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New Families Initiative to Help Neediest NY Homeless Parents, Children
The Jericho Project, a nationally acclaimed nonprofit ending homelessness at its roots, today announced its new Families Initiative to create stability for New York’s most vulnerable homeless families by providing affordable, stable apartments and success-oriented counseling. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Human services
State Income Taxes Push Many Working-Poor Families Deeper Into Poverty
Thirteen states taxed working-poor families deeper into poverty last year, according to a new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. In some of those states, poor families faced several hundred dollars in state income taxes — a significant amount for a family struggling to make ends meet, the report said. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Human services, Public works and advocacy
Coalition of Foundations to Invest $506 Million in Education Innovation
A coalition of private foundations plans to offer up to half a billion dollars to leverage government efforts to encourage education reform, the Associated Press reports. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Education (K-12, and higher education), General fundraising
Elementary School Children Raise Funds for Clean Drinking Water
A single donation of 50 cents can go a long way. This was the discovery of one elementary school that worked with Water For People, a Denver-based nonprofit organization, to raise funds for clean drinking water in Central America. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Human services
AFP, ThePort Network Provide New Social Communications Tools to Fundraisers
The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) announces a partnership with ThePort Network to offer its members and chapters new and powerful social media tools and education. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, General fundraising
Charities Review Council Launches Revised Accountability Standards
The Charities Review Council, an independent resource for people who support charities with financial donations, announces the launch of revised Accountability Standards, implemented by charities through an updated online Accountability Wizard review process. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, General fundraising
America’s Cities Show Success Fighting for Air
The American Lung Association’s State of the Air 2010 report finds that a decade of cleanup measures to reductions in emissions from coal-fired powered plants and the transition to cleaner diesel fuels and engines have paid off in cutting levels of deadly particle and ozone pollution, especially in eastern and midwestern U.S. cities, including Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, New York City, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Washington, DC/Baltimore, MD. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Environment
Durham Arts Walk the Walk
This April, the advertising for Durham’s free, two-day Art Walk consists itself of original “artwork”—fifty pieces worth—the individual creations of enthusiastic, if less-than-master, volunteer craftsmen. The campaign was conceived and directed by advertising agency, The Republik, Durham. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Arts, Culture & Humanities, Featured
Council on Foundations’ Highest Award Goes to National Fund for Workforce Solutions
Today, the National Fund for Workforce Solutions received the Distinguished Grantmaking Award for Collaboration from the Council on Foundations, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit membership association of some 2,000 grantmaking foundations and corporations. … Read entire article »
Filed under: PNNOnline Various
Kaiser Permanente Approves $7 Million in Community Benefit Grants
Kaiser Permanente, one of America’s leading health care providers and nonprofit health plans, announced today it approved more than 250 grants and donations nationwide totaling approximately $7 million in the first quarter of 2010. The grants focused on expanding access to nutritious food, providing safe spaces for all ages to increase physical activity, increasing opportunities for continuing education, and eliminating health disparities. … Read entire article »
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