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37 Spring Fundraising Ideas for Small Nonprofits

Whole Whale

Patrick’s Day Green (March 17). The Persian New Year coincides with the March equinox and is celebrated around the world (including the 1 million Iranian-Americans living in the United States). Over 30 fundraising ideas for spring, from daylight savings time to National Haiku Day. Click To Tweet. The winner gets the chocolate.

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Turning Waste into Beautiful Art

Tech Soup

In the United States, we generated over 251 million tons of trash in 2006, the most recent year recorded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). .' When we throw anything away it must go somewhere." " — Annie Leonard. Throw-Away Society.

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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

During her summer internship, she has been developing the business plan for Bookshare International, which will bring the benefits of reading to people with print disabilities outside of the United States. When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children. His specialty: user testing.

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Women's Earth Alliance: Co-Directors Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond

Have Fun - Do Good

Women hold these toxins in their body, and this is what they have to pass on to their children. It is about a future that is possible for their children, and for future generations. I remember being seven years old and learning about the Vietnam War and writing a letter to the President of the United States.

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

Have Fun - Do Good

In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now. We'll be taking with arts activist Alli Chagi-Starr, the Cultural Arts Director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights ' Reclaim the Future Program.

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