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Mountaintop Removal (MTR) is a very effective form of coal mining. Conventional coal mining involved miners tunneling underground...
Written by Jennifer Donley Convey
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The Public Welfare Foundation (PWF) is a private grant-making organization based in Washington, DC. Founded in 1947 by newspaper magnate Charles Marsh, the foundation has been a leader in the...
Written by Jeremy Morse
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Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is the name given to the 2011 nonviolent protest movement organized to address the perceived inequalities of the US financial system following the recession of 2007-2010. The invitation to...
Written by Elizabeth A. Eastin
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The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) was founded by David Horton Smith in 1971 at Boston College. ARNOVA is a registered 501(c)(3) organization and...
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GoFundMe is a for-profit organization that facilitates online donations to individuals and charities. The organization launched in 2010 and has raised over four billion dollars from more than forty million...
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Kiwanis International is a global, volunteer-led membership-based organization consisting of individual Kiwanis Clubs. Kiwanis members select various projects that empower communities to improve the world by...
Written by Ryan Duncan
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Hunger is simply weakness or discomfort due to a lack of food. It can just be temporary, but for too many people it can be a persistent and harmful condition, one that leads to malnutrition, which...
Written by Marilyn Goellner
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Bernie Sanders identifies himself as a democratic socialist, someone who believes in "an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy” (Gaudiano, 2015).
In 2015, he was named Time Magazine...
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No DAPL was a movement in the U....
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The nonprofit sector in Nigeria comprises “private, voluntary, nonprofit organizations, and associations” (Anheier 2014, 4). Organizations within the nonprofit sector in Nigeria are referred to as...