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Somehow, 2018 Feels Different

Selfish Giving

2018 is only a few hours old and it already feels different to me. n : the act of finding an answer or solution to a conflict, problem So are you ready for me to tell you what my non-resolutions will be for 2018? Case in point, I wrote and published 49 blog posts last year, which is the lowest total in 8 years. Guess what?

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Reimagining the nonprofit annual report

Candid

While nonprofits are required to file annual tax forms disclosing their financials, we’re not required to publish donor lists, produce and mail expensive print pieces, or churn out all new, original content. We experimented with a mini-website for our 2018 report, but it was almost equally time-consuming and costly.

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Want Changes to Federal Grants? How to Make Your Voice Heard

ProposalPRO

Agencies will publish a notice in the Federal Register and call for public comments within a set period, usually lasting 30-60 days. At the end of the comment period the agency will publish in the Federal Register its response to original or substantive comments as well as its final rule. How Does it Work?

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Creating Better Concrete

HSF House

Finally, in the 2018 Zhai et al. A 2018 study, Shagaleh et al, further studies how biological cellulose, including cellulose nanofibers, can be used to synthesize other carbohydrate-based polymers (polysaccharides) that can be used as medicines and health-screening devices. 2, 2018, pp. Credit to Berglund et al. Materials , vol.

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Donors and “Marchers”: Build an Equitable Following With Major and Small Donors

Qgiv

Recently, the Chronicle of Philanthropy published the results of a study conducted by the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, and it’s worth highlighting some points: “For the first time in nearly two decades, only half of U.S. households donated to a charity in 2018,” according to a study released Tuesday. That number dropped to 49.6

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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

Candid

Candid and ABFE partnered to create and publish Philanthropy and HBCUs: Foundation funding to historically Black colleges and universities. This trend, however, was reversed in 2018 and 2019, when the proportion of general operating support funding increased significantly for HBCUs but not for the other higher education institutions.

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Extracting Cellulose: It’s All in the Details

HSF House

I hope to have my research published in a journal, and finding a successful extraction method and studying Sargassum CNFs should be sufficient, although I do hope we can reach the point where we can test with pervious concrete. This process is described in an article published in 2017. We may wind up comparing these methods.