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Please Help the Families of Newtown

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Categories: YourMembership.com News Tags: donation , Sandy Hook Elementary School On December 14, 2012 an extreme tragedy struck Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

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Take a Vacