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Education Cannot Wait Commits $500 Million to Serve Refugee Students and Teachers

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Prest Save the Children Bangladesh The Education Cannot Wait grant aims to continue the education of up to 5 million school-age refugee children worldwide, including Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. of Massachusetts at Boston received $10 million to establish the New Balance Institute for Innovative Leadership in Sport.

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Medical Ship Docks in Sierra Leone for Free Surgeries and Training

NonProfit Quarterly

The ship also takes on volunteers working in housekeeping, hospitality, food and beverage; houses a school and teachers for children to attend while their parents volunteer in critical roles; and coordinates the engineers and security staff necessary for a 12-deck purpose-built hospital ship to run smoothly.

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Busting the Overhead Myth

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Get Started About the Author: Tyler Adams, MNLM, CNP Associate Director of Development, Corporate & Community DevelopmentUniversity of Iowa Center for Advancement. Tyler’s career path started when his younger brother was diagnosed with leukemia before his 2nd birthday.

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Faith Communities and Affordable Housing: Challenges and Opportunities

NonProfit Quarterly

Over the past decade, both secular building interests and dozens of churches and religious organizations have planned, financed, and constructed affordable housing and community development projects across the United States and Canada. The project created over 100 permanent jobs for local Louisville residents.

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Putting Homeownership Preservation on Philanthropy’s Agenda

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most often, this occurs when a parent dies without a will and their home goes automatically to multiple children. This ambiguity creates a challenging legal situation where all the children must unanimously decide on matters relating to the property. Funders should confront this problem in three primary ways.

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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

The result of their work is more places for people to gather and experience nature, increased social cohesion, restored civic trust, and perhaps most importantly, community development that benefits all residents. In Akron, more than 20 public, nonprofit, and community groups came together to form the Civic Commons team.

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From Food Pantry to Urban Farming: Food Justice Lessons from Camden

NonProfit Quarterly

Agriculture Science and STEM Education requires working closely with school districts, colleges, and universities to expand educational opportunities and career pathways to support a sustainable local food system. Instead, most DEI efforts are led by human resource professionals with limited understanding of communities like Camden.

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