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How to Succeed on a Nonprofit Board

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08/28/2017

... a Nonprofit Board Late one night, not too long ago, one of us got a phone call from a desperate executive director. The ... would renew. After all, they had done so innumerable times in the past. But as a new...

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BoardSource 2017 Finds a New Platform for Action in the Face of Declining Diversity

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09/06/2017

BoardSource 2017 Finds a New Platform for Action in the Face of Declining Diversity The 2017 version of ... board trends, but its purview is far too broad for us to manage in the context of one...

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A DeVos Speech on Title IX Heightens Advocates’ Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent

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09/07/2017

... known as Title IX as a legal basis, as a momentous step in acknowledging the risk of sexual assault faced by college ...

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Education

The Promise of Skills-Based Volunteering

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09/07/2017

... all kinds have become much more socially aware and active. In 2015, more than 75 percent of large US corporations were engaged in corporate citizenship activities of one type or another.1 ...

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Forecasting the Upcoming City Council Gender Imbalance

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09/11/2017

... Council Gender Imbalance There are currently only 13 women in the 51-seat New York City Council, a troubling 25 percent. The number is down from 18 women in the Council a few years ago. With the city’s...

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A Smarter Response: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy Looks to Leverage Donor Dollars

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09/11/2017

... Looks to Leverage Donor Dollars The internet offers us instant gratification. A movie is a mouse click away. Need ... the recipient of those funds was a small nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., called the...

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Health at A Planetary Scale

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09/14/2017

... two. Two hundred years ago, there were about 1 billion of us ; today, we number more than 7 billion. We have harnessed ...

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Trump Denies He Made A Deal With Democrats On DREAMer Protections

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09/14/2017

... Action for Childhood Arrivals program is scheduled to end in March. "No deal was made last night on DACA," he tweeted ... "Massive border security would have to be agreed to in exchange for...

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Opinion: Planned Parenthood of NYC Joins Call to Remove Racist Statue

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09/14/2017

... When images of white supremacists taking the streets in Charlottesville first surfaced, thousands of New Yorkers participated in rallies to condemn the hateful actions and rhetoric of ... place, we must not...

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Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna

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09/14/2017

Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna In her 2015 TED Talk, “What Do We Do When Antibiotics ... uncle who died of a basic infection after a minor injury in a firehouse in 1938. Most people back then...

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Food Systems

Study: Giving Leads to Happiness

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09/18/2017

... The scientific evidence that generosity is good for us has been scant, even as the benefits of selfishness are ... obvious. Recently, however, a neurological study published in Nature Communications found...

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Gotham Gains: Family Incomes Up, Poverty Down

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09/20/2017

... Census Bureau last week, shows continued healthy gains in median family incomes and significant drops in poverty, especially childhood poverty, in New York City. The new figures confirm...

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Economic Security

New Book, "The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World by Carnegie Council Centennial Chair Michael Ignatieff

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09/20/2017

New Book, "The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World by Carnegie Council Centennial Chair ... Michael Ignatieff What moral values do human beings hold in common? As globalization draws us...

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LDN Fund Officially Launched

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09/22/2017

... Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ordos, China. With an initial target size of US $300 million, the LDN Fund is a first-of-its-kind ... over the past three years through the Global...

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Environment and Climate Change

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How Nonprofits Can Make The Super Rich Work For Them

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09/22/2017

... net worth adults–people with at least $1 million in liquid financial assets–by U.S. Trust, Bank of ...

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Pound Foolish

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09/22/2017

... bank have provided a vital link between food and families in need. Today, more than 200 food banks across the United ... than 46 million people, or more than 14 percent of the US population. These hubs supply...

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Food Systems

Filling New York Harbor with Millions Of Oysters to Fight Pollution

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09/28/2017

... use them—an estimated one-tenth of the total amassed in the city each week—to build reefs and nurture oyster populations in New York Harbor. Oysters filter out excess nitrogen—the ... Yorkers to care about the...

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How Many Big Storms Before People Abandon Coastal Cities?

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10/02/2017

... coastline, with about 10 percent of the population living in coastal areas that are less than 10 meters (32 feet) above ... Coastal migration has been steadily trending upward. In the U.S. alone, coastal...

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More Trafficking Victims Turn to Hotline With Pleas for Help

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10/02/2017

... her into prostitution. That confidential call was received in late January by the National Human Trafficking Hotline, ... the tip to an anti-trafficking task force operating in Virginia's Hampton Roads...

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