Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 12, 2024

But when you don't have enough people to populate your empty housing, buildings deteriorate and people advocate for demolition, not recognizing in a weak market that improving an empty lot is even harder than fixing an empty house. A national nonprofit working toward increasing and enhancing community gardening and greening.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Nothing ever came of it, probably because we both became so busy, but this friend also graduated and then left the academy to go into nonprofit work and is now a program director at a nationally recognized humanities nonprofit. Last week, I was so excited about the prospect of buying a house that we saw and loved.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In answering your top questions, we’ve tried to address key concepts and provide suggestions on how to find what you are seeking on our website and those of other organizations providing nonprofit resources. Are you a registered nonprofit? Do you provide direct services to individuals, or are you an advocacy organization?

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Our blog posts typically focus on grant strategies for nonprofit institutions. However, many of the principles will also apply to researchers based outside of the US as well as to nonprofits. In this post, we’re going to focus on a different topic for a more targeted audience. The topic is research funding.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 24, 2022

The former school houses community-led programs focused on passing on Puerto Rican culinary and cultural heritage through distribution of hot meals and by providing educational tutoring to local youth which incorporates local music and dance.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 29, 2024

For example, one tree she learned about was planted as a barter between a family that helped a poorer one heat their house in a particularly cold winter. And it has the nonprofit Casey Trees planting trees throughout the city, in public spaces and in conjunction with property owners and utility companies, on private property.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I learned long ago that I’m a lot less likely to eat ice cream if I don’t keep ice cream in the house; having to actually get up and go out for ice cream lowers the willpower cost of saying no (and if I want the ice cream that much, I probably deserve it). Cheer yourself on.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

But there have been a bunch of Associated Press articles in my newsfeed, which clued me in. -- " Volunteers speak on why they serve and why more people don’t " -- " Nonprofits scramble for help amid dearth of volunteers " -- " New to volunteering? Filling sandbags at Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Ward Halls/Democracy House.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Because that space doesn't exist in DC, either innovative uses don't develop -- such as the nonprofit advocacy sector, which as cheap spaces disappeared groups stopped being created counter to the heyday of the 1960s and 1970s -- or they develop in the suburbs. In other words, do the change because you're desperate.

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