HUD Awards $1.6 Billion for Local Homeless Programs Funding support to thousands of local homeless housing and service programs Source: HUD Wireless For All A new model for sustainable municipal Wi-Fi Peter Dye | American City and County Organizational Diversity Is Deeper than Race From Engaging Local Government Leaders / ELGL.ORG Ann Ebberts: Here’s How to Improve Data Transparency [...]
Holy Cow, This Community Foundation Is Exploding. Why Is That? By Alyssa Ochs / Inside Philanthropy The North Face Announces 2016 Explore Fund Grants Open for Applications $500,000 to be awarded to nonprofit organizations that connect people to the outdoors CSR Wire The Completely Revised Guide to Great Board Recruitment By The Editors NonProfit Quarterly HIV Charities [...]
HUD Secretary Julian Castro to Begin Prosperity Playbook Community Tour The “Prosperity Playbook”will be a compilation of online resources written for and by state and local decision makers. Source: HUD States Strive to Eliminate Costly Construction Delays GovExec / Route Fifty True Neighborhood Revitalization Requires a Holistic Approach Derek Prall / American City & County Let's Build [...]
New Law Requires French Supermarkets to Donate Surplus Food to Charity Chronicle of Philanthropy Staging a Comeback: How the Nonprofit Arts Sector Has Evolved since the Great Recession By Eileen Cunniffe and Julie Hawkins / NonProfit Quarterly Who’s Your Nonprofit BFF? By Liz Ragland Network for Good It’s Not Foundation Money but Culture and Talent That [...]
HUD Secretary Castro and Google Fiber Announce First Public Housing Units to be Connected to Ultra High Speed Internet Through ConnectHome Initiative Source: HUD Change in Local Government: Moving Beyond Good Intentions By Ron Littlefield City Accelerator - Governing.com Boston Tracks Snowplows with GIS-Based SnowCOP to Keep Roads Clear Michael Keating / American City & County [...]
Microsoft to Donate $1 Billion in Cloud Services to Nonprofits Philanthropy News Digest Let’s Join Forces to Increase Charitable Giving to 3% of GDP By Kevin Murphy Chronicle of Philanthropy By Kevin Murphy Chronicle of Philanthropy Network for Good Irvine to Focus Efforts on Poverty, Political Participation Philanthropy News Digest DiCaprio Foundation to Award $15 [...]
Residents Want Sustainable and Lovable Cities By Bruce Henderson - Charoltte Observer Civic Labs: Improving Public Services From the Bottom Up Innovation platforms are springing up all over, engaging citizens in the process. Government's challenge is to manage and nurture them. By Kendra L. Smith & Kevin D. Desouza Governing.com HUD and VA Award $5.9 Million to [...]
First Philanthropy Almanac Provides a Wealth of Facts and Data Chronicle of Philanthropy A City in Remission: Can the “Grand Bargain” Revive Detroit? By Rick Cohen / NonProfit Quarterly Thank You Calls as a Donor Retention Tool: 6 Steps to Success Network for Good Nonprofits Struggle to Pay Increased Minimum Wage Philanthropy News Digest Nonprofits [...]
First Philanthropy Almanac Provides a Wealth of Facts and Data Chronicle of Philanthropy A City in Remission: Can the “Grand Bargain” Revive Detroit? By Rick Cohen / NonProfit Quarterly Thank You Calls as a Donor Retention Tool: 6 Steps to Success Network for Good Nonprofits Struggle to Pay Increased Minimum Wage Philanthropy News Digest Nonprofits [...]