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How to Protect What We Love (People and the Planet) — Episode 144

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

Kenny Barnes is the program and outreach coordinator for Sustainability Matters, a grassroots environmental nonprofit based in Virginia, dedicated to cultivating community through conservation and making sustainability fun, realistic and inclusive for all.

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Why Is Program Evaluation So Important For Nonprofits?

Grant Consulting Services, LLC

Nonprofit organizations provide programs that influence our country by impacting our communities in 3 key ways: Cultivation and Sustainability Nonprofit organizations are the embodiment of human compassion. Catalysts Nonprofit missions are effective because they often begin at the grassroots level. And we need them. Desperately.

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Publication: Championing Leaders of Color

Center for Community Progress

Over time, though, the field of community development has shifted from grassroots movements to the careers of specialized professionals. Cultivate and nurture networks of support at all levels : People of color face a particular challenge in lacking strong professional and personal networks they can lean on for advice.