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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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Do you need a lot of training, or just the basics? In fact, that fundamental training allows me still today to be independent and not to rely on office assistants, and it helps make grant writing a snap. Many readers asked How do you become a grant writer? What classes are best? Would volunteering help?

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How Can Nonprofits Increase Leadership and Staff Diversity?

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Organizations can accomplish this by obtaining certifications, training staff, providing mediation services, team building, an explanation of new policies and procedures, and staff surveys to be used as a check and balance system. Capstone CEO Interview [In-person interview]. Sources: Cecala, K. 2016, October 3). doi:10.1111/j.1540-6210.2004.00401.x.

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Van Jones Testifies Before Congress on Green Collar Jobs

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Over the past month, many of you have posted comments or sent me emails about my interview with Van Jones, the President and Co-founder of Oakland's Ella Baker Center , that I posted here, and on the Big Vision Podcast. I just finished listening to your podcast interview of Van Jones. This guy is a genius. in Lansing, MI.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

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On July 9, 2009 I interviewed David about Spot.us Below is an edited transcript of the interview which you also can listen to online , or subscribe to via iTunes. We also did an interview with the reporter to get a feel for what went into the reporting. And it'll probably be to Southern California, Los Angeles, next.

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#4Change Chat Wrap-Up: Community Building

Amy Sample Ward

From @rootwork: The Media Mobilizing Project has done a lot here in Philly connecting community organizing to social media and especially video — community media trainings, organizing people to interview each other, etc.

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Join the 29-Day Giving Challenge: Change Lives One Gift at a Time

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I was in a very dark period in my life dealing with a chronic illness (multiple sclerosis) as well as a major move from San Francisco to Los Angeles. I donated to a Relief International health clinic in the Zam Zam refugee camp in Darfur that trains indigenous doctors, midwives, and community health workers.

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Another Exclusivity Paradox: Secret Gardens, Hidden Museums

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And then there's the Berkeley Ace hardware store, which has a basement lair devoted to model trains. I know I feel that way about the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles; I feel a bit of pride every time I usher a skeptical friend through the non-descript storefront and into a world of strange wonder.

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