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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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Recent Member Blogs in Civic

  • Age is More Than Just a Number

    Posted July 8th, 2008 by MegBokChoy

     

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  • Zero Net Energy City - Masdar Development

    Posted July 5th, 2008 by Myles Huddart

    The first zero waste, zero carbon emission city is to be constructed in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Masdar City, a $22 billion complex designed by Sir Norman Foster + Partners, will be kicked off with the completion of a mixed-use positive energy headquarters building, the first of its kind in the world.

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  • Rewarding Chores

    Posted June 30th, 2008 by Josie

    Working with the Volunteer Chore Program has proved to be very rewarding, not only for myself as the Program Director, but also for the 100+ volunteers that put in their time and talents each year to help seniors and adults with disabilities who are low-income in our community.

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  • Rewarding Chores

    Posted June 27th, 2008 by Josie

    Working with the Volunteer Chore Program has proved to be very rewarding, not only for myself as the Program Director, but also for the 100+ volunteers that put in their time and talents each year to help seniors and adults with disabilities who are low-income in our community.

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  • Help a Bald Brother Out!

    Posted May 28th, 2008 by Dorian Adams

    The Today Show introduced me to the “Stand Up to Cancer” initiative this morning.  It’s anchored by a terrific

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  • Fashion Victims

    Posted May 19th, 2008 by Alyssa Royse

    My distaste for fashion labels, brands, icons and whatnot has more to do with my distaste for being told what to do, than anything else. Even as a child, if someone said to me, “you have to wear a dress,” I would immediately go put on a pair of pants and heaven help the person – no matter how big or “authoritative” - who tried to tell me to take off the pants.

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Featured Civic Articles

  • Conquest of the Word Masters: 826 Valencia Expands its Empire from Coast to Coast

    by Ann Simms

    Mac Barnett is turning a shampoo bottle over in his hands. The liquid inside is viscous, the color of blood. “We haven’t gotten all the kinks out yet. But we’re close,” he says, grinning mischievously.

    “Rasputin Baby Shampoo” is one ofthe 300 products that Barnett and his colleagues are developing for the Echo Park Time Travel Mart. (“El Dorado Solid Gold Scrubber Pads” and “Mammoth Chunks” soup are two more of the works-in-progress.) This store, once opened, will be the retail counterpoint to 826 LA, an educational wonderland for kids that’s been up and buzzing since March of 2005.

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  • The Edible Schoolyard: Alice Waters' Chez Panisse Foundation

    by Ann Simms

    In the summer of 1969, Alice Waters and a friend were traveling across the plains of central Anatolia in a tiny, beat-up Morris Minor. Waters had just completed her coursework at the Montessori Institute in London, where she was preparing to become a high school teacher. This trip to Turkey, along with the next year she would spend restaurant hopping in France, was to be her last hurrah before launching a lifelong career in education.

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  • The Level Playing Field Institute is a Shining Model for How to Maximize Opportunities for Deserving Students

     

    We're dedicated to finding ways to smooth the path for motivated and bright students so that they will be able to participate fully in an increasingly competitive global economy, one where a college degree and critical thinking skills are essential for success.

    Cedric Brown
    Former LPFI Director of Higher Education Programs

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