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Red Beans & Rice
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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

P.S. - Because of great feedback from you, we keep advancing.  We have changed up the sections a bit and have added two new sections, one for fundraising opportunities and one for new jobs.  Stay tuned for the Red Beans and Rice blog that is coming in August!
Mind Food
Articles and Ideas Advancing Our Work
Annals of Accountability: Kresge Foundation
Rip Rapson, President of the Kresge Foundation, notes that "since February, the economic pressures facing families and nonprofit organizations have intensified. The number of indidivuals out of work and families displaced from their homes continue to mount at staggering rates. Nonprofits continue their struggles to balance mounting costs, escalating demand, and diminishing revenues."

Saving Nonprofits In A Bear Market
Last month, Giving USA reported the largest decline in charitable giving in U.S.

Interview with Teach for America's President
Charity Navigator's President and CEO, Ken Berger, interviews Teach for America's President and Chief Program Officer, Matthew Kramer, about his charity's efforts to measure outcomes.

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Resource Nuggets
Funding and Resource Information to Fill Your Tank

This Week's Webinars: Get More Web Visitors & Content Creation Strategies
Low-cost or free seminars on how a non-profit can get more from their online strategies.

Ad Opportunities for Charities
By listing your organization in this Resource Guide, your organization will be in front of some of the most prominent High-Net Worth advisers in the country.

Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation Provides Free Musical Instruments to Schools in Need
The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, established in 1996, provides schools and after-school music programs with the instruments they desperately need, as most public schools receive little or no funding for music education classes. The group helps more than 10,000 students each year gain access to music instruments.

Buy Gifts for $100, Get $20 to Give to a Charity of Choice
An online gift retailer that donates 20% of all purchases of USD 100 or more to a charity of the buyer's choice. Which allows them to be generous twice: once when giving the gifts they purchased, and a second time when donating 20% of their value to a favorite charity.

Donated Guerilla Campaign Promotes Salvation Army
Creative agencies seem to have embraced corporate generosity with open arms, if a few recent initiatives are anything to go by.


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Field Stuff
Templates, Books, Tools and Products from the Field

10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media

What Are Your Forbidden Fund-Raising Words?
Does your organization have "forbidden" words? If so, does keeping them out of your copy or your conversations with donors hamstring your fund-raising efforts?

Corporation for National and Community Service FAQs on Social Innovation Fund

90 Foundations That Tweet

New Perspectives on Raising Money, Visibility & Our Voice!
Great resources on Entrepreneurial Ventures & Nonprofit Lobbying!

Give a Day to Charity & Get a Night at a Hotel
Group is offering half-price rooms for those who have completed a day of charity work. A limited number of free nights are also available at the group's hotels, which include Marriott, Starwood and Hilton locations.

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Checking the Boxes
Information to Help You Look Under The Hood
Philanthropy In/Sight: Mapping the Future
In/Sight plots access points to information on 90,000 foundations, 150,000 grantee organizations, and 1.6 milliion grants made during 2003-2009, including U.S. foundation grants made internationally. Grants can be plotted against a variety of thematic data (e.g., demographic information) and at a number of geographic levels (e.g., congressional district).

Advice on How Charities Should Use Online Social Networks

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Hottest Funding Opportunities
Hottest Job Opportunities 

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Mind Food
Resource Nuggets
Field Stuff
Checking the Boxes
Hot Jobs
Featured Article
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FEATURE ARTICLE
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AIG/Starr Foundation Challenges


Following the battle between AIG and the Starr International Foundation. The latest news is that a federal jury ruled that a $4 billion endowment owned by the Starr Foundation was not improperly seized from a fund set up to pay bonuses to employees of AIG. That is good news to many charities who received grants from the Foundation. AIG was under the impression that some of those funds could be used to pay bonuses to AIG employees which led to the legal fight. Documents were produced at the trial that show the funds were held in a charitable trust which eventually became the Starr International Foundation. The ruling keeps the money with the Foundation....for now.

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