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The Ultimate Nonprofit SharePoint App: The Case Management Database of Children's Network of Solano County

Tech Soup

It secures funding for children’s services and programs, influences policy at the local and state level, helps families get services, and collects and publishes data on the health, safety and well-being of Solano County children.

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

Tech Soup

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. We had distributed more than 25,000 computers to 1,000+ nonprofits.

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Describing DEIB in Relation to Organizational Leadership

Grant Professionals Association

Clients engage with staff on a daily basis to run the organization, make decisions, set policy, and influence programming. We also explain that the state does not fund outreach to reach diverse, underserved populations with mental illness: homeless, court-involved, etc., and why private funding is needed. link] : U.S.

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Are you ready to age while working in academia?

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

The ACL funds over 600 Area Agencies on Agencies (AAA) across America, which is turn fund local nonprofit and public service providers. And the 2008 financial collapse saw the devastation of stable middle class jobs in favor of part-time, low wage work ( McCallum , 2020). Navigating policies in any workplace can be challenging.

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Nonprofit Technology News Celebrity Forecasts for 2014

Tech Soup

She is the 2010 NTEN Award Winner and was named to the NonProfit Times list of the 50 most influential people in the charitable sector in 2008. And now very for Lucy’s most mysterious prediction: we will have a major scandal in the crowd funding marketplace. She’s one of our great forward-thinking people at TechSoup Global.

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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. While the timeline of a grant – from the initial call for proposals or opportunity listing to actually receiving the funding – can take months, it still goes faster than academic projects.

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