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Polish Orchestra Plays Mozart In Protest

AP | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Chamber Opera, Mozart, Poland, Budget Cuts, Opera, Polish Opera Protest, Funding, Orchestra, Bogdan Zdrojewski, Warsaw Opera, Culture Minister, Requiem, Opera Budget Cuts, Arts News

WARSAW, Poland — A Polish opera house has performed Mozart's Requiem – a funeral piece – in front of the Culture Ministry in Warsaw ...

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NEA Has No Love For PBS

AP | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Pbs, Metropolitan Opera, Video, Arts Grants, Independent Lens, Arts, American Masters, Funding, Pbs Newshour, Live From Lincoln Center, Nea, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts News

NEW YORK — The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded significantly smaller grants to established PBS programs this year. "Live From Linco...

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Italian Museum Burns Art To Protest Lack Of Funding

AP | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Private Museum, Video, Art, Antonio Manfredi, Rosaria Matarese, Museums, Italy, Funding, Painting, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Arts News

ROME — For a second day in a row, the director of a contemporary art museum in a small Italian town near Naples has burned a painting to protest...

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America's Public Schools: Still Unequal And Unjust

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Resources, Latino, Low-Minority, Arne Duncan, Expulsion Rate, Teacher Salaries, Funding, High-Minority, Teacher Salary, Out-of-School Suspensions, African American, Civil Rights, Low-Performing Schools, Grade Retention, Racism, Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection Survey, Discrimination, Black, Dropout, Public Education, African-Americans, African Americans, Tracking, The Great Equalizer, Department of Education, Zero Tolerance, Office for Civil Rights, Ineffective Teachers, Education, Secretary of Education, Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, Teachers, Inequality, Home News

The struggle to make sure a quality education is available to every child -- and not just a privilege for a few -- is the unfinished and critical business before the nation for it will determine America's future place on the global stage in a rapidly changing competitive world.

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Paradise Lost: Can We Keep Nonprofits From Failing?

Richard Dare | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Classical Music, Nonprofit, Nonprofits, Innovation, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Funding, Entrepreneurship, Music, Business Models, Business, Arts Funding, Business Model, Impact News

The underlying business model of the nonprofit is too inadequate, and the need for our services is too fast-growing, and society's understanding of the situation isn't all that it might be.

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Help Support The Beauty Of The Afro

Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Photography, Hairstyles, Coffee Table Book, Video, Michael July, Art Funding, Kickstarter, Natural Hair, Afros, Funding, Afro-Hair, Hair, Portrait Photography, Arts News

If you've ever seen Chris Rock's hilarious, yet thought-provoking documentary "Good Hair," then you recognize the cultural significance of unbridled, ...

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Meet D.C.'s Dean Of 'Awesome'

The Huffington Post | Megan Arellano | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Video, Bonnie Shaw, District of Columbia, Dc Impact, Awesome Foundation, Grants, Funding, Awesome Foundation Dc, D.C., Awesome, Impact, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Bonnie Shaw holds a couple of different titles in this city; cofounder of 24 Hour City Project, director of strategy at iStrategyLabs. B...

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Why the Environmental Movement Is Not Winning

Peter Montague | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Environment, Environmentalism, Green Movement, Funding, Climate Change Funding Data, Environmental Funding, Green Initiative, Climate Change Data, Green Initiatives, Green News

The way to build a broad movement around environment and climate solutions is to mobilize diverse communities of people around issues that are much closer to their self-interest.

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The Important Work of Planned Parenthood

Jennifer Hamady | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Reproduction, Susan G Komen, Women's Rights, Breast Cancer Screenings, The Huffington Post, Breast Cancer, Funding, Recording Artists, Komen for the Cure, Politics, Minute Appointments, Entire Organization, Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, Touring, Performing, Abortion, Susan G Komen for the Cure, Gynecological Exams, Rape, Bullying, Affordable Care, Daughters, Planned Parenthood Locations, Entertainment Companies, Planned Parenthood, Mothers, Health and Wellness, Ups, Traveling, Fellow Singers, Komen, Gynecological Services, Sexually Transmitted Disease, Check Ups, Cecile Richards, Cure Foundation, Foundations, Women News

Villainizing the entire organization is a mistake. It ignores, and dismisses, the services Planned Parenthood provides that we all -- regardless of our political views -- can agree are important.

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Federal Investments in Scientific Research Must Remain a Priority

Michael Ham | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Taxes, Science, Funding, Congress, Medicine, Ivf, Scientific Research, Federal Budget Deficit, Scientific Funding, Federal Grants, Science News

Pages of facts and statistics cannot adequately describe the impact research has on the lives of everyday Americans and the necessity of federal science funding.

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The Best $750 I Ever Spent Bootstrapping My Startup: One Plane Ticket West

Women 2.0 | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Four Hour Work Week, Leah Busque, Facebook Fund, Startup Funding, Tim Ferriss, Ann Miura-Ko, Taskrabbit, Startup Advisor, Investor Funding, Raising Capital, Funding, Dave McClure, Fbfund, Floodgate Fund, Women in Tech, Technology News

It was Friday and it had been a long week. I was back in Boston after spending the last two weeks in Palo Alto, participating in the Facebook Fund program (fbFund).

