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

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I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting. What advice do you have for journalists right now? Yes, definitely.

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

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So the general proposition or principle in fundraising, which I learned decades ago, but does bear repeating, is that if you ask for money, you get advice, and if you’re asked for advice, you get money. . ” And the volunteer said, “Oh, I’m not asking for money, I just want to get your advice.

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Got the Winter Blues? Giving May Cheer You Up

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According to the Washington Post article, If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Only Be Natural , another study found that when, "volunteers placed the interests of others before their own, the generosity activated a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food or sex. I'm a big fan of Kiva too.

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Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange Talks about the Global Citizen Center

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Everybody says great idea, but you have to make sure you watch out for this, and everybody's got some advice, but nobody has said bad idea. They build a building, and then they just fill it up, and there's an architecture firm, and a law firm, and whatever. Kevin: In the Green Festival my title is the Executive Co-Producer.

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