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The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) seeks to increase the impact of national service in specific geographic service areas for it FY 2020 RSVP COMPETITION.
CNCS has the following Focus Areas: Disaster Services; Economic Opportunity; Education; Environmental Stewardship; Healthy Futures; and Veterans and Military Families.
CNCS will host a series of webinars to introduce potential applicants to the RSVP.
Interested applicants are encouraged to send a Notice of Intent to Apply by 5PM Eastern Time on Friday, August 30, 2019. The Notice of Intent to Apply should be completed via Survey Monkey.
Applications are due by 5PM Eastern Time on Wednesday, September 25, 2019. Successful applicants will be notified by early March 2020.
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A customized collection of grant news from foundations and the federal government from around the Web.
Badari Ambatti and his wife, Roopa Hhaprakash, moved from Bengaluru, India, to Garden City Park in New York about 10 years ago, and since then, they've made a home for themselves and their daughter,...more
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"No matter how hard we work, until we get our capital aligned, we're not going to fix the problems," Cory Donovan, executive director of ImpactPHL, tells Technical.ly. That's why the nonprofit in...more
Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences recently honored three of its alumni with 2024 Outstanding Alumni Awards.Vijay Nandula, of Overland Park, Kansas, was this year's recipient of the...more
If you're looking for a way to boost your community's sense of place, researchers at Gustavson University in Sweden have just the thing. They've developed a set of five principles that community...more
Foundation: Changemakers
The US may be the world's top emitter of carbon dioxide, but the European Union is No. 1 when it comes to researching and developing green technologies. In fact, the EU is No. 1 when it...more
When Brazil takes over the presidency of the G20 in 2024, it will be the first country to do so from the developing world. But a new report from the Chatham House think tank warns that Brazil...more
When Josh Fryday joined the California Service Corps as a 17-year-old high school senior, he never imagined he'd end up as the state's chief service officer. But that's about to change. The...more
Google has a new privacy-related headache to deal with: its own self-driving car. In a blog post, the company explains that it plans to start testing its own self-driving car in the US next year,...more
If you work for one of the world's biggest companies, there's a good chance you've never heard of social enterprise. That's the concept of "social, social, and governance" that focuses on...more
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This Social Innovation Helps Prevent Bed Sores in Wheelchair Users
Co-founders William Mann and David Mravyan devised the Sensimat during a mandatory project for their MBA at the Richard Ivey School of Business in Canada. Sensimat is a device that helps manage and assess pressure among wheelchair users.
