This nationwide initiative will award $25,000 grants to individuals to help complete community projects. Passionate, inspiring candidates with a project that could make a lasting change in their community can enter at www.MarkhamMarkofDistinction.com. Tags: RFP community grants Del Bondio said.

An education opportunity notice: The Latin American Cancer Research Coalition (LACRC) is sponsoring the Social Marketing for Health in the Latino Community course, which will be offered by the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business.  A limited number of scholarships are available (for audit only).

Today's Diva Marketing Talks takes a dive into Social Media Communities or social networks. If there is value in social communities then how do you build and nurture them? In other words how do you get the "community" into communities? Liz Strauss Liz ( Successful Blog ) is a social web strategist and community builder.

Theatre Communications Group Offers Travel Grants Deadline: April 30, 2007 The Theatre Communications Group ( [link] ) is inviting applications for TCG/ITI Travel Grants, which support travel in either direction between theater professionals in the U.S. From The Foundation Center. Below, are three grants. RFP Link: [link] RFP Link: [link] 3.

The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business by Tara Hunt - April 21, 2009 5. Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business by Larry Weber - Mar 3, 2009 6. The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web by Tamar Weinberg - Jun 15, 2009 15. Ta da.

Last week an interesting new initiative was launched by the team at Social Actions – whose open source database of microphilanthropic opportunities from over 50 different non-profits I wrote about in April this year. For more information visit socialentrepreneurapi.org.

Each year, the NTEN community helps scores of local nonprofits in the conference’s host city , and this year I signed up to assist the Furniture Bank. This video was taken by Elliot Greenberger of See3 Communications at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Atlanta, April 8, 2010. Sound familiar? and talking about their website.

The James Irvine Foundation just published a paper to advise grant donors how to effect better and more change in our communities. provide tangible examples of design options, best practices, and common challenges of [Long Term Capacity Building (LTCB)] initiatives. Then, understand what grant donors' latest thinking is. Very telling.

The contest will award a total of $10,000 in grants, funded by the Case Foundation, to the best videos of the year found in the YouTube Nonprofit Program —a special program that YouTube designed to help nonprofits achieve their missions. Winners will be announced on April 10 at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Atlanta.

Last week an interesting new initiative was launched by the team at Social Actions – whose open source database of microphilanthropic opportunities from over 50 different non-profits I wrote about in April this year. For more information visit socialentrepreneurapi.org.