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Food Bank For New York City: Working to End Hunger since 1983

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It’s always encouraging to hear how food banks, like Food Bank For New York City , provide support and sustenance for the populations they serve – and in the case of New York City, that population is large indeed, with an estimated 1.6 million New Yorkers currently facing food insecurity.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. Areas served: New York City. State Street Foundation.

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I'll Text for Food

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are currently running a comments for food donation campaign for New York City Food Pantries. President-elect Obama pledged to end childhood hunger by 2015 during his presidential campaign. Share Our Strength is the leading national organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger in America.

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Why some school districts are spending big on schools tailor-made for 4-year-olds

Fast Company Tech

Nationally, districts of all sizes have embraced the trend over the past few years, including the Troy School District in Michigan and New York City Public Schools. Sign up for the Early Childhood newsletter. A traditional pre-K setting is more teacher led and teacher directed, she said.

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Belong @ DataRobot: Lunar New Year with the ACTnow! Community

DataRobot

Location: New York City, NY For me, Lunar New Year means family. My childhood memories of Lunar New Year are filled with joyful reunions with family members. If you are ever in Singapore or Malaysia, make sure you try it. Ray Mi – RVP Data Science Practice.

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What strategies can nonprofit leaders use to move program beneficiaries into program partners?

ASU Lodestar Center

Take it from Simeon Bankhoff, executive director of the Historic Districts Council in New York City, who said that involving your beneficiaries in organizational processes can be one of an organization’s core competencies if you make it a priority. Who wouldn’t want it to be with all of the benefits it brings forth?

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

Have Fun - Do Good

And if you can think of other new ideas, we'd love to hear from you. EP: We were both in publishing in New York City. When we went back to New York, Michael was suddenly out of a job and he looked for three days in New York, and then decided, "Gee, we should really live in California."