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No Non-Profit Should Be Left Behind

Marc Joseph | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Non-Profit Foundations, Funding Nonprofits, Non Profit, Funding Non-Profits, Economy, Economic Crisis, Non-Profit, Donating to Charity, Nonprofit, Nonprofits, Funding, Donating to Non-Profits, Impact News

Why do our nonprofits continue to report having less money to provide the services our society has counted on them to deliver?

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A 5-Part Plan for the President to Fight the Banks "Every Inch of the Way"

Dennis M. Kelleher | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Regulatory Agencies, Crimes, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Financial Reform, Bailouts, Funding, Obama, Rulemaking, Financial Fraud, Fraud, Finance, Regulatory Reform, Financial Crisis, Bank Bailout, Financial Regulation, Banking, Banks, Politics News

It is past time for the president to let his actions speak for him and they will speak louder than any of his words. That is what the American people are waiting for. That is also what the banks, Wall Street and their allies fear most.

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U.S. Postal Service Defers Federal Payment, Easing Heavy Losses

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Deficit, Congress, Video, U.S. Postal Service, Budget Gaps, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, Internet Usage, Losses, Funding, Budget Woes, Business News

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service said Tuesday it has lost $5.1 billion in the past year, pushing it closer to imminent default on a multibil...

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5 Ways To Fund Your Big Idea

Dev Aujla | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Philanthropy, Funding, Social Entrepreneurship, Charity, Impact News

Over the last eight years, I have managed to raise over $1 million dollars from foundations and organizations for ideas that began as nothing more tha...

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Republican Leaders Spin Funding Tall Tales

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Politics, Republican Party, Video, Republican Lies, Gop Lies, Budget, Economy, Gop, Funding, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON — It's an outrageous tale: The federal government spends one out of every $10 in transportation aid on wasteful projects such as refu...

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The Federal Budget Cannot Be Balanced on the Back of America's Lands and Waters

Mark Tercek | Posted 09.23.2011

Read More: Green News, Conservation, The Nature Conservancy, House of Representatives, Congress, Legislation, Funding, Spending, Mark Tercek, Interior and Environment Appropriations Bill, Green News

Conservation did not cause the budget deficit and cutting conservation cannot fix the deficit.

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Three States Win Millions To Fix Failing Schools

Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: School Improvement Grants, North Dakota, Education, Indiana, Washington DC, Funding, Wyoming, Education Reform, Education News

Yesterday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that Washington, D.C. and 3 states would receive School Improvement Grants (SIG) to turn aroun...

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Race To The Top Kicks Off With 37 Applicants

Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Education, Charter Schools, Grants, Race to the Top, Preschool, Early Childhood Education, Funding, Barack Obama, Education News

36 states and Washington, D.C. have announced their intention to apply for a piece of the $500 million to be split amongst the winners of the Race to ...

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Cutting Conservation Cannot Fix the Deficit

Mark Tercek | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: House of Representatives, The Nature Conservancy, Spending, Interior and Environment Appropriations Bill, Conservation, Congress, Funding, Legislation, Mark Tercek, Green News

Conservation spending did not cause the budget deficit and cutting conservation cannot fix the deficit. The Interior and Environment bill cuts too deeply into conservation programs.

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In Weiner's District, A Chorus Of Cheers

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Weiner, Weinergate, Anthony Weiner, Congress, Twitter, Anthony Weiner Twitter, Queens, Nonprofits, Community Organizing, Funding, Ny-09, New York News

On May 31, approximately 84 hours after he tweeted the picture that has now nearly destroyed his political career, Anthony Weiner delivered a very dif...

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Fighting Cuts to Child Care

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Fund, Childrens, New York, Children, Mayor Bloomberg, Marian Wright Edelman, Child Watch, Funding, Cdf, Column, Mwe, Defense, Nyc, Child Care, Cuts to Child Care, Bloomber, Children's, Impact News

New York City parent Yvonne works as a home care attendant to help support her 3-year-old son Darnell. Earlier this year she received a letter saying he would be dropped from the program.

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The Myth of "Throwing Money at the Problem"

Matt Cohen | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Funding, Education, Public Education, Education Reform, Education Policy, Education News

What would happen if we really did throw money at the serious shortcomings within the education system?

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Pelosi: 'I Feel No Responsibility' To Pass Budget Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 06.14.2011

WASHINGTON -- Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives, said on Thursday she feels no obligation to pass the bill to fund govern...

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Venture Capitalists Aren't Investing In Black Entrepreneurs

Mike Green | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Investments, Black Innovation, Financing, Angel Investing, Equity, Black America, Angel Investors, Economy, Early Stage Companies, Ecosystems, Funding, Innovation Economy, Innovation, Entrepreneurs, Venture Capital, Angels, Invest, Investors, Entrepreneurial, Investing, Enterprise, High-Growth Companies, Unemployment, Angel Capital, Private, Venture, Venture Capital Investors, Startups, Innovative, Entrepreneurship, STEM Education, Small Business, Small Business America, Business News

Investing in high-growth companies creates jobs while generating more wealth for investors. The formula has worked for the private venture capital investment community. Unfortunately, no such active community exists in black America.

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