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  • Four Nonprofits That Inspire Hope

    Posted July 22nd, 2008 by Skye Kilaen

    Living in the modern world can be downright depressing. Wars, crime, poverty, and recession stare out at you from the front page of the newspaper every single day.

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    Why Do Nonprofits Send You Address Labels? (And How Do You Make Them Stop?)

    Posted July 15th, 2008 by Skye Kilaen

    Junk mail is the bane of my existence. I hate to call mail from a nonprofit organization junk, but that's what it feels like when a bunch of envelopes show up from organizations I've barely even heard of. I pick charities to support myself, I don't need them to pick me.

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  • Rising Food Prices Mean Nonprofits Get Creative

    Posted July 8th, 2008 by Skye Kilaen

    I try not to think about how much we're spending on food for my family these days, because my mind just boggles at how much some groceries now cost. I know that food prices rise over time, but I'm accustomed to thinking of that as a generational phenomenon, not an annual one.

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  • Join the Navy and See the World

    Posted July 7th, 2008 by Alex Elliot

    Careful students of history may be surprised that a US naval vessel recently became the first foreign military ship to stop in the port of Nha Trang, Vietnam. Not only did the US not win the Vietnam War, but the thaw in relations between the US and Vietnam has not been sufficient to justify joint military exercises.

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  • Should We Pour More Taxpayer Money into Faith-Based Initiatives?

    Posted July 2nd, 2008 by Suzanne Reisman

    While I visited my bubbe (that's Yiddish for grandmother) at a Catholic hospital where she was recovering from laproscopic surgery, the local news was airing on the TV in her room. It announced that Barack Obama promised to up the ante on George Bush's failed faith-based services initiative if he is elected president, pouring millions more dollars into religious organizations.

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  • Are There Too Many Nonprofits?

    Posted July 1st, 2008 by Skye Kilaen

    The nonprofit world has been abuzz lately with talk of the sheer number of nonprofit organizations. How many should we have? How many is too many? How do we get rid of some of them?

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