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Red Beans & Rice
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
YMCA Leads List of 100 Charities With Strongest Brands

Idea Index and Changing how we look for Change

A Win Win Situation

Free Mobile Phones for the rural Poor - lets call it "Wireless Welfare" [Op-Ed]

IRS Official Stresses Agency's Role in Governance Matters

National Youth Charity Pushes Local Chapters To Start Raising Money

Rural Development Grantmaking-Problems and Prospects

Face-to-Face Fund Raising Grows in Britain

Declining Resources Accelerates Trend Toward Mergers, Alliances

Fundraising Nuggets
Funding and Resource Development Opportunities
Funding Opportunity of the Week
Tom's of Maine Community Sponsorships
Tom's of Maine Community Sponsorships offer support to nonprofit organizations throughout the United States working to do good in their communities. The program will provide grants of $20,000 each to five nonprofit organizations in order to enhance their community projects. A wide range of community projects are eligible for support, including environmental initiatives, health and human service programs, community events, etc. Applications must be submitted by August 30, 2009. A review panel will narrow down the applications to 50 finalists, which will then be posted on the Tom's of Maine website so that the public can vote for which five projects should be awarded funding. Visit the website listed above to learn more about the program.

Mission-Based Management: Online Donations and Payments

Women's Philanthropy Grows 223 percent

Encouraging Generosity On Social Networks: Assessing America's Giving Challenge and Reflections from Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp

Remember the Giving Challenge?
Movin' On Up
Jobs and Professional Development Opportunities
Mixing your Work and Personal Life Online

Voluntourism: Seeing and Serving the World
Field Stuff
Resources, Templates, Books, Products from the Field
Nonprofit Video + Volunteer Opportunities = New YouTube Program!

Tips for Using the Web, E-mail and Social Networking to Net 'Wired Wealthy' Donors

Encouraging Generosity On Social Networks: Assessing America's Giving Challenge and Reflections from Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp

Nonprofit Groups Outpace Businesses in Adopting Social-Networking Tools
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Real Life Philanthropist Inspires New TV Drama

City Opera Tries to Hold Off the Ultimate Finale

Opinion: Will Philanthropy Take Advantage of the Opportunity Afforded by Hollywood?

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Sara Falkoff, a junior at the College of Wooster, tills a new vegetable garden on the campus.
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While colleges and universities slashed their spending this year with wrenching layoffs, hiring freezes and halts in construction projects, they whittled away at costs with smaller, quirkier economies, too: ...

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