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February 7, 2012 From Pocono Record
Six young women in East Stroudsburg Area School District's U.N. Aspire group found themselves part of a real-life "Pay it Forward" after reading the award-winning book "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide," by New York Times columnist
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December 6, 2011 From Los Angeles Times
Ten NBC-owned television stations across the nation will team with nonprofit news outlets in an attempt to beef up their enterprise and analytical reporting, the network announced Monday.
NBC affiliates in Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia will work with non-commercial outfits in those cities —
November 22, 2011 From Joe Boland
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending the Association of Fundraising Professionals' National Philanthropy Day in New York to honor some of the fundraising sector's best and brightest — including FundRaising Success' very own editor-in-chief, Margaret Battistelli.
November 18, 2011 From Getting Attention!
Fundraising consultant Nancy Schwartz shares seven steps to take to motivate your network to take the actions you need
- Abstraction is deadly. Be concrete and specific.
- Feature a single individual, rather than a group or - far worse - daunting stats
November 15, 2011 From Today in Fundraising
Check out recent blog posts from The New York Times and The Nonprofit Quarterly.
November 15, 2011 From New York Times
ACTION Against Hunger, a nonprofit group that fights malnutrition, is running a public service ad campaign that uses nontraditional, abstract imagery, rather than photos of starving children, to gain support.
Instead of employing photographs of starving children, the ads take a different tack. One shows a line of
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November 2, 2011 From New York Times
While many Americans give generously to help people, many others make donations of a different sort: building museums to house their art collections; underwriting new wings in hospitals or halls named for them at their alma maters; using their money and influence to sway public policy
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September 28, 2011 From Today in Fundraising
Veteran fundraising consultant Tom Gaffny provided 10 timeless keys to fundraising success that he's crafted over the past two decades during his session, "The 10 Commandments: 10 Ageless, Irrefutable, Non-Negotiable Keys to Optimizing Your Fundraising Success," at the DMA Nonprofit Federation's 2011 New York Nonprofit Conference held last month.
September 14, 2011 From Chronicle of Philanthropy
Wal-Mart has committed $100-million in grants to nonprofit groups that provide job training to women as part of a $20-billion campaign to boost female economic development, according to The New York Times and the Associated Press.
The grants will support development of work and
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September 9, 2011 From Forbes
If you work at a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization you might want to start reaching out to Apple employees.
Apple Chief Tim Cook sent a note to Apple employees announcing the Cupertino, Calif.-based Mac maker will match its employees contributions to nonprofit organizations up to $10,000
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August 31, 2011 From New York Times
While Wall Street has slowly returned from the depths of the financial crisis, nonprofit groups that have come to depend on the industry’s donations are still struggling. With the global market turmoil and the threat of a double-dip recession, many big banks are clutching their cash
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August 26, 2011 From Chronicle of Philanthropy
While it certainly hasn’t reached a tipping point, the number of foundation chief executives using Twitter is growing — slowly.
Jeffrey Raikes, chief executive of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, started tweeting last month. His boss, Bill Gates, has
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July 21, 2011 From Today in Fundraising
On Wednesday evening, the Direct Marketing Association of Washington presented its annual MAXI Awards on the eve of the 2011 Bridge to Integrated Marketing and Fundraising Conference at the Gaylord National Resort in National Harbor, Md.
July 18, 2011 From News
MatchingDonors.com is asking the public to help raise awareness about being a living organ donor on MatchingDonors.com through their Everybody Can Save A Life Video Contest!
July 11, 2011 From Baltimore Sun
Donnie Andrews' life is one that David Simon and Ed Burns would have had to invent if he hadn't already lived it.
Andrews, the inspiration for the ruthless yet moral stickup man Omar Little in the Simon and Burns HBO series "The
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