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Building a Tech-Driven Legal Aid Network for the 21st Century

Saleforce Nonprofit

In Illinois, even during “normal” times, there is a shortage of legal help, with only around 450 Legal Aid attorneys for 13 million Illinoisans, of whom 31.6% Through Salesforce, we began to build our vision of one legal aid network to help all of Illinois. By: Al Schwartz, Executive Director, CARPLS Legal Aid.

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Three Leadership ColLAB takeaways your association needs to leverage

Nimble AMS

In March , our Nimble AMS team attended the Leadership ColLAB conference hosted in Arlington Heights, Illinois. She spoke about the importance of keeping your association’s culture at the center of your mission and having it be your benchmark for building relationships at all organizational levels.

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How does Nimble AMS empower legacy AMS users?

Nimble AMS

In legacy AMS systems, reporting is often complicated, requiring a developer or IT team to customize and build lists, as well as create queries and reports. You can easily build lists, queries, reports, and dashboards to meet your specific association needs, all with point-and-click configuration, and requiring no code.

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Commentary: Closing the Wealth Gap, Close to Home

The NonProfit Times

On a smaller scale, the city of Evanston, Illinois has promised $10 million to the descendants of city residents subjected to housing discrimination. Funding such service organizations in a way that would allow them to build reserves of, say, three months’ operating cash would help to ensure that they keep working.

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Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023?

Candid

To build trust and prioritize community voices, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Community Fund adopted a participatory grantmaking practice in 2021 and 2022. It describes learnings and findings from this diversion program’s aim to serve adults aged 18-26 years in Cook County, Illinois between May 2021 and June 2023.

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To Complete or Not to Complete?

sgEngage

Humble Beginnings From their humble beginnings back at Joliet Junior College in Joliet, Illinois, two-year institutions were designed with a different end in mind. Building Pathways to Completion Institutions must reflect, assess, and address the barriers that prevent timely completion, like failing to connect degrees to career placement.

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How to Apply for Grants: A Guide for Parks and Rec Orgs

Achieve

With these best practices, you’ll be able to build a stronger relationship with the grantmaker and reassure them that you’re putting their funds to good use. She has an MBA from University of Texas at Austin and a Finance degree from University of Illinois. Stay in touch with the grantmaker and keep them updated on your progress.

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