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Is Your Workplace Giving and Employee Engagement Strategy Delivering?
Part of the Charities@Work Blog Series Are you and your team working harder than ever to implement the latest workplace giving and employee engagement tactics, but not seeing the results you expected? It might be time to consider a fresh set of eyes and experience to help you realize the new opportunities and potential of…
Read MoreI Have a Dream Foundation will launch fourth Dreamer class in April
By Whitney Bryen As one class of Longmont “Dreamers” prepares to graduate this spring, another is just getting started. Boulder County’s I Have a Dream Foundation — a dropout prevention program for low-income students — is preparing to initiate 50 second-graders from Rocky Mountain Elementary School into Longmont’s fourth Dreamer class on April 29. The…
Read MoreRecord-Breaking $6.8 Million Raised by Rite Aid for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
Source: Press Release Point CAMP HILL, Pa. (March 24, 2014) – Rite Aid announced today that through its year-long fundraising efforts, the Company raised $6.8 million for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals in 2013, a record-breaking amount in the drugstore chain’s 19 years of support for the charity. The money raised by Rite Aid funds critical care, ground-breaking…
Read More“A Murder for Murder Cannot be Justice”
Source: Amnesty International USA “A murder for murder cannot be justice,” Mani told me as we walked down the corridor of the school he went to with his friend Simon some four decades ago. Mani still lives in the same village, while Simon has been on death row for nearly 10 years. Mani is a quiet…
Read MoreNew Chief Scientific Officer to Lead Research Efforts for Morris Animal Foundation
Source: Morris Animal Foundation From Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital to Morris Animal Foundation, Diane Brown, DVM, PhD, DACVP, returns to Colorado as the Foundation’s new chief scientific officer. Brown is a graduate of the veterinary school at Colorado State University. Since 2010, Dr. Brown has been working and teaching in the Department of…
Read MoreHousing the Homeless is Actually Cheaper Than Doing Nothing
Source: The Huffington Post It’s cheaper to give homeless men and women a permanent place to live than to leave them on the streets. That’s according to a study of an apartment complex for formerly homeless people in Charlotte, N.C., that found drastic savings on health care costs and incarceration. Moore Place houses 85 chronically…
Read MoreSPLC Testifies About Worker Abuse in U.S. Plants
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) The human rights of U.S. meat and poultry workers are being routinely violated in plants where workers suffer crippling injuries because of excessive work speeds allowed by the federal government, the SPLC testified today before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). During his testimony at an IACHR hearing in Washington,…
Read MoreFrom the Teachers’ Lounge to Capitol Hill
Source: TeacherPop Like any large-scale education reform, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are bound to have both benefits and drawbacks—so using blanket statements like “best thing since sliced bread” or “the ruin of the nation” aren’t all that productive. Whether the Common Core will have net positive or net negative effects in classrooms across…
Read MoreSense of Smell & Training Make Service Dogs Life-saving Best Friends
>> Watch the Video Above Terri Lubaroff wishes she had a dramatic story to tell about her unusual service dog, Jackson, such as an incident when his presence meant the difference between life and death. But she doesn’t. “That’s the point,” she said. “I don’t have the drama because I have Jackson.” Lubaroff was diagnosed…
Read MoreContribute to the Field! Take The State of Grantseeking Survey
Source: GrantStation You can help the grantseeking community stay on top of trends through the semi-annual State of Grantseeking report. The State of Grantseeking reports spotlight recent developments in funding so that organizations can be more strategic in their grantseeking. The free survey results, which will be published in late April, can serve as benchmarks for…
Read MoreFinance Park Provides Students Experience of Making Real Life Financial Management Decisions
With over 1.5 million nonprofit organizations in the United States, who should you support and why? The purpose of this blog is to help you discover and connect with some of America’s most trusted 501c3 nonprofits, so you can become more informed and invest your support in charities that are making a significant impact and changing…
Read MoreStrategies Like Shared Value Must Become Internalized by Employees to Effect Lasting Change
Source: Realized Worth Today’s corporations not only have the unique opportunity to address social and environmental concerns, but the public has given them a mandate to do so. The value created by companies must extend well beyond the restrictions of a financial evaluation. How is Transformative Value essential to achieving the ambitions of Blended Value and…
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