Manager, Communications, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors We know this power team will help make the 15NTC programming our best yet!

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Research Friday: Senior Arizona volunteers -- how do they stack up against the rest of the nation?

ASU Lodestar Center

Subscribe to the feed here , or click here to subscribe via email. A few years ago, the ASU Lodestar Center, working in collaboration within the AIM Alliance (nonprofit centers in Arizona, Indiana, and Michigan), investigated giving and volunteering behaviors specifically within those three states. Love our Research Friday series?

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How Faith-Based Hope Endeavors Effectively Fights the AIDS Epidemic and Changes Lives in the U.S. and Africa

Tech Soup

This is the story of how a Michigan faith based organization called Hope Endeavors leads significant humanitarian work from a home office. She spent her days collecting sticks in hopes of selling them at a local market so she could feed her siblings. Maddie is from a small town in Michigan.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: $250000 Collaboration Prize Finalists.

ASU Lodestar Center

The Collaboration Prize was created and is funded by The Lodestar Foundation in collaboration with the Arizona-Indiana-Michigan (AIM) Alliance , of which the ASU Lodestar Center is an integral part. The Finalists are: Adoption Coalition of Texas , Austin, Texas Community Voice Mail Federation , Seattle, Washington Feed More, Inc.

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Van Jones Testifies Before Congress on Green Collar Jobs

Have Fun - Do Good

We'll still force-feed you with GMOs. in Lansing, MI. The Select Committee held a special hearing, entitled: "Economic Impacts of Global Warming: Green Collar Jobs." It doesn't matter if you don't want GMOs. It doesn't matter if you don't want to privatize your education system, we'll still privatize it anyway.'

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