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TechnoServe and Cargill launching entrepreneur development program in Venezuela to help promising small businesses overcome obstacles to growth; Cargill investing $590,000 over three years.

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As fundraising dollars become more scarce, development professionals need to sharpen their messaging, deploy their advocates and dive into social media.

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Since 2005, the Morgan Creek Foundation has sought and provided support to education-related nonprofits, increasing its grantmaking during the worst of the recession.

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Investment in nonprofit media is relatively small but growing, and needs closer attention from grantmakers, which themselves fail to track or make that investment easily accessible or build media into the way they work, a new report says.

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Local officials want more taxes from Princeton; nonprofit board vigilance one outcome of CEO firing; and more.

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Laura Hitt named finance officer for Action for Children North Carolina, Raleigh.

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Joe Arrington sold 64-acre parcel of land and donated additional 46 acres, called Richland Creek Headwaters Tract, to Conservation Trust for N.C., which will convey land to National Park Service to be included in Blue Ridge Parkway.

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Goodwill Industries of Northwest North Carolina, Winston-Salem, received 2010 Joel A. Weston Jr. Memorial Award for exceptional ogranizational excellence from Joel A. Weston Memorial Fund.

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Jossey-Bass published "The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause," book by Kivi Leroux-Miller and Katya Andresen.

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Blackbaud selected to be exclusive nonprofit sales channel for ThePort Network social networking solutions.

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Brooklyn Community Foundation awarded grants totaling $2.5 million to more than 170 nonprofits in Brooklyn's 70 neighborhoods.

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John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation providing additional $500,000 to loan fund it created for Chicago-area arts and culture groups experiencing cash-flow problems.

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America's Promise Alliance and Simon Foundation for Education and Housing launched national partnership to expand Simon Scholar's Program, effort to increase high-school and college graduation rates.

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Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro launched Philanthropy News & Trends page on its website as portal for latest news on trends in philanthropy.

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W.K. Kellogg Foundation awarded $2.1 million grant to Grand Valley State University's Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy, Grand Rapids, Mich., to boost long-term sustainability.

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Action for Children North Carolina received $75,000 grant from Public Welfare Foundation, Washington, D.C., to advocate for changing age of juvenile court jurisdiction in North Carolina to 18 from 16.

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Edward E. Ford Foundation, Portland, Maine, awarded $50,000 challenge grant to Salem College, Winston-Salem, to improve faculty salaries.

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BB&T to provide $250,000 over five years to serve as lead sponsor for new Women's Leadership Program at Salem College, Winston-Salem, beginning in fall of 2010.

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State Employees Credit Union, Raleigh, netted $66,500 to benefit patients and families at SECU Family House at UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, during statewide fundraiser.

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Online political donations are expected to reach $4 billion this coming election cycle, twice the amount for the 2008 cycle, says a new analysis from Piryx.

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