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How one nonprofit uses AWS to amplify citizen advocacy across Africa

AWS Public Sector Blog

Whether lobbying political leaders in world capitals or running grassroots campaigns in local communities, ONE encourages governments to fight extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. How the AWS Nonprofit Credit Program helped us. Learn more about AWS for nonprofits. Read more about ONE’s mission here.

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Bridging Policy Gaps with Inclusive Data w/ Candice Mays

Policy Chats

Alongside a diverse professional background in grassroots nonprofit organization management, development, and grant making, she spent three years as a literacy teacher with the New York City Department of Education after receiving her M.A. in English Education from New York University. in English Education from New York University.

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Why Is Program Evaluation So Important For Nonprofits?

Grant Consulting Services, LLC

Is your nonprofit organization making a difference? How Nonprofit Programs Impact the Community Are you wondering if there’s still good in the world? Look at nonprofits’ work to help restore your faith in humanity. Catalysts Nonprofit missions are effective because they often begin at the grassroots level.

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RVP 2024: Philanthropy and Community Revitalization

Center for Community Progress

How do your partnerships with local governments, nonprofits, and residents inform your community investments? We need local governments, nonprofits, the private sector and residents to come together, each bringing their unique strengths and resources to the table.

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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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Looking Back at the 2020-21 Community Revitalization Fellowship: Creative Placemaking by Community Leaders from Three Cities

Center for Community Progress

The 2020-2021 CRF Cycle The 2020-2021 Community Revitalization Fellowship included grassroots community leaders from Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Montgomery, Alabama; and Reading, Pennsylvania. Each community cohort also receive a $10,000 grant to develop and execute their own creative placemaking projects.

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Community Progress Welcomes 2022 Community Revitalization Fellows from New York, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico

Center for Community Progress

Cohorts of grassroots community leaders from Syracuse, New York ; Braddock/East Pittsburgh/North Braddock (BEN), Pennsylvania ; and Loíza, Puerto Rico will collectively learn revitalization strategies for neighborhoods struggling with vacancy, abandonment, and disinvestment.