I heart this organization. Well, by now you know I like nonprofits and organizations whose mission is to fill a void, connect people or serve an honorable purpose.Its back to school time and Donors Choose is doing it once again. A single organization that connects teachers and educators with great ideas for learning projects with people in the public who can fund them....

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Ohio's first African American Congresswomen and my mentor, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, passed away of a brain aneurysm yesterday. I interned for her Cleveland office during the summer following my freshman year in college and though that work is unpaid, I gained an invaluable experience. When I continued in the fall at Howard U, I'd see the Congresswoman on occasion at events and she'd...

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I have 2 young nephews, one budding genius that will be start kindergarten next fall and a smaller on with talent yet unknown. As I searched the internet today for things they can do on the internet and in my neighborhood to stimulate their minds, I stumbled across Starfall, my site of the day.I'm obviously a kid at heart because I browsed through...

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Most creative site of the day: Freecycle."The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,566 groups with 5,605,000 members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills."So, you sign up with the group in your city and...

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"The intimate link between school failure and incarceration is clear at the bottom of the education ladder where 60 percent of black, male high school dropouts will go to prison before age thirty-five."Did you read that carefully? 60% of Black, male high dropouts will go to prison before turning 35 years old.We all know there's a correlation between education level and your salary,...

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I haven’t always felt gorgeous. Shocking, I know, but throughout my life there have always been women I thought of as unbelievably beautiful reassuring me of my intelligence and great I am. I don’t really know how I would have turned out without those positive reinforcements. I mean I got the usual undying support from my mom but in elementary & middle school...

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Ok, I feel like I have good ideas and good intentions like most people, but I feel as though I am not living up to my potential. But why? That Marianne Williamson quote comes to mind:That is definitely the case for me. I've been meeting with people all summer talking about grad school, nonprofits, working in Cleveland, etc. My mentor/boss-person gave me the...

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So, I was surfing BlackGivesBack and came across this video by Jennifer Witter, PR Expert for Inc.com and founder/president of her own PR company.She has a short video (2 mins) on ways to get the media interested in your org, business or cause. Very interesting and helpful if you are involved in any of these. If not, you may be able to use...

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So, my room is a mess.Partly because I do several things concurrently, partly because I hate to clean it up. Like now, I have a pile of college brochures on the floor. You may be thinking, "M, you’ve already graduated from college and you’ll be starting grad school this month, why do you need college brochures?"Great question. Quick answer, I don’t. But somebody...

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