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How Indigenous Peoples’ Day is Supplanting Columbus Day

Whole Whale

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is celebrated across the United States on the second Monday in October and is a Federal Holiday as of 2021. The day celebrates and honors the cultures and contributions of Native Americans and Indigenous peoples. Columbus vs Indigenous Peoples’ Day Holiday Timeline History. As of 2022: 14 U.S.

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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 12, 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 Foundation‘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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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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Bill Bradley Advocates Citizen Leadership In New Book

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Five people with different skills, working together as a team, will produce more creatively and efficiently than five people toiling alone in a hierarchy. Some of Bradley’s other books include New York Times best-sellers: Time Present, Time Past ; The New American Story ; and Values of the Game.

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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.

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