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• Lacking In Initiatives Dept.: Mike Gravel Wants You to Have to Vote Even More Often

  Published: July 30, 2007, 6:14 pm

  Tags: Democracy, Lacking In Initiatives Dept, Mike Gravel, Nonprofits

  What has crazy old man Mike Gravel been up to since he left the Senate 200 years ago? He founded a nonprofit called “The Democracy Foundation” whose aim is nothing less than the complete...

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• Mayor pledges city's support for $7M UCIA bond you never heard of

  Published: September 19, 2007, 9:09 am

  Tags: Robinson Briggs, Ucia, Nonprofits

  Your friendly Union County Improvement Authority is about to put the taxpayers of Plainfield and Union County on the hook for a $7M bond issue to underwrite the expansion by BUF (The Black United Fund) "or its affiliate or transferee" of a pre-school facility in the City of Plainfield.What?! You didn't know BUF was planning a $7M expansion?You and

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• $7M BUF Bond May Leave Plainfield On The Hook

  Published: September 28, 2007, 8:04 am

  Tags: Bonds, Robinson Briggs, Plainfield, Ucia, Jerrygreen, Nonprofits

  With the County Counsel saying that perhaps the City of Plainfield is on the hook if BUF defaults on the UCIA bonds but that the County certainly wasn't, the Board of Chosen Freeholders voted last night to consent to the offering of $7M in bonds by the UCIA to underwrite BUF's pre-school project.The only 'no' vote was from Freeholder Mapp, who

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• A Call to Advocacy for Nonprofits

  Published: November 20, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Call, Advocacy, For, Nonprofits, Gary D Bass, John Mccain, Carlos Gutierrez, Jack Abramoff, Nels B Olson, New York City, Theraflu, Washington Dc, Korn Ferry International, Novartis Ag, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, Pernod Ricard Sa, Pinnacle West Capital Corpor

  Charities are sweet things, but Gary D. Bass wants them to get rough and tumble when it comes to dealing with government.

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• Nonprofits Become A Force in Primaries

  Published: December 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Nonprofits, Become, Force, Primaries, Iowa, Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee, New Hampshire, Federal Election Commission, Common Sense Issues Inc, Internal Revenue Service, Lois G Lerner, Michael Toner, Mitt Romney, Patrick Davis, Robert Lenhard, Friends Of The Earth

  Nonprofit groups created to educate the public and lobby on issues have started inserting themselves into the presidential primaries, adding an unexpected wild card to wide-open elections in both parties.

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• Nonprofits Become A Force in Primaries

  Published: December 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Nonprofits, Become, Force, Primaries, Iowa, Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee, New Hampshire, Federal Election Commission, Common Sense Issues Inc, Internal Revenue Service, Lois G Lerner, Michael Toner, Mitt Romney, Patrick Davis, Robert Lenhard, Friends Of The Earth

  Nonprofit groups created to educate the public and lobby on issues have started inserting themselves into the presidential primaries, adding an unexpected wild card to wide-open elections in both parties.

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• Nonprofits Become A Force in Primaries

  Published: December 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Nonprofits, Become, Force, Primaries, Iowa, Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee, New Hampshire, Federal Election Commission, Common Sense Issues Inc, Internal Revenue Service, Lois G Lerner, Michael Toner, Mitt Romney, Patrick Davis, Robert Lenhard, Friends Of The Earth

  Nonprofit groups created to educate the public and lobby on issues have started inserting themselves into the presidential primaries, adding an unexpected wild card to wide-open elections in both parties.

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• Nonprofits Become A Force in Primaries

  Published: December 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Nonprofits, Become, Force, Primaries, Iowa, Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee, New Hampshire, Federal Election Commission, Common Sense Issues Inc, Internal Revenue Service, Lois G Lerner, Michael Toner, Mitt Romney, Patrick Davis, Robert Lenhard, Friends Of The Earth

  Nonprofit groups created to educate the public and lobby on issues have started inserting themselves into the presidential primaries, adding an unexpected wild card to wide-open elections in both parties.

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• Email: Freelancers Union "Truly Sorry" For Insurance Misfire [Evil Nonprofits]

  Published: January 15, 2008, 5:29 pm

  Tags: Apologies, Emails, Evil Nonprofits, Freelancers Union, Media, Our Bad, Sara Horowitz

  The Freelancers Union—whose ranks include non-staff writers and photographers—issued another sincere apology this afternoon via email for badly-communicated changes to member insurance...

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• STAT OF THE DAY: On Nonprofits

  Published: February 28, 2008, 3:51 pm

  Tags: Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate, Nonprofits

  In 2007, nonprofits leased 1,287,743 square feet of commercial space in New York City, according to a new report from Suzanne Sunshine, a vice president at CB Richard Ellis. As of February 2008, 25 nonprofits were looking for 801,000 square feet of space in the city. Got any?

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• From American Idol to us

  Published: April 14, 2008, 10:43 am

  Tags: Nonprofits, Charity, Long Island Cares, Telethons

  If any of you watched last week’s marathon American Idol charity telethon, Idol Gives Back (LI Biz Blog just loved the marriage of Fergie and legendary rock band Heart), you’ll be glad to know a portion of the money raised could come right back to Long Island. Food bank Long Island Cares said the organization picked up $22,575 from the

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• My first week of Job Searching, in Review

  Published: May 13, 2008, 4:57 pm

  Tags: Careers, Job Interviews, Jobs, Music Industry, Nonprofits, Resumes

  I am really loathe to do this. I didn’t at all the last time I was looking for a job, not once. I would just send out as many resumes as I could and do my best not to think about where or how many, then wait for the calls to start coming in. But back then, I had some idea of what I was looking for, so I never doubted

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• Pew's Mission to Lower Nonprofits' Office Rent

  Published: June 16, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Pew S, Mission, Lower, Nonprofits, Office, Rent, Rebecca W Rimel, Washington Dc, Olivia Shay Byrne, The Pew Charitable Trusts, J Edgar Hoover Building, Matt Feeney, Neil O Albert, Philadelphia, Reed Smith, Sean Madigan, Steven Weiss, American Cancer Society, The Pnc Fin

  Call it a nonprofit lifeline. Pew Charitable Trusts, one of the largest nonprofit organizations in the nation, has acquired the 10-story office building at 901 E St. NW, just across the street from the J. Edgar Hoover Building. The 265,00-square-foot space will serve as the group's new Washington...

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• To China, with love

  Published: June 18, 2008, 3:12 pm

  Tags: Nonprofits, Technology, Disasters, Falconstor, Tragedy

  Local firm FalconStor Software Inc. is doing all it can to help out victims of one of this year’s worst global tragedies, the major earthquake that struck China’s Sichuan Province in May. In total, counting a company donation and donations from employees, the Melville company has sent more than $200,000 through various charities to

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• If you don't have time to volunteer...

  Published: July 1, 2008, 10:00 am

  Tags: Volunteer, Online, Charity, Danielle, Donations, Nonprofits

  internet, charities and many nonprofits are doing so as well. In fact, most don't have a choice. Nonprofits are organized similarly to the majority of for-profit businesses and therefore, they must adapt to the new age to survive. So, how does this affect you? Well, just as everything is becoming easier, most charities now allow you to donate

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