November 2009
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New York Groups Ensure Stimulus Brings Opportunity...
The Open Society Institute announced this month a $500,000 grant to the New York Stimulus Alliance to monitor stimulus spending, encourage public participation in state-level decisions, and advocate for an equitable distribution of recovery funds .
“In the past, the government’s solutions to economic crises have often overlooked low-income communities and communities of color,” said Sondra...
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Five Trends Help to Create "Nonprofits of the...
Chronicle of Philanthropy reports on a new report by La Piana Consulting that explores five trends that are hastening the emergence of a new non-profit landscape. “The nonprofit field isn’t going to simply bounce back a few years from now to the state it was in before the recession.” The trends include shifting demographics to younger workers, using technological advances like social...
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Is Foundation Giving Going to Get Worst?
From the Chronicle of Philanthropy: “A new report suggests that grant makers will cut back their giving this year more than previously expected. In January the Foundation Center estimated that foundations would reduce their grant making 8 to 13 percent, but a new survey from the New York research group indicates that “the decline will be on the steeper end of that range.” While the stock market...
SOS Survey Launched
The Sustaining Organizing Study has launched a survey this week and is looking for local, regional and national organizations engaged in community organizing or resource/intermediary organizations that support organizing work to take the 30 question survey that will explore their programs, the impact of the economy on their organizing work and their experience of fundraising. The survey is part...