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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.

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Cuidiu Consulting

Mind Food
Articles and Ideas Advancing Our Work
Are Happiness and Generosity the Future of Marketing Campaigns?
"Last winter, a report "Generation Generosity" predicted that corporate greed would be replaced by generosity and a little love and happiness too.  Seems like generosity comes in shades of green too."

Causes Featured in the Atlantic: The Netroots Effect
"The Internet is the most democratizing innovation we've ever seen-more so even than the printing press."

Contingency and Scenario Planning -- What's the Difference and How Do Nonprofits Get Started?
"Sometimes called business continuity plans or disaster recovery plans," this link is full of resources to help your nonprofit develop a strategy to all the "what-ifs" that keep you up at night.

Philadelphia Cultural Engagement Index
"Presents baseline data for a comprehensive measure to track broad cultural engagement. Examines patterns of activity; variation by county, race/ethnicity, gender, age and discipline; ways to increase engagement; and factors that influence activity levels."

Adolescent Literacy Development in Out-of-School Time: A Practitioner's Guidebook

The Entrepreneurial Union
"The Freelancers Union, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based nonprofit that provides self-employed workers with health insurance, retirement plans, community events, and political representation. Unlike most employee benefits in the United States, which are tied to particular companies, the Freelancers Union's offerings can travel with independent workers from job to job and from project to project."

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Resource Nuggets
Funding & Resource Information to Fill Your Tank

Charities face new call to help each other
"In its latest report the Charity Commission says mergers can make the caring community more effective."

Games That Give - You Play. We Donate. Charities Win.
"GamesThatGive is a new company that creates casual video games (Solitaire, Sudoku, etc.) where you earn donations for your favorite charity, for free, just by playing."

An Untapped Resource: Understanding Volunteers aged 8 to 12

Potential Changes to Funding Available to Religious Charities

Better World Books - Record Breaking Gift
BetterWorldBooks buys and resells books to raise funds for literacy programs around the world.

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Field Stuff
Templates, Books, Tools and Products from the Field
Checking the Boxes - Philanthropy Focus
Information to Help You Look Under The Hood
Hottest Funding Opportunities & Ideas

Where The Jobs Are: Development And Fundraising

'Tis the Season To Raise Funds

38% of Companies Cut Cash Giving in 2009, Study Finds

New RFP's Announced
Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations, The Voice of the Texas Nonprofit Sector, September 19, 2009


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Career Opportunities

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Mind Food
Resource Nuggets
Field Stuff
Checking the Boxes
Featured Article
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FEATURE ARTICLE

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Letting Non-Profits Act Like Businesses:
One Foundation's Brave Act of Leadership


The Boston Foundation announced its new grantmaking strategy.   "The most dramatic change is a shift of emphasis to unrestricted operating support."  You heard right, "unrestricted" support, characterized by larger grants, longer term limits and allowing nonprofits to operate within their own timelines.  Its a new day for nonprofits and a challenge to similar funders to  follow this bold leadership.

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