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Spotlight State: Connecticut

GrantNews

In 1806, Noah Webster , published “A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language.” ” First American Dictionary of the English Language published in 1828 and had 70,000 entries. The first phone book was published in CT on February 21, 1878 , just two years after the telephone was invented! and is in CT.

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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

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According to a guideline published by M+R, a useful quick test for your own messaging is to simply answer the question: If the subject of this story were to read it, how would they feel? Example: Sam came home from Afghanistan with PTSD that threatened his family, his job, and even his life.

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Summer Reading Recommendations from the TechSoup Community

Tech Soup

Here's what she recommended via Twitter: Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman — This cultural critique, originally published in 1991, presciently describes a society in which technology uses us (as opposed to a society that uses technology). Recommendations from Tech Impact.

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2012 Nonprofit Technology Year in Review

Tech Soup

Sam Laird on Mashable.com just published a complex infographic, in his piece, How Nonprofits Relied on Social Media in 2012. Places like the Irvine Foundation and Carnegie Corporation have joined the nonprofit tech community. I think it will be interesting. Social Media Really Does Work for Fundraising.

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Getting Your Paws On Office 365

Tech Soup

I bring you: Kitties and 6 Things I Learned About Microsoft Office 365 from Linda Widdop and Sam Chenkin of Tech Impact while attending an Office 365 Forum. Editor's note: a version of this post was originally published in October, 2014. How about a warmer, fluffier article about Office 365 Nonprofit? Literally. Register here.

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Find it Hard to Win Government Grants? Tell Uncle Sam

ProposalPRO

They’re asking for up to 20 pages of original suggestions, backed where possible by data, in response to questions published in the Federal Register Notice. If you submit comments, Uncle Sam may call you for a follow up conversation. Proposals are due Tuesday, July 6, 2021. PRO Tip: Thinking of responding?

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The Grants Transparency Act of 2023: Good idea or spitting in the wind?

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

One of the requirements of the bill is that evaluation criteria (weve often written about evaluations ) be published in the RFP, although many federal grant-making agencies already do so. If it takes your team 120 hours, youre doing something wronghire us or fire your team and find some competent staff.