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I Was a Fan of This Nonprofit. Then I Wasn't. What I Discovered When I Checked Up On Them

Selfish Giving

Then, in 2015, the Wall Street Journal published an article that unnerved me. Then, earlier this week, I ran across a post on the Walmart Blog on the retailer's work with WAA to help transport 100,000 wreaths to national cemeteries across the country. I couldn't say enough good things about them. So I stopped talking about WAA.

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Grant Writing Tip: Using federal grants to fund building or purchasing/renovating a building

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

Community infrastructure projects are wide-ranging and can include transportation projects or community facilities including schools, hospitals, fire, police, and other emergency response services. Construction and renovation costs are eligible. Foundations are often a better source of capital funding for facilities than government grants.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

PC shipments in 2015 will be 52 percent higher than PC shipments in 2010. Forrester Research has also found that total shipments of desktop and laptop computers will continue to rise through 2015. Another Gartner study found that export tariffs and high transportation costs tend to restrict secondary PC markets.

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Should You Migrate Your Nonprofit's Website to HTTPS?

Tech Soup

The newest protocol actually changed the name of these to Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates, but everybody still likes saying SSL. Tellingly, Mozilla is one of many companies behind the recently announced Let's Encrypt initiative to provide free security certificates for all.

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Spotlight State: Delaware

GrantNews

At one point, it was the world’s largest chemical company , before mergers between 2015 and 2017. Funding is to promote economic development and encourage construction, renovation, or other improvements to roads and transportation infrastructure. The DuPont Company was founded in 1802 and was initially a gunpowder mill.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

PC shipments in 2015 will be 52 percent higher than PC shipments in 2010. Forrester Research has also found that total shipments of desktop and laptop computers will continue to rise through 2015. Another Gartner study found that export tariffs and high transportation costs tend to restrict secondary PC markets.

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Turning City Data into Apps with Apps4Warsaw

Tech Soup

The most popular datasets were the transportation datasets. And despite the trend of using transportation data, the chosen winners were diverse and creative, and supported a range of different needs and uses in Warsaw. The Road to Becoming a Finalist … and Creating a Winning App.