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Grant Writing and the Perfect Storytelling

Tech Soup

In rural Boone County, West Virginia, Jennifer Massey bathes her children in contaminated water. Our state reports 24.5 Telling a story doesn't have to take pages and pages of text. It can be something as simple as an opening like this (this is fiction, by the way!): It's either that or not bathe them at all.

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Case Study: Community-Based Fundraising

NTEN

million members in Pennsylvania and West Virginia through the company's health care benefits business and is one of the largest Blue plans in the nation. Highmark Inc. is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, serving 4.8

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When is Equal Pay Day for social sector leaders in your state?

Candid

Equal Pay Day is a symbolic day created by the National Committee on Pay Equity to increase awareness about the gender wage gap. For the last two years, I’ve calculated Equal Pay Day for CEOs and executive directors in the social sector, based on Candid’s most recent Nonprofit Compensation Report. West Virginia.

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Humans@Work: How to Successfully Tackle HR Challenges

Top Nonprofits

Recent studies by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) report 26% of Americans admit to talking and debating politics in the workplace on a regular basis, 42% of all U.S. Politics, along with sex and religion, were once widely regarded as controversial topics that should be avoided in the workplace.

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10 Organizations Leading The Way This Mental Health Awareness Month

Everyaction

The Village Network is a behavioral health organization helping youth and families in Ohio and West Virginia become healthy and have brighter futures. Their vision is to become a national leader in the sphere of youth and family behavioral health, and in many areas they are already leading the way. The Village Network.

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Women Rise Up Against War: Rae Abileah of CODEPINK

Have Fun - Do Good

As local groups coordinator, I connect CODEPINK's national campaigns with the grassroots women's movement for peace, and brings organizing resources to local coordinators. I graduated college in New York City the summer of 2004 and went to the Republican National Convention (RNC) protest at the end of that August.

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