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Red Beans & Rice is a weekly e-mail of interesting articles, funding resources, professional development opportunities and other areas that Cuidiu has come across the previous week related to the nonprofit and philanthropic sector.  Each day we receive hundreds of e-mails, RSS feeds and blog postings and this is our attempt to synthesize all of this into the most useful information for you. We look forward to sharing this information with those who we know closely and those whom we have shared only a relationship through e-mail. 

Please let us know what information you find most useful and please forward this information to your colleagues, board members and friends.  The reason for the name Red Beans & Rice originates from Louie Armstrong and how he signed his letters.  According to some he meant it as a kind gesture to grow stronger.

John Brothers, Principal
Cuidiu Consulting
Mind Food
In the Arts: House Panel OK's NEA, NEH Budget Boosts

Ford Foundation Offers Buyouts to One-Third of Employees & Robert Wood Johnson Offers Buyout to 40% of Its Employees

Give and Take: Picking an 'All-Star Federal Philanthropy Team'

Fundraising Nuggets
Funding and Resource Development Opportunities
Foundation Grant of the Week: William T. Grant Foundation
Letters of inquiry regarding grants for research on social environments that affect the daily lives of youths ages 8 to 25 and how those settings can be improved, and the use of research evidence in public policy that affects young people. On average, grants range from $100,000 to $600,000 each over two or three years. Additional information is available on the foundation's Web site. Who may apply: researchers at nonprofit organizations classified as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or the equivalent for entities outside the United States.

Contact: Nancy Rivera-Torres, WTGF 570 Lexington Avenue, 18th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10022; (212) 752-0071; fax (212) 752-1398 nrivera@wtgrantfdn.org

Corporate Grant of the Week - Ameriprise Financial Community Relations grants:
Grants will be awarded to nonprofits working to provide resources to at-risk populations, support community development, and conduct volunteer projects with Ameriprise employees, advisors, and retirees
Deadline: September 1, 2009

New iPhone Application Could Help Charity Fund Raising


Grants: Do You Have a System in Place?

Movin' On Up
Jobs and Professional Development Opportunities
WSJ.com - Jobless Professionals Yearn to Do Good

Green Jobs Sector 'Poised for Explosive Growth,' Study Says

How to Build a Thriving Nonprofit (tele-seminar series)

Field Stuff
Resources, Templates, Books, Products from the Field
A Self Directed Legal Resource - Whichdraft.com

How to Write Your Nonprofit Marketing Plan in Only One Day

Nonprofit Cost Analysis Kit

Why Non-Profits Are So Good at Social Media
More Tidbits 
Does Funding Orphanages Create Orphans?

The Art of Giving - Rating the Fund Development Professional

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Charity Navigator
Ken is the President & CEO of Charity Navigator
In December, the nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator triggered a debate when it announced it would begin exploring how it could judge charities on their effectiveness, as opposed to their financial and governance practices.

To continue and foster that discussion, the organization in Mahwah, N.J., plans to hold an "open forum" on the Internet with nonprofit experts, writes Ken Berger,  the group's chief executive, on his blog...

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