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Protecting Arizona's Family Coalition. Nonprofits fight poverty, provide great venues for art and music, challenge homelessness, help organize civic life, promote the common good and a host of other functions that puts human community and the common good before profits and a narrow band of investors. Schmaltz , ASU Lodestar Center.
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in journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and a M.P.A. in nonprofit management and policy analysis from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Lindsay Walker is a fundraising consultant. She earned a B.A.
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