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Higher Education Funding & Grant Resources

Bloomerang

Change Happens Foundation. The Emeril Lagasse Foundation provides grants related to nutrition and culinary education, life skills development, childhood hunger, and arts education. Change Happens Foundation. International Game Technology. Costco Wholesale. Boeing Company Charitable Trust. Kellogg Foundation. Guitar Center.

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Bringing “NOW Generation” Leaders to the Forefront

ASU Lodestar Center

Find out how you can mentor one of these individuals to ensure they make the right decisions, create positive change in the community, and learn from you, the expert, in the nonprofit field. It is a selfless act for someone to choose to enter a world where money is not a driving factor, but helping others is.

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The Break-Up: How to Say No to Volunteers

NonProfit Hub

Katniss would have been devastated as she watched her sister escorted off to the Hunger Games and the book/movie series would have turned out drastically different. If you feel they are lacking a necessary skill or trait, offer them training or the mentoring they need to improve themselves. However, what if she was told no?

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

An App To End World Hunger? The New York City-based nonprofit Spare Change is developing a smartphone app that will soon launch. How this will move the needle on world hunger? That’d definitely put a dent in the $143 billion price tag that the UN Development Program estimates it would take to end world hunger.

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The Break-Up: How to Say No to Volunteers

NonProfit Hub

Katniss would have been devastated as she watched her sister escorted off to the Hunger Games and the book/movie series would have turned out drastically different. If you feel they are lacking a necessary skill or trait, offer them training or the mentoring they need to improve themselves. However, what if she was told no?

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Guest Post by Michaela Hackner: Community Matters Even At SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At this year's SXSW, I was invited to participate on a flash panel about women and technology conferences which ended up being about mentoring. Both online and offline, communities are not only the way we identify ourselves, but more importantly, they are the most authentic and powerful vehicle for change. She did a fantastic job.

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How Skills-Based Volunteerism Creates Transformational Experiences

Connection Cafe

The most prominent answers were hunger, poverty, racism, education, police brutality, and pollution. Our discussion then organically evolved into a conversation about how the mindset of businesses are changing toward a notion of profit and purpose. I asked the group, “What do you think are the most pressing problems in the world today?”

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