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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

Baltimore Community Foundation. Baltimore Community Foundation. Areas served: Baltimore/Maryland. The letter should tell them about your organization, the project you have in mind, the issue or need you seek to address and the amount of support you will need from them. McCormick Foundation. The Skillman Foundation.

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How Baltimore Became the Most Generous City in America on Giving Tuesday

Connection Cafe

With this in mind, Jamie and her team decided to do something greater for their clients and for themselves as givers, so they set their sights on building a campaign that would be meaningful for their entire city, Baltimore. It’s a re-framing of where the power is in the decision. That’s the energy behind the movement.

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#TBT to That Time the Baltimore Ravens Taught Me an Important Lesson in Fundraising

Connection Cafe

To help us conquer our fundraising fears, we need to leave the fundraising universe and broaden our minds. On February 3 rd the underdog won out and the Baltimore Ravens became Super Bowl champions! In 2008, the Baltimore Ravens made what some would say was an unconventional hire when they named John Harbaugh as their new Head Coach.

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Storymakers 2014 Winners — A Global Success

Tech Soup

But how can stories touch hearts and minds if they go unnoticed and unheard? The winner of the digital storytelling award that promotes a youth cause or STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is "Free Running in Baltimore" by Wide Angle Youth Media, created by Tyson Sanford-Griffin.

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[AFP 2015] AFP CEO and President Shares Fundraising Insight

NonProfit Hub

When you put 4,000 fundraisers at one conference, there’s a certain energy in the air—and it was infectious at AFP 2015 in Baltimore. But what seemed to be the topic on everybody’s mind? Improving retention was huge.

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Ex-Navy SEAL Mark Divine Shares Insights From His Leadership Book, The Way Of The SEAL

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. This is primarily because they have never been taught how to use their whole minds.

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Meet the Community’s New Lead Organizers

NTEN

Please join NTEN in welcoming our new Lead Organizers, Dave Tinker (Pittsburgh, PA) and James Porter (Denver, CO) for Tech Clubs and Dar Veverka (Baltimore, MD), and Jonea Agwa (Burlington, Ontario, Canada) for online groups. I am really looking forward to helping like-minded individuals. What is something you do really well?