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In Texas, ‘water is the new oil’ as cities square off over aquifers that may soon dry out

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In Central Texas, a bitter fight over a $1 billion water project offers a preview of the future for much of the state as decades of rapid growth push past the local limits of its most vital natural resource. The site of a water pipeline project by the company Recharge through Lee County into Williamson County is pictured on March 28.

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22 Online Gift Stores That Benefit Nonprofits

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The National Retail Federation predicts that holiday sales this year will increase 4.1 National Geographic Store. National Geographic’s mission is to inspire people to care about the planet—and every living creature on it bu promoting and funding natural and cultural conservation projects. percent to $586.1

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

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That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. National MS Society :: @ MSSociety.

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50 Nonprofits Every U.S. Politican Should Follow on Twitter

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They are active in our communities, in our schools, and have valuable knowledge and experience that our nation’s elected officials could learn from and be inspired by, and yet very few U.S. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People :: @ NAACP. National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy :: @ TheNC.

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10 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits

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Gifts range from symbolic adopt-an-acre of a national park gifts to funding a classroom project in a low-income community. They also make excellent gifts for activists and advocates of global development, environmental conservation, and wildlife protection. . Nature Conservancy Gifts of Nature. GlobalGiving Gift Cards.

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10 Nonprofit Mobile Websites

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National Public Radio. Dolphin Communication Project. National Geographic. National Wildlife Federation. National Wildlife Federation. The Nature Conservancy. It becomes immediately clear that the design principles and purpose of nonprofit mobile websites are quite different from desktop sites. m.npr.org.

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The New Miradi

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So we’re especially proud to announce the launch of Miradi version 3, the enhanced version of our user-friendly environmental conservation software. Miradi gives conservation planners cutting edge tools to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects.