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Research Friday: The Self-Sufficiency Standard

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While it has been adjusted for inflation, it has never accurately reflected household costs, nor does it take into account childcare costs or other family variables. Consequently, many hard-working, low-income families look to public supports like food stamps, WIC, KidsCare and subsidized child care to keep their heads above water.

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Nonprofit Start-Up Fever Hits the Valley, Sweeps the Nation

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In a normal month, 40 to 50 Arizona nonprofits will gain ‘public charity’ status from the IRS. You can see this reflected in the chart, with a low-point coming in the average for November and December 2012: 31 new Arizona charities. What is driving this explosion in public charities in Arizona? Ooh, I’m on pins and needles.

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AOL tries to discuss a difficult issue

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In offering the public the example he gave, Armstrong rhetorically asked me to consider the sacred. Had Armstrong asked his employees and the public to “examine the rising cost of healthcare and its effect on employee benefits” people would, no doubt, have agreed to do so. Did he have the right…the obligation to raise the issue?

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Diversity recruitment key to nonprofit boards achieving mission

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posted by Joseph Garcia Director of Communication, ASU Morrison Institute Director, ASU Morrison Institute Latino Public Policy Center. This study raises basic questions about the ability of many boards to truly represent and respond to the diversity of the public they serve,” said the research author Francie Ostrower.

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How Can Member-Based Nonprofits Use Lean Innovation to Remain Relevant?

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Often if a drug trial fails the public is unaware of the failure or the associated cost. Putnam reflects on his previous article “Bowling Alone: America Social Capitalism”. Durkin-Bighorn has a Bachelor’s from ASU in Public Administration and her Master’s in Nonprofit Leadership and Management from ASU.

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Lead or Follow: Arts Administrators Hash it Out

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Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural." Here are three of my favorites.

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