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ORG Impact Awards Highlight Worldwide Achievement

The NonProfit Times

ORG Impact Awards last night at an annual celebration recognizing mission-driven individuals and organizations internationally. The winners of the.ORG Impact Awards are the very best of the.ORG Community and work tirelessly to create positive change every day.

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The Philanthropy That Jump-Started a Cure for Sickle Cell Disease

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Since 2008, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has awarded $35 million to research scientists focused on the disease. By Kay Dervishi A Sickle Cell patient receives treatment at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and stem Cell Research at University of California.

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Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

ProposalPRO

The overwhelming majority of government grants are awarded by a panel of outside reviewers, including 80% of the grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and over 90% of those awarded by the National Science Foundation or NSF (Bendiscioli, 2019). 2006, Graves et al., 2001, Abdoul et al.

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Spotlighting the State of Maryland

GrantNews

Walking became the State Exercise of Maryland on October 1, 2008. Additional Maryland Community & Economic Development Grants, and an Award Also, grants of up to $2,000 per project to eligible Maryland public school teachers and personnel for projects benefiting students. Jousting is the world’s oldest sport played on horses.

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Is the Diminishing Number of Donors an Issue for Fundraisers?

Penelope Burk

Looking at annual results over that forty-year period, giving was up in thirty-seven of those years, declining only three times [2] , and none of those declines can be blamed on fundraisers (1987 stock market crash, 2008 sub-prime mortgage debacle and associated crash into a recession; 2009 continuing recession.)

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM. Wild Apricot Updates - June 2008. June 2008 (9). May 2008 (9). April 2008 (14). March 2008 (15). February 2008 (15). January 2008 (17). Copyright © 2008. Accessibility.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: DIY Blogging

Tech Soup

In 2008 she decided to integrate blogging into her organization’s overall communications plan. Will Coley , Aquifer Media , designs social campaigns and digital storytelling for groups such as ACLU, the Freedom from Fear awards, Rights Working Group, and Public Interest Projects.