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JP Morgan Investing 325 Million In Charter Schools

JP Morgan a new initiative to invest 325 million in charter schools. The new initiative will focus on the growth of high performers in this difficult credit environment. The company will provide $50 million in grants to community development financial institutions (CDFIs) to be used as permanent equity to fund top-performing charter schools. 175 million [...]

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HP Donates $350,000 To Help With Typhoon Disaster Relief

Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation donates $350,000 to American Red Cross International Response Fund to help with disaster relief for Typhoon Ketsana. The Fund will provide immediate relief and long-term support through supplies, technical assistance and other support to communities affected by the disaster. In addition,  HP has commenced its own relief efforts to assist affected employees.

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Marin Community Foundation To Invest 35 Million In Education

The Marin Community Foundation ( marincf.org ) will be investing a minimum of 35 million over five years to low income students and students of color. The Foundation’s goal with this investment is to help close the education gap in their area of Marin County. “..[T]here are also many [students] who are falling behind, and [...]

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Social Media Guidelines For Organizations

The Kentucky Business Network just published an article on creating social media guidelines for corporations. This article can be very helpful to non-profit organizations as well. Essentially this article is a primer for drafting a social media rulebook, with some helpful tips and advice. Here’s the link: Kentucky Business Network: Developing A Corporate Social Media [...]

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TwitCause Helps Promote Charities

Twitter is a social beast. This simple micro blogging service has recently gained main stream fame during the Iran elections as a major influence of grass roots political communication and organization. Even CNN reported directly on Twitter as a primary source of information from the protests in Iran. Now, Twitter has announced a new tool [...]

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Traditional Media Still A Strong Choice For Non Profit Marketing

New media is all the rave. RSS, blogs, aggregators, pod-casting, social networking, Skype, online meetings, e-newsletters, cloud computing, widgets and online search has dominated the pages of marketing journals and news for quite some time. Traditional media is struggling to keep the profits rolling in the way it used to. However, traditional media is not [...]

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