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Government Support Was Key For Thousands Of US Nonprofits Battered By COVID-19’S Early Costs − New Research

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 08/23/2023 - 5:00am

Government funding helped keep U.S. charities afloat during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study I conducted with Stephanie Karol, a fellow economist.

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Tribal Courts Across The Country Are Expanding Holistic Alternatives To The Criminal Justice System

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 08/23/2023 - 4:00am

Inside a jail cell at Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, Albertyn Pino's only plan was to finish the six-month sentence for public intoxication, along with other charges, and to return to her abusive boyfriend.

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Couch, Car Or Curb: Defining Which Young Person Is ‘Homeless’ Affects Aid State By State

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 08/23/2023 - 3:00am

The spectrum of youth homelessness is vast.

It includes young children sleeping with their mothers in crowded shelters and families living in tent encampments in public parks. There are teenage runaways who have fled abusive homes to live on the streets and kids who spend their nights hidden in cars or abandoned buildings.

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Stifling Prison Heat Used To Be Just A Southern Problem. Not Anymore.

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 08/16/2023 - 5:00am

While sweltering heat in prisons without air conditioning has long been an issue in the South, extreme heat waves worsened by climate change are expanding the problem into Northern states.

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109-Year-Old Tulsa Massacre Survivor Becomes Oldest Woman In The World To Release A Memoir

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 08/16/2023 - 4:00am

More than 100 years later, Viola Fletcher can still vividly remember the smell of her thriving neighborhood — dubbed America’s “Black Wall Street” — burning.

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Native Hawaiian Sacred Sites Have Been Damaged In The Lahaina Wildfires – But, As An Indigenous Scholar Writes, Their Stories Will Live On

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 08/16/2023 - 3:00am

Native Hawaiians are devastated by the recent wildfires that swept through Lahaina, Maui, killing dozens of residents and destroying hundreds of homes, buildings, Christian churches and Buddhist temples.

It is not just the historic buildings and landmarks that are important to Native Hawaiians. This region of Maui has a longer history.

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Connecting Community With Opportunity At NAM’s 17th Annual Nonprofit Summit Of The Midlands

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 08/16/2023 - 2:00am

OMAHA, Neb. – “Connecting Community with Opportunity” is the theme of the 17th annual Nonprofit Summit of the Midlands to be held Thursday, Nov. 2 at the Embassy Suites La Vista Hotel and Conference Center. Hosted by the Nonprofit Association of the Midlands (NAM), the all-day Summit annually brings together more than 300 nonprofit executives, employees, board members and volunteers from Nebraska and Iowa.

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Nonprofits May Engage In Advocacy And Limited Lobbying, But Few Do So – New Research

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 08/09/2023 - 5:00am

Fewer than a third of charities in the U.S. (31%) engaged in advocacy in the last five years.
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Fewer than a third of charities in the U.S. (31%) engaged in advocacy in the last five years. This represents a dramatic decline in the past two decades, we found, even though the law allows these groups to speak up regarding the issues that affect the people they serve.

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Two NE Nonprofits To Host Free Omaha Clinic On Building Generational Wealth

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 08/09/2023 - 3:00am

LINCOLN — Two Nebraska organizations are partnering to offer free individualized sessions Aug. 12 on how homeowners can build generational wealth.

The Omaha sessions will delve into how the homeowner can have more control over the future of their home, and how family benefits can accrue from that asset.

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Indigenous Language Interpreters Unite To Fill Gaps

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 08/02/2023 - 5:00am

Bethany Fisher was raised in the Marshall Islands, the daughter of American missionaries who spoke English at home but who insisted that she and her siblings speak the Indigenous language of the island republic everywhere else.

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Non-Profit News

Government Support Was Key For Thousands Of US Nonprofits Battered By COVID-19’S Early Costs − New Research

Tribal Courts Across The Country Are Expanding Holistic Alternatives To The Criminal Justice System

Couch, Car Or Curb: Defining Which Young Person Is ‘Homeless’ Affects Aid State By State

Stifling Prison Heat Used To Be Just A Southern Problem. Not Anymore.

109-Year-Old Tulsa Massacre Survivor Becomes Oldest Woman In The World To Release A Memoir

Native Hawaiian Sacred Sites Have Been Damaged In The Lahaina Wildfires – But, As An Indigenous Scholar Writes, Their Stories Will Live On

Connecting Community With Opportunity At NAM’s 17th Annual Nonprofit Summit Of The Midlands

Nonprofits May Engage In Advocacy And Limited Lobbying, But Few Do So – New Research

Two NE Nonprofits To Host Free Omaha Clinic On Building Generational Wealth

Indigenous Language Interpreters Unite To Fill Gaps

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