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I Have a Dream Foundation will launch fourth Dreamer class in April

March 26, 2014

By Whitney Bryen As one class of Longmont “Dreamers” prepares to graduate this spring, another is just getting started. Boulder County’s I Have a Dream…

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Record-Breaking $6.8 Million Raised by Rite Aid for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals

March 25, 2014

Source: Press Release Point CAMP HILL, Pa. (March 24, 2014) – Rite Aid announced today that through its year-long fundraising efforts, the Company raised $6.8…

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“A Murder for Murder Cannot be Justice”

March 25, 2014

Source: Amnesty International USA “A murder for murder cannot be justice,” Mani told me as we walked down the corridor of the school he went to…

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New Chief Scientific Officer to Lead Research Efforts for Morris Animal Foundation

March 25, 2014

Source: Morris Animal Foundation From Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital to Morris Animal Foundation, Diane Brown, DVM, PhD, DACVP, returns to Colorado as the…

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Housing the Homeless is Actually Cheaper Than Doing Nothing

March 25, 2014

Source: The Huffington Post It’s cheaper to give homeless men and women a permanent place to live than to leave them on the streets. That’s…

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SPLC Testifies About Worker Abuse in U.S. Plants

March 25, 2014

Source: Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) The human rights of U.S. meat and poultry workers are being routinely violated in plants where workers suffer crippling…

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From the Teachers’ Lounge to Capitol Hill

March 25, 2014

Source: TeacherPop Like any large-scale education reform, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are bound to have both benefits and drawbacks—so using blanket statements like…

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Sense of Smell & Training Make Service Dogs Life-saving Best Friends

March 25, 2014

>> Watch the Video Above Terri Lubaroff wishes she had a dramatic story to tell about her unusual service dog, Jackson, such as an incident…

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Contribute to the Field! Take The State of Grantseeking Survey

March 21, 2014

Source: GrantStation You can help the grantseeking community stay on top of trends through the semi-annual State of Grantseeking report. The State of Grantseeking reports…

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Finance Park Provides Students Experience of Making Real Life Financial Management Decisions

March 21, 2014

With over 1.5 million nonprofit organizations in the United States, who should you support and why?  The purpose of this blog is to help you discover…

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Strategies Like Shared Value Must Become Internalized by Employees to Effect Lasting Change

March 20, 2014

Source: Realized Worth Today’s corporations not only have the unique opportunity to address social and environmental concerns, but the public has given them a mandate to…

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America’s Charities Receives US Collective Impact Award at Ideagen Summit

March 19, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 19, 2014 /3BL Media/ – Ideagen, a cross sector, collective impact network where the world’s leading organizations convene to innovate and collaborate, hosted…

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