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Where to give in 2018
It’s just about the end of year, when capitalists try to persuade you to buy a bunch of crap and tender-hearted do-gooders engage in a death-brawl to get your remaining few dollars. I’d like to take this opportunity to shamelessly plug the people I work for (paid and unpaid) throughout the year: INMED Partnerships for…
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Interview with The Event Supremacy Podcast
ESP 020: 5 Nonprofit Fundraiser Essentials with Rebecca Andruszka
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Quoted: Spark: Growing New Roots
“We have seen that immigrant and refugee families are really excited by the idea of gardening,” says Denver Urban Gardens Director of Development & Communications Rebecca Andruszka. “For some, it is certainly to help supplement their food budgets as they establish employment, but others are just used to gardening and farming – they enjoy it,…
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Quoted: Give Magazine: An Idea in Bloom
“One of the most inspiring things [about this project] is the fact that all three organizations could come together and have all of our respective strengths represented in this partnership,” says Rebecca Andruszka of Denver Urban Gardens. pages 12-13, full text: http://www.denverfoundation.org/GiveMagazine-Summer2017/index.html
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Quoted: The Denver Post: City of Denver cuts funding for Denver-area free seeds program
Rebecca Andruszka, DUG’s development and communications director, said the organization had already announced the 2016 Free Seeds and Transplants program when it received the news about the funding cut. “There wasn’t a whole lot of backpedaling we could do at that point. Internally, we took a hard look at some areas where we could make…
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Quoted: NPR: Healthy Eaters, Strong Minds: What School Gardens Teach Kids
Rebecca Andruszka, who works with DUG, says her friend’s children will only eat vegetables from the garden at school — not from the grocery store. “I think it’s just that it seems less foreign when you’re a part of the growing process,” Andruska says. Full Text: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/10/426741473/healthy-eaters-strong-minds-what-school-gardens-teach-kids
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An Interview with Photographer and Do-Gooder, Erica Reade
Today I spoke with photographer Erica Reade, who married her passion for social justice and her love for photography and the arts, in her position as Program Director at Leave Out Violence (LOVE). Erica and I met while we were both involved in social justice in NYC (and she took my headshot on the front page!).…
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Event Supremacy: 5 Nonprofit Fundraiser Essentials with Rebecca Andruszka
Event Supremacy: 5 Nonprofit Fundraiser Essentials with Rebecca Andruszka I was interviewed on this podcast about planning fundraisers. I have not actually listened to it yet, as I’m a little nervous about hearing my voice, so if someone can listen and let me know if it’s okay, I’d appreciate it.
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What is education really worth?
Although education for African children is a popular charitable project, governments and NGOs are pressured to keep costs ridiculously low in areas that don’t always have the resources or infrastructure to run schools effectively in the first place. Although I know that budget struggles are not particular to Africa, the greater amount of international funding…