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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The other recipient this year was Kay Ferrell, Professor of Special Education at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, who won the Medal for her tremendous work with and on behalf of children and youth who are blind and visually impaired. We were following in his footsteps, on a path he helped create! Washington?

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to speak at the Minnesota Council for Nonprofits annual conference; and after my presentation, I spent a couple hours speaking with folks from various nonprofits, vendors and service organizations. I want to start, first, with a story…. Another barrier is the idea that we are all so different.

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

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Then — as a first-generation college student — she received her undergraduate and graduate degrees. A High Achiever in Pursuit of Education The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation opens doors for low-income, high-achieving students to access a quality education. By creative, I mean it’s not just in Minnesota, it is national.

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Empowering Faith-Based Organizations With Innovative Donor Management

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Thomas More Catholic Newman Center, the Catholic campus ministry at Minnesota State University, Mankato, needed a solution that offered mobility to support the spiritual development of approximately 4,000 college students during a critical transitional time of their lives. “I

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10 Volunteer Training Ideas for Onboarding All Types of Volunteers

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Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. Mary’s University of Minnesota. and those you serve.

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Happy Birthday! The Charitable Deduction Turns 100

ASU Lodestar Center

I tell my students that the deduction is a “tool of government”: the federal government gives us financial incentives to spend our money in certain productive ways. in organizational sociology at the University of Minnesota with a study of the causes of nonprofit organization closure. Hager earned his Ph.D.

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Weekly update from PND

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170 million in challenge grants for low-income, undocumented students. September 30, 2021 The Schuler Education Foundation has awarded a first round of challenge grants totaling $170 million to five colleges in support of financial aid for low-income and/or undocumented students. A weekly update with the latest news from PND.

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