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

Blue Avocado

Meet Natasha Piñeiros Natasha Piñeiros grew up in Ecuador and moved to New Jersey at 13 years old. Before she began working for the Cooke Foundation, as a student, Natasha had received a scholarship recipient from their program. Mary’s Pence accomplishes their work through two programs.

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

Bloomerang

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. What’s the problem? Press Forward seeks to stop and reverse that trend.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

Regardless of what work you are doing – campaigning for political change, providing services to your local community, educating others, or anything else – would it look different, would it feel different, would it operate differently if love was the central message? Are you fueling with love? To Mama With Love.

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Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But even with all that valuable experience, Kyle was stuck working double shifts at a local pizza joint. We at AmeriCorps Alums are working toward a solution by launching Employers of Service, a program exploring how we can link national service experience and a career pipeline. Chris Christie. Will you join us? Click here to register.

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

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Resource aims to give local accelerators and incubators support in the form of training and community. 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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Meadow expands beyond California, bringing its cannabis point of sale platform to Michigan

TechCrunch

” Meadow sees Michigan as a stepping stone to the East Coast, mainly New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. “New Jersey is just getting their feet on the ground. New York is sort of where everyone is eyeing how they will structure the regulations.” million since its founding.

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What donors love

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The Princeton Senior Resource Center (PSRC) in Princeton, New Jersey, with a Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency , under the leadership of Drew Dyson offers us a textbook case of how investment in professional development pays off. For him, the days of an ad hoc program in an old gym in the corner of a municipal building were over.

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