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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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These were modest jobs, many in campus offices working with university administrators and faculty members. While securing my two university degrees, I conducted in-depth research. My mind was a sponge. CA: During both my undergraduate and graduate degrees, I held a variety of part-time jobs to help defray my college expenses.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Lili Wang

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I worked for the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University, and I got my doctoral degree from the University of Southern California. As a teacher or a mentor, seeing my students’ growth, whether it’s getting a dream job, winning an award, or presenting at a national conference, makes me proud.

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Keeping Your 2016 Resolutions with NetSquared's Free Workshops

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Now, I'm no Houdini, but I predict that your New Year's resolutions are noble, high-minded stuff like "find a mentor" or "learn a new skill every month." San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Diversity 2.0

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5 Things Nonprofits Can Learn from the Late, Great David Carr

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For example, the nonprofit sector is the fourth largest industry in California , producing more jobs than construction, real estate, or finance. Be Willing to Change Your Mind. Carr shows us how to adapt, learn, and maintain an open mind, all of which are needed to flourish in our changing environment.

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How I Got Here

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Part 1: It's What You Want In 2002, I was finishing a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at WPI, a hands-on, technical university in Worcester, Massachusetts. By summer of 2007, when I left the Spy Museum to move to California, the blog was a big deal. Heroes I admired from afar became friends and mentors.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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During one of the most exciting periods in NASA's history, some of the toughest, most mission-critical work was being done behind the scenes by the astute minds of Johnson, Vaughn, and Jackson. Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too.

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Leaders in Nonprofit Technology: Daniel Ben-Horin

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With initial funding of $2,500, he started the CompuMentor Project to match computer enthusiast volunteers called computer mentors with Bay Area nonprofits that needed the help. He took a psychology degree from the University of Chicago in 1969 and became a reporter and columnist for the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix.