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Marguerite Casey Foundation Launches ‘Public Dollars for Public Good’ Program

NonProfit PRO

Marguerite Casey Foundation launched its “Public Dollars for Public Goods” initiative. The Foundation is investing more than $5M to support organizations that leverage community organizing to shift power by helping underserved communities access federal and local funding and control how those funds are spent.

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NPR CEO Katherine Maher makes the case for why public radio is essential to American democracy

Fast Company Tech

Tomorrow, NPRs CEO Katherine Maher goes before a DOGE congressional subcommittee to defend the public media outlets case for federal funding. I think that that’s something that often gets lost in the conversation about public radio is the overall percentage of funds that go directly to local stations. We love This American Life.

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WDA Launches Community Practice Focused on Public and Nonprofit Sector Clients

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William Duff Architects expands its market reach with the launch of its community practice, complementing its residential, commercial, and hospitality practices. The launch enables the company to provide support to public and nonprofit sector clients.

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Connecting the Dots: Strengthening Communities Through Public-Private-Nonprofit Partnerships

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Our corporate partners and the public school districts with which we partner are very different tools. As a nonprofit, DAE simply could not have created what we have as rapidly as we have using the single-use tool that a nonprofit is. Collectively, however, we are a complete intervention.

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Supporting Native communities is about listening and relationships

Candid

The Northwest Area Foundation has been a longtime funder of Native communities. We’ve come to understand that Native communities need to determine their own futures, not funders. The commitment is an intentional public pledge to stand alongside Native communities. Native communities view prosperity differently.

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Facebook, Instagram beta testing Community Notes in the U.S.

Mashable Tech

Meta will soon roll out its new fact-checking replacement , Community Notes, a crowd-sourced tool that will sunset the company's third party fact-checking team in favor of what Meta alleges is a "less biased" way to curb misinformation. users on March 18, but Community Notes won't yet appear to the public while in beta testing.

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This simple solution could help solve the public restroom crisis

Fast Company Tech

In Little Tokyo, there are almost no public restroomsin most of the restaurants and shops, you have to buy something first. After years of complaints from riders, LA Metro is rolling out more free public Throne bathrooms this year at transit stations across L.A. a public transportation advocate with the L.A. But overall, nice.

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