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How to find free things: nonprofit students edition 

Candid

As a nonprofit management student, preparing to enter this field can be challenging because it’s still developing. The University of San Francisco was the first school to offer a Master’s in Nonprofit Administration less than 40 years ago, and the first School of Philanthropy was created just nine years ago at Indiana University.

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Jury Is Out On Philanthropy And Medical Debt

The NonProfit Times

That’s the conclusion reached by a team of researchers from the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts after completing a study in partnership with RIP Medical Debt, a New York City charity that buys and cancels medical debt.

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Youth Programs

Kindful

Many foundations focus much of their philanthropy work on youth empowerment—and for good reason. For over thirty years, they’ve been finding, fueling, and creating the most impactful and scalable solutions to lift families out of poverty in New York City. Areas served: New York City.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Lavelle Fund exemplifies the tremendous social return that bold philanthropy can create. It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students. In Philanthropy. Social Impact Through Digital Games.

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What are the nonprofit management implications of Pay for Success programs?

ASU Lodestar Center

Entering into a rigorous, time-intensive pay for success contract is likely a better plan if a program is not brand new. The Rikers Island pay for success program was rooted in evidence-based research, but had never been operated by the service provider in as complex a setting as the New York City prison (MDRC, 2015).

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The 5 Best Social Impact Games of 2010

NTEN

The most surprising group to create, share and promote original content is middle and high school students. We are in the process of preparing our 8th Annual Games for Change Festival (June 20-22) where the worlds of game making, media, philanthropy, academia and social impact meet.

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