Results List
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TIME MAGAZINE PUTS VOLUNTEERMATCH IN ITS TOP 10 FOR 2007
Pioneering nonprofit Web service included in list of happening consumer destinations. (San Francisco, CA) – TIME Magazine has selected VolunteerMatch.org as one of the year’s Top 10 Web sites in the magazine’s annual survey of news, business and cultural touchstones for the year. In her…
Author: VolunteerMatch
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National Community Service Initiative Launched, Leveraged by Organizations Across the Country
Original Source America’s Promise Alliance, the United Way, and the Huffington Post are Atlantic grantees. The Corporation for National and Community Service has announced that it will lead a national, twelve-week initiative developed by the Obama administration to stimulate economic growth and encourage community service…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Obama to Sign Landmark National-Service Measure on Tuesday
Original Source By Suzanne Perry The nonprofit world will take a break from its economic woes and celebrate a big political victory on Tuesday when President Obama signs landmark legislation that boosts national service, volunteerism, and innovative social projects. The president, fulfilling a campaign pledge…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Help for the Helpers
OUR VIEW: AS BALTIMORE’S EXPERIENCE SUGGESTS, A NEW NATIONAL SERVICE PROGRAM WOULD OFFER DIVIDENDS ACROSS THE AGES 27 Sep 2008 When Shirley Cherry was helping out at Guilford Elementary School a couple of years ago, a boy spoke rudely to her, and his teacher made…
Author: The Baltimore Sun
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ReServe Explores Sharing its Model with Other Nonprofits
Original Source Retirees looking for meaning and ways to use their skills and experience and nonprofits looking for seasoned talent have been slow to connect. But their parallel paths are now bending into arcs that create can-do circles, and ReServe, with a grant from the…
Author: ReServe
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Charitable Giving Is Soaring — But Is It Effective?
Philanthropic donations are booming, but post-Great Recession poverty and inequity remain. By Martin Michaels Year after year, the citizenry of the U.S. continues to be one of the most altruistic on earth, volunteering an average of 7.85 billion volunteer hours according to a report by the Corporation for…
Author: MintPress News
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The opposite of greed
By Carol Paton. Jay Naidoo, co-founder of investment holding company J&J Group, has given away a third of his wealth to charitable causes — echoing the “giving campaign” of US billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. Naidoo, who with fellow former trade unionist Jayendra Naidoo,…
Author: Financial Mail
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The Strengthening of Atlantic’s Social Justice Mission: What It Means for Our Funding
I’ve just returned from Denver, Colorado, where the annual conference of the Council on Foundations ended Tuesday. A significant theme of the conference this year, which Atlantic helped to organise, was what foundations can do to advance social justice. I was honoured to moderate a…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Young Grant Makers Urged to Make Bigger and Riskier Grants
By Caroline Preston. Nonprofit groups say it takes them 25 to 30 hours to apply for a grant. Yet most of the grants being awarded are probably $15,000 or less. That’s much of what’s wrong with philanthropy today, Bill Somerville, founder of Philanthropic Ventures…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Why Mature Activism May Save the Planet
Original Source AARP and Civic Ventures are Atlantic grantees. By: Rob Gurwitt It was not a promising start. Getting ready to head out for the Utah wilderness, Lee Verner had packed her clothes in a black bag, laid it down on a black chair and…
Author: AARP Bulletin Today
