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A Nonprofit Partnership: How One Board Member Connected Two Organizations and Boosted Both

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Meet Natasha Piñeiros Natasha Piñeiros grew up in Ecuador and moved to New Jersey at 13 years old. After college, she began a job as a Dean of Scholar Support at the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. As a new board member of Mary’s Pence, Natasha was ready to make a difference.

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Balancing Personal and Organizational Brand: Networked Leadership

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Earlier this month, I facilitated a workshop for leaders of community foundations in New Jersey for the Knight Digital Media Center on the topic of practical network leadership skills. The workshop covers several topics including: Understanding the networked mindset.

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[Breaking News] An Extraordinary Funding Opportunity For Nonprofits To Preserve Local Journalism

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Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward. Press Forward seeks to stop and reverse that trend.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

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We are starting a movement that has love at the very foundation. At 19, New Jersey native Maggie Doyne used her life savings from babysitting to start Kopila Valley children’s home in Nepal, which has grown to a home for over 40 children, and a school serving over 200 students. Join me in sharing the love.

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Measuring the Networked Nonprofit” is 2013 Terry McAdam Book Award Finalist

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The award committee is now in process of reviewing the finalist selections to identify the 2013 winner of the award, which will be announced and presented at “Grown Locally, Practiced Nationally: A Conference That Builds Research-Based Practice,” the Alliance annual conference in Newark, New Jersey, August 7-9, 2013.

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How You Can Help The People of Ukraine Right Now

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Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey. Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation. Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation is raising funds to support humanitarian causes aimed to support refugees from Eastern Ukraine. International Rescue Committee. UN Refugee Agency.

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Black Innovation Alliance, Village Capital team up to support founders of color

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The initial coalition includes Moody’s, The Sorenson Impact Foundation, Travelers and UBS. In related news, on Tuesday we covered New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s proposal for a $10 million allocation in the state budget to create a seed fund for Black and Latinx startups.

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