Your Cultural Clipping Service has gathered up some useful gems from the past week that you might have missed. Tags: arts marketing community cultural clipping service cultural marketing facebook fundraising market research marketing nonprofit marketing online research social media social networking surveys technology tools

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This digital community (social network) should weave together the strands of social marketing that now exist. An equally important, and ambitious, step is to attract programs and people to get involved in the community - to stake their claim to becoming part of a social marketing community.

Deadline: April 30, 2009 Entries Invited for Wachovia NEXT Awards for Opportunity Finance The aim of the Wachovia NEXT Awards for Opportunity Finance is to propel Community Development Financial Institutions to a higher level of growth, success, and sustainability. Tags: community building RFP grants From The Foundation Center.

In a recent post of The Cohen Report, Social Entrepreneurism at the Public Trough , Rick Cohen shines a flashlight on the primary form of entrepreneurism of many of the leading national community service groups: Federal government funding. Tags: social entrepreneurs community service national service

The reception from the arts community seems positive so far. Blogger Ian David Moss gives an impressive overview of what we know and don’t know about culture’s role in community revitalization , including links to all the studies you should read if you’re at all interested in the issue. Previously on Your Cultural Clipping Service.

Rebecca Coleman profiles Vancouverites in their twenties who are shaking up the theater community there. Did you have a lot going on this week? Well, never fear. Your clippings have arrived and you’ll be up to speed in no time. Now have a cup of tea. 65 Million Crescendo for Curtis. When was the last time you saw a headline like that?

We at The Grant Plant, LLC want to understand what nonprofits need from the services that they hire, today, given the economy; so please take our short survey. The Jenny's Heroes program awards grants to individuals who submit the best ideas for tangible, lasting community projects. [Please help us. Click on: Nonprofit Needs Survey.

Our friends at Enterprise Community Partners (a nonprofit national leader in investment capital and development services for affordable housing and community revitalization) spent some time wondering, and a whole lot more time acting. Does this sound familiar? quot;Prior to 2008, we had no coordinated online plan.

He wondered why equate the required service of students with volunteerism. It’s a great question because by definition required service isn’t voluntary.  Tags: Social Media Mobilize.org Roger Carr The Corporation for National and Community Service The Networked Nonprofit