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Archive for 29 December 2009
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GNOF | 29 December 2009
Jeff Schwartz is the executive director of Broad Community Connections. He is a native New Orleanian with a Master in City Planning degree from MIT. Broad Community Connections received a grant from the Community IMPACT Program to advocate for the revitalization of our city’s great urban commercial corridor [...]
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GNOF | 17 December 2009
Phyllis Cassidy, executive director of Good Work Network, has only to hear Thomas Brown’s name and she breaks out in a broad smile.While Cassidy is proud of many of her 700 Good Work Network members, she has special praise for Brown [...]
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GNOF | 9 December 2009
Tim Walter is CEO and executive director of the Association of Small Foundations, a group of over 3,100 foundations with few or no staff, representative of the vast majority of foundations…
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GNOF | 1 December 2009
One of the wonderful benefits of volunteerism is the friendships that are made. After the hurricanes of 2005, three women met for the first time as volunteers for HandsOn New Orleans, a thriving volunteer center for grassroots service projects supported by GNOF. Every year at this time they return to renew their commitment to New [...]
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