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Why I Left My Job to Go to Work for the Nonprofit Sector

Tech Soup

When I left, SDFF had a staff of 36 and a budget of $4.5 In 2008, with support from the California Emerging Technology Fund , we established a formal digital divide program and, with the help of our community partners, connected more than 10,000 previously disconnected homes to broadband Internet.

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Investing in the Infrastructure of Nonprofit Organizations

Tech Soup

" So wrote Cynthia Gibson, then of the Carnegie Corporation , and Nonprofit Quarterly Editor-in-Chief Ruth McCambridge in a 2008 special issue of that magazine dedicated to infrastructure. And we need advocacy for new levels of excellence and for policies that support our work. Others might focus on policy-oriented efforts.

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Leaving Academia With Dr. Julie Ann Ward, Dr. Stephanie Weaver, and Dr. Krista Kurlinkus

Grant Writing Made Easy

I started my PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley, in one of the more prestigious programs in my field, in 2008. I didn’t expect to be hired so quickly, and in February, I started working as a Development Director with an organization with an operating budget of over $1 million dollars.

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The Worried Fundraiser

Planned Giving

Policies shift, tax laws change, and rhetoric gets loud. This further proves that reliance on policy-driven benefits is risky. Planned giving isnt subject to the volatility of government budgets or the whims of political tides. But lets get one thing straight: Its not. Thats the nature of the game. Build stability.

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Trump Administration Pauses New Grant Agreements with Bombshell OMB Memo: Heavens to Murgatroyd!

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

This should not be a surpriseas President Obama famously stated in 2008: elections have consequences. Most nonprofits are engaged in human service delivery; grants for such purposes are not in the bullseye and are unlikely to become a budget target. ” when distressed. I doubt this will happen. [see

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