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How WSU Tech Reignited a Culture of Giving with Their 2024 Employee Donor Campaign

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At WSU Tech in Wichita, Kansas, our employees are more than educators and staffthey are champions of student success. This deep commitment to students extends beyond the classroom and campus. A major milestone of the 2024 campaign was the creation of the Employee Hardship Fund.

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New Tips from the Giving Day Playbook on Crowdfunding Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, Knight Foundation published the Giving Day Playbook , a soup-to-nuts guide to 24-hour online campaigns that community foundations are increasingly organizing to promote local philanthropy. In Kansas, for example, the Wichita Community Foundation reached out to a local tech alliance to help with social media updates.

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Remembering Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Connection Cafe

As a collegiate baseball player in Wichita, KS, I volunteered at a local event and became hooked. For me it is one of those life moments where I will remember where I was and what I was doing when I “heard” the news.

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A gutted National Weather Service will have to deal with more tornadoes this year than last. Officials are worried

Fast Company Tech

” “It has made it hard on the local offices just to make sure that we have all of our important duties covered. A leaner weather service is seeing more extreme weather The Storm Prediction Center had tallied 883 local tornado reports this year as of Monday, which was 35% higher than average for this time of year.

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Smithsonian caught in the crosshairs of Trump’s history wars

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I teach history in Connecticut , but I grew up in Oklahoma and Kansas, where my interest in the subject was sparked by visits to local museums. I fondly remember trips to the Fellow-Reeves Museum in Wichita, Kansas, and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.

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