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  • Should We Pour More Taxpayer Money into Faith-Based Initiatives?

    Posted July 2nd, 2008 by Suzanne Reisman

    While I visited my bubbe (that's Yiddish for grandmother) at a Catholic hospital where she was recovering from laproscopic surgery, the local news was airing on the TV in her room. It announced that Barack Obama promised to up the ante on George Bush's failed faith-based services initiative if he is elected president, pouring millions more dollars into religious organizations.

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  • Are There Too Many Nonprofits?

    Posted July 1st, 2008 by Skye Kilaen

    The nonprofit world has been abuzz lately with talk of the sheer number of nonprofit organizations. How many should we have? How many is too many? How do we get rid of some of them?

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  • Dog Rentals?

    Posted June 30th, 2008 by Alex Elliot

    I have always had a dog.  I grew up with dogs and as an adult I now own a dog.  It is my  love of dogs that made me want to be a veterinarian. 

     

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  • Public or Private School? Where to send Junior?

    Posted June 26th, 2008 by Kurt Schwengel

        You may already have your opinions on private and public schools and it probably depends on where you went and how it worked out for you.

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  • Public Recognition

    Posted June 23rd, 2008 by Alex Elliot

    I vividly remember my younger brother's first month because it coincided with my family's move to a new state. I was 4.5 years old at the time, and my mother left him with my aunt and my 9 month-old cousin and took me to a public sprinkler pad as a special treat for being a big sister.

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  • iKids: How to Teach them!

    Posted June 22nd, 2008 by Kurt Schwengel

         Many people, including myself, spend a lot of time knocking the American education system but let me tell you one place where I think they are doing alright or at least headed in the right direction.

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Popular Blogs by Members

  • Rewarding Chores

    Posted June 27th, 2008 by Josie

    Working with the Volunteer Chore Program has proved to be very rewarding, not only for myself as the Program Director, but also for the 100+ volunteers that put in their time and talents each year to help seniors and adults with disabilities who are low-income in our community.

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  • Livestrong

    Posted June 26th, 2008 by d_dtuttle

    I, like most people, know about the Livestrong Challenge because I know about Lance Armstrong.  In early July, 2003, I had barely heard of Lance Armstrong.  A friend encouraged me to watch that year’s edition of the Tour de France.  I laughed,  There is no way, I said.  Guys in lycra?

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  • Rewarding Chores

    Posted June 30th, 2008 by Josie

    Working with the Volunteer Chore Program has proved to be very rewarding, not only for myself as the Program Director, but also for the 100+ volunteers that put in their time and talents each year to help seniors and adults with disabilities who are low-income in our community.

    Read more
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