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Research Friday: Strengthening the Economy through Civic Engagement

ASU Lodestar Center

A recent report authored by several partner organizations, including the National Conference on Citizenship , CIRCLE , Civic Enterprises , the Saguaro Seminar , and the National Constitution Center suggests that there may be a correlation between civic engagement and the unemployment rate. Attending public meetings.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On The Environment And Conservation Efforts

Kindful

National Forest Foundation. First Nations Development Institute. The Green Climate Fund is the world’s largest climate fund, mandated to support developing countries raise and realize their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) ambitions towards low-emissions, climate-resilient pathways. National Forest Foundation.

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Nonprofit Organizational Culture Eats Big Data for Lunch

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His views on the philanthropic world have appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , USA Today , The Los Angeles Times , and on National Public Radio. Steve MacLaughlin is a Director of Analytics at Blackbaud and is considered an expert on the nonprofit sector.

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How Indigenous Peoples’ Day is Supplanting Columbus Day

Whole Whale

Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday. 1946: The United Nations Charter is signed, without any mention of indigenous peoples. 1972: The United Nations finally recognizes the rights of indigenous people with the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities.

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Democrats want a truce with Section 230 supporters

The Verge

The bill is co-sponsored by Republican John Thune of South Dakota, and some Republican lawmakers probed the nuances of internet law. There’s a broad consensus that Section 230 as it currently exists no longer affords sufficient protection to the public,” he said.

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Nearly half of National Weather Service offices are critically understaffed amid surge in severe weather

Fast Company Tech

After Trump administration job cuts , nearly half of National Weather Service forecast offices have 20% vacancy rates twice that of just a decade ago as severe weather chugs across the nation’s heartland , according to data obtained by The Associated Press. Ten years later, as of March 21, it was 19%.

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Meet the lieutenant governor pushing Democrats to get serious about weed

The Verge

Pennsylvania’s unorthodox Lieutenant Governor has established himself as a kind of unofficial spokesman for the state’s efforts to legalize the drug, both in his public statements and on his Twitter feed. Some of that enthusiasm has trickled up to the national level. the unambiguous winner in November of 2020 was weed.”.