Does the idea of writing a grant make you cringe and procrastinate in any way possible? Do you want to suggest projects at your nonprofit but don’t know how you’ll raise the funding to execute? Do you have basic writing skills but don’t know how to string together an appealing narrative? Take the fear out of grantwriting and… Continue reading Take my grantwriting class!
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Divine Ricochet, 1991 From the John Chamberlain retrospective Choices now showing at the Guggenheim through May 13.
Failure is great. It’s really scary, but it’s totally worth it, because you can’t succeed at these exponential levels until you dramatically fail. Biz Stone, Co-Founder of Twitter
OUR TIME translates the news
41% of Americans believe that young adults have been hit the hardest by the recession. Only a third of 18-34 year olds rate their financial situation as “excellent” or “good.” Young adults working full time have median weekly earnings of $448, about 6 percent less than in 2007. Why we should care: The prospects for… Continue reading OUR TIME translates the news
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. Henry Ford
Taking time away from work and our digital devices improves our health, our happiness and our productivity. But who is responsible for making sure we take that time off? A well-articulated article from Wharton tackles this truth and related question head on in a fascinating discussion of where employees’ addiction to ‘crackberrys’ comes from and… Continue reading
YouTube Seeks to Improve Nonprofit Videos
YouTube in recent weeks has turned its focus to helping nonprofits create more powerful, effective videos, with a new “playbook” guide and a chance to participate in a one-day video boot camp in San Francisco. The free 24-page guide, “YouTube for Good,” helps nonprofits devise attention-grabbing names and code their videos’ descriptions to make them… Continue reading YouTube Seeks to Improve Nonprofit Videos
My friend Mairead sent me this gorgeous photo she took of a sunset in France. New desktop background!
From a new blog of Starbucks misspellings. This one is supposed to read ‘Emily’. Kind of funny, kind of sad. My proposed resolution: favorite shape or simple picture! Then we could get hexagons with five sides!
I was on a Canadian radio show because of a neat segment on bedbug reproduction that I did with Matt Long-Middleton. The sex positive show, Audio Smut, airs on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal once a month. The audio clip here is just my science-informed, comedy-enhanced segment, but if you have time, listen to the… Continue reading
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