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: Nonprofit
May 13, 2010 | Thursday | 4 Comments
Nora Roberts’ ADWOFF fan community is raising money for flood victims to donate to Disaster Recovery Services of Dyer County, TN, where one of their community members lives. Dyersburg is about 3 hours away from Nashville. You can see aerial footage of the flooding in Dyersburg on YouTube. According to the Dyer Disaster website they are “a volunteer group which provides Recovery Services in the event of a disaster affecting the residents of Dyer County, Tennessee. We do so by coordinating the work of governmental authorities, non-profit organizations, businesses, and caring individuals to meet the needs of persons in Dyer…
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March 12, 2009 | Thursday | 6 Comments
Attention everyone who is interested in the professional and academic reputation of the romance genre: Dr. Sarah of the Professors Brilliant is accepting applications for a host of positions, from treasurer to membership chair, as well as positions within the soon-to-be-awesome IASPR Journal.
So if you’re looking to be a part of the awesome and have the skillz to help out, take a look over there for the full details. I’ve republished the deets below the fold.
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November 28, 2008 | Friday | 12 Comments
I found this amazing and inspiring article on the Yahoo!News Book/Publishing News page, which lately is about as full of good news as the Dow Jones industrial average. A young man in Albuquerque raised over $6000.00 to help build a library in Ethiopia as part of a nonprofit charity’s efforts to improve literacy in that country. Ethiopia Reads has built 30 libraries and aims for 100 by 2010. Tobyn Pulice raised the money by selling “Shout Outs” for .25c during morning announcements at school, which brought in $1800, and then helped organize a community golf tournament. Ethiopia Reads was founded…
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September 17, 2008 | Wednesday | 69 Comments
Thanks to Joanna for the heads up: Bitch Magazine is in danger of folding. Oh, HELLS No. But yes, the folks who run it need massive help. Bitch is a not-for-profit, and their donations are often small ones from a slew of folks. So if you’re interested, head on over to make a donation, and watch their wiener (dog) grow. We, by which I mean the LLC, are donating, and I’m going to give away 10 subscriptions for 10 lucky commenters here in this thread. It doesn’t matter if you donate or not. I’ll pick 10 winners (Wieners!) - but…
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