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Begging for Change

A recent survey conducted by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Society Studies asked charity executives what a new presidential administration could do to help nonprofit groups.  According to these nonprofit leaders,  their No. 1 priority for a new administration is the ”growth of federal funds” for ‘their’ cause.   How uninspiring!
Other priorities on the list include [...]

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Promoting PYD through Native Organizations

 

I attended a White House Roundtable discussion this afternoon focused on American Indian and Alaskan Native youth.  The highlight was the ‘youth panel’ that was comprised of Debra Naaqtuuq Dommek from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council in Alaska and Juanita Toledo of United National Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY).  Both did an excellent job discussing the [...]

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