VisionLink

OCTOBER 16, 2015

VisionLink would like to congratulate the Member Agencies of the West Virginia Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) on receiving the Governor’s Service Award. The award honors WV VOAD’s dedication to service and acknowledges their commitment to volunteerism throughout West Virginia. The West Virginia VOAD connects various organizations enabling them to work together during disaster, providing response, relief, and recovery.

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AFP Blog

MAY 16, 2011

Computer Centers in West Virginia's Volunteer Fire Stations | PCWorld : "West Virginia is leading the nation in technology innovation. West Virginia has come up with the idea of providing computer access at volunteer fire and rescue departments and has received a Federal Broadband Technology Opportunities Program grant to put its ideas into practice

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Disaster Relief Of A Different Kind - West Virginia Headline News and Talk Radio : Seventeen West Virginia Office of Technology employees are working long hours in Louisiana lending an IT helping hand following what Hurricane Isaac left behind.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

» Friday Feb 01 2008 Join WVU for Integrated Marketing Degree Information Session Friday, February 1, 2008 at 02:28PM | by James OMalley West Virginia Universitys integrated marketing communications program is holding an information reception for communications professionals in DC interested in an online graduate degree in integrated marketing. Who should attend: Professional communicators in DC Sponsor: IMC Program at West Virginia University Questions?:

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Candid

MAY 24, 2022

West Virginia. Virginia. Equal Pay Day is a symbolic day created by the National Committee on Pay Equity to increase awareness about the gender wage gap.

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VisionLink

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

States participating in the Complete College America Strategic Planning Academy are: California Hawaii Illinois New Mexico Ohio Oklahoma West Virginia VisionLink is proud to partner with the Complete College America and believe that “We all work better by working together”. VisionLink’s unique Strategic Advantage consulting department is proud to be supporting the Complete College America Strategic Planning Academy (CCA).

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Whole Whale

MAY 23, 2022

It is believed that the origin of Father’s Day can be traced back to a Sunday School teacher in Fairmont, West Virginia. Father’s Day is a great day to plan a fun fundraising campaign to honor the Dads in our community.

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EveryAction

MAY 16, 2018

The Village Network is a behavioral health organization helping youth and families in Ohio and West Virginia become healthy and have brighter futures. Approximately 1 in 5 American adults experiences some sort of mental illness in any given year. Since 1949, May has been observed as Mental Health Awareness month to bring attention the ongoing need for proper support and health care services for those affected.

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Tech Soup Blog

APRIL 9, 2015

It's probably no accident that Chestnut Ridge Church has become the largest church in West Virginia. Chestnut Ridge Church is a big independent evangelical church in Morgantown, West Virginia. Members of the congregation get together for family-friendly potlucks to watch West Virginia University games on the big screens. The church stages big-name contemporary-Christian concerts with artists like Matthew West and Colton Dixon of American Idol fame.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 11, 2015

This next proposal, written by Julie Colaw, was fully funded through the West Virginia NASA Space Grant Consortium. Nonprofits are turning more and more toward grants as a source of funding for their causes, and that’s not a bad idea—if and only if you can devote the necessary time and energy into it. Here’s a bit of rough, straight shootin’ life advice for you: you’ll probably get shot down the first time. You’re going to mess something up.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 6, 2010

The show takes place in Huntington, West Virginia, one of the country's "fattest" and "unhealthiest" cities. My favorite TV show right now is Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. Yes, it has reality show moments (really, did the high school students have to cook a meal for 80 people after a week of training?), but its message is clear: we need to return to eating real (unprocessed) food, and to cooking from scratch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

Another feature of the program will be Safe America’s recruitment of First Ladies/Spouses in ALL 50 states to lead local, state educational efforts — building on West Virginia First Lady Gayle Manchin and her husband, Governor and Senator-Elect Joe Manchin’s efforts that reached 40 states in 2010 and had the active involvement of Governors and First Spouses in Kentucky, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Washington state, West Virginia, Iowa, Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Utah and Tennessee.”.

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Tech Soup Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

In rural Boone County, West Virginia, Jennifer Massey bathes her children in contaminated water. I grew up on a farm in Minnesota. My mother was from the area, but my father was from Missouri. I don't know how much you know about Missouri, but I bet you know this: Missouri is the Show Me State. My father, however, was the "tell me" father. Never an evening meal went by that we weren't all encouraged to tell what happened with our day.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

JER HR Group has produced a delightful and informative curated paper tackling some of the most important—and challenging—HR issues facing leaders and HR executives today. David Moff, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, writes on how to best build trust between the HR team and employees in Jumping the HR Trust Barrier.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 7, 2016

Virginia. Virginia charitable registration: $100. $30-$325 West Virginia. West Virginia charitable registration: $15-50, depending on type of organization ($0 if exempt). The process of starting a nonprofit requires a fair amount of savvy and know-how. Building from the ground up, it’s often difficult knowing where to start. Questions arise like “What do I need” and “Why do I need it?”

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

In the United States, for example, products are made by women from The Enterprising Kitchen and WomanCraft in Chicago, Women's Bean Project in Denver, Appalachian by Design in West Virginia, Thistle Farms in Nashville and Rosie's Place in Boston. According to a recent article in Muncie, Indiana's Star Press , "the National Retail Federation expects the average consumer to spend $791.10 this holiday season, up from $738.11 last year."

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Meeting Walter the piglet - who fell off of a transport truck - during a recent visit to The Pig Sanctuary in West Virginia was truly one of my happiest days this year. I hope you've been enjoying my have fun do good guest blogger series as much as I am (: The tenth guest blogger in the series is Kimberly Wilson. Kimberly is a teacher, writer, do-gooder, entrepreneur, and eco-fashion designer currently obsessed with Paris, potbelly pigs, and all things sparkly.

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NTEN

JUNE 7, 2011

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. By Kari Ann Kiel, Event Marketing Consultant, DoJiggy. There are so many ways to raise money for your nonprofit or charitable cause. Sales-based fundraisers, for example, bring in money through selling products or discount cards.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 6, 2008

Primarily, mountaintop removal is occurring in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee. iLoveMountains.org is a campaign to stop mountaintop removal for coal mining. What is mountaintop removal you ask? From the iLoveMountains.org web site: "Mountaintop removal is a relatively new type of coal mining that began in Appalachia in the 1970s as an extension of conventional strip mining techniques.

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See3

AUGUST 23, 2007

It’s called mountaintop removal and it is the most common mining in West Virginia and Appalachia generally. Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman AUG 23, 2007 Mountaintop Mining – Seeing is rejecting.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2007

The phenomenal woman with the giant CODEPINK truck, Sam Zanne Joi, and I traveled through the deep South and Southwest, weaving our way through little towns in the Appalachian mountains with names like War, West Virginia, and Truth and Consequences, Texas. According to UNIFEM's, "Gender Profile-Iraq-Women, War & Peace," : "[M]ore than 90 women become widows each day due to continuing violence countrywide.

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