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Weekly update from PND

Candid

million to help preserve affordable housing in Arlington County, Virginia, and Nashville, Tennessee. Giving Pledge announces 2021 signatories. Amazon has announced commitments totaling $161.5 NDN Collective, Nexus Community Partners receive $100 million. December 15, 2021.

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NCOA Gets $8M Gift From Scott

The NonProfit Times

One of the few known gifts in the latest round of giving by author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott was an $8-million gift to the National Council on Aging (NCOA). My commitment to sharing information about my own giving has never wavered,” Scott wrote, committing to posting updates twice every 12 months or so.

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Lame spam of the day: BBB service Re: Case # (various numbers)

Robert Weiner

Please examine this issue and notify us of your opinion. Arlington, VA 22203-1838. Please give attention to this case and advise us of your standpoint. Arlington, VA 22203-1838. Arlington, VA 22203-1838. Arlington, VA 22203-1838. Arlington, VA 22203-1838. The "click here " link leads to [link] ).

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New on SSIR: Can Giving Days Strengthen Your Community?

Amy Sample Ward

. —– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. In the report, Geoff describes the training this way: The training program treated the giving day as an exercise in best practices.

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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Rare, which is based in Arlington, Virginia, uses Miradi in all its worldwide campaigns to promote biodiversity and has translated the Miradi software into Bahasa Indonesia, Mandarin and Spanish. Elaina learned how to use Miradi while working on a Guam watershed plan with CMP member The Nature Conservancy.

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Why do we keep working in museums?

Museum 2.0

I like this thing it is good This thing has issues, nothing is perfect and in fact by examining those aspects I can relate to it better I do not mean to say our parents, partners, or friends have an unhealthy relationship to museums. However, our passion, aka “how much we give a s**t” is also our greatest weapon.

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Charitable Giving in Higher Education: A Conversation with CASE’s Sue Cunningham

sgEngage

The following Q&A is excerpted from the Blackbaud Institute’s Charitable Giving Report Spotlight: Using 2020 Data to Transform Your Higher Education Institution’s Strategy. The CASE Voluntary Support of Education Survey (CASE VSE) indicates that the majority of restricted giving to endowments is given for student financial aid (39.7%