Jessica Cooper, RD, CD, CSSD , is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. She currently serves on the executive team for Plant Based Utah, a nonprofit organization with a mission to educate the community on healthy eating. In her spare time, she is also a volunteer leader for Girl Scouts of Utah as well as an avid long-distance runner Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. MORE

Looking at giving to other charities you then find out that she and her husband have collectively donated over $50,000 each to their university and other organizations around the country. Her current donor profile shows her address in the next town, but with the screening you learn she actually has another home in the upstate, and a vacation home in Utah. MORE

I just got back form the Economic Self-Reliance Conference at Brigham Young University in Utah. When I attend conferences to give a keynote, I usually try to stick around for more of the conference and listen in to the other presenters. This practice was especially awarded at the ESR conference. David Wiley's keynote was on the social returns from a new venture he helped create, Flat World Knowledge. MORE

So for example a member could email me and say "hey, I'm in the middle of Utah and I'm a member and I'd like to find other people near me". We're definitely trying to bring in our members to the digital universe that we live in as staff so that we're working together on our various efforts. This month, our EveryAction hero is Jewish Voice for Peace. MORE

Utah’s tourism slogan captures the physical wonders of our state, which has some of the best skiing, highest deserts and deepest canyons in the world. Utah has the highest birth rate in the country (88 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44) and the youngest population – almost a third of Utahns are under the age of 18. Utah is dead last in the nation for education funding per pupil. Voices for Utah Children recently helped host a conference on. MORE

Organizations such as University of Utah Health and Geisinger Health have pioneered approaches that include posting even negative physician reviews online. [ix] “How motivated are they to take an active role in their own well-being? That’s the ultimate goal of health care — to have the most engaged patient you possibly can, to get the best possible outcome. In other words, the best way to have an engaged patient is to give them a great patient experience.” ” [i]. MORE

from the George Washington School of Law, and his undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Utah. VisionLink is honored to welcome yet another resident specialist to our ever-growing VisionLink team. As the new Disaster Product Manager for VisionLink, Aaron comes from an extensive and distinguished background. MORE

Manny Hernandez who shared his fundraising secrets for Tubiabetes.com Amy Yu and Christine Lin from Asian Liver Center at Stanford University. Robin Pratt from the Utah Nonprofit Association who will read it, apply to strategy, and then put in their library for nonprofits around the state to read. That's some of the schwag and a copy of Shel Israels's Twitterville that I purchased at last night's #tbash , the launch party for the book. MORE

I even made some gaffes--for example, confusing the University of Texas natural history museum with the Utah natural history museum (the "UT" slipped me up)--but they took it in stride, continuing the conversation without embarrassing me. The afternoon of September 24 was hectic. I called in to participate in a radio show in Seattle , then zoomed downtown for meetings, after which I headed home to cook for a dinner party. MORE

Only two of the ten most generous states (Utah and Arkansas) had higher state and local tax burdens than Arizona. Research by Ross Gittell at the University of New Hampshire suggests that the main factors influencing household giving include personal income, capital gains, religious group affiliation, age, volunteerism, and educational attainment. [1] posted by. Marissa Theisen , President & CEO. Arizona Grantmakers Forum. MORE

Orem, Utah: QuickBooks Made Easy. Salt Lake City, Utah: QuickBooks Made Easy. Douala, Cameroon: Strengthening the Capacity of Female University Dropouts. Buéa, Cameroon: Strengthening the Capacity of Female University Dropouts. Here's your monthly roundup of free in-person #Tech4Good events. But first I'm going to show off on behalf of our NetSquared organizers. MORE