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How one nonprofit commemorates enduring sibling relationships with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

It functions as an online memory book for surviving siblings. Any surviving sibling can go to SibsForever.org to create a no-cost account and build commemorative web pages for their sibling and sibling relationship, including photo and video galleries featuring themselves and their siblings.

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Twitter, Reading, and a Grant Conference; How I Found My People

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

I set up my account, quickly discovering that every version of my name was taken, so I settled on @wholewheatgirl – it’s what many of my coworkers called me, all because I have never uttered a curse word. Over the weeks I began to recognize many handles, particularly those who brought up books and reading.

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The Power of Relationships for the Lonely Grant Writer

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

If you listen to the Fundraising HayDay podcast or know me some other way, you will quickly learn that I am an EXTRA extrovert. Not so shocking note: though I haven’t worked there in over seven years, those two ladies are some of my favorite lunch dates and book club friends.) People are my passion, my jam, my lifeblood.

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CMC’s 50th Anniversary of Coeducation: Impacts of the Coeducational Transition on Institution Endowment

The Lowe Down

Figure 2: Median Book Value of Endowment for Liberal Arts Colleges The aging donor population of MTCs and the passing of early alumni suggest that their donations only made a significant impact initially. This suggests that the MTC institutions had a head start in establishing alumni networks, financial resources, and academic reputations.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Eight | Civic Engagement and Positive Promotion of Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A few years ago when I was doing research on public markets I came across the book Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food and Community , which posits a more locally controlled and democratically involved regional food system, as opposed to the one we have, dominated by huge corporations. It's an interesting book.

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Add Productivity by Subtracting Distractions

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

After years of pandemics, civil unrest, natural disasters, and economic uncertainty, what red-blooded grant writer or fundraiser wouldn’t want to curl up on a comfy couch and scroll away for a few minutes to escape the stress and practice some self-care? You deserve it. I couldn’t resist). It ended at 3 a.m. Don’t believe me?

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Third place issues

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's a term popularized by Ray Oldenburg in a book of the same title. -- Third places” as community builders , Brookings A lot of the time they are commodified spaces, places where you have to spend money to participate. s As You Are bar issues fundraising appeal to prevent closure ," Washington Blade. Photo: " D.C.’s