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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. Carnegie Corporation of New York. Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

NTEN

This " Demo Spotlight " highlighted six upcoming games to present their work in front of a stellar jury: Frank Lantz of Zynga New York and NYU, Ken Perlin of the Games for Learning Institute , and Connie Yowell from the MacArthur Foundation. SOS_SLAVES. Make sure the game is targeted to the right audiences. THE BOTTOM LINE.

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A Volunteer and a Violent Stranger - A Question of Liability

ASU Lodestar Center

After the tutoring session, and in accordance with his training, the volunteer escorts the student back to the classroom. NY Nonprofits/Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York, June 1998. In this example, a volunteer is assigned to provide tutoring to grade school students on campus. Volunteer Protection Act of 1997.

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A Volunteer and a Violent Stranger - A Question of Liability

ASU Lodestar Center

After the tutoring session, and in accordance with his training, the volunteer escorts the student back to the classroom. NY Nonprofits/Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York, June 1998. In this example, a volunteer is assigned to provide tutoring to grade school students on campus. Volunteer Protection Act of 1997.

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NYSSCPA / New York, NY / $480. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Innovation Enterprise / New York, NY / $1,695. Digital Marketing Conferences (DIGIMARCON) / New York, NY / $597. Finance / @southwestfdns.

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Finding the Great Impact Story

Tech Soup

I was building social media contacts with progressive policy organizations and conducting a routine communications capacity audit. A month after the story was published, an email arrived from a writer at the New York Times who had discovered our feature and wanted to write it up.

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Raising the Floor of the Platform Economy: Co-ops, Unions, and the Struggle to Transform Technology

Non Profit Quarterly

For instance, the Drivers Cooperative in New York started in an educational classroom among Uber and Lyft drivers, after workers became tired of paying high commission fees to these platform companies while also being required to pay for their own job expenses such as insurance and repairs. Today, it has over 5,000 members.

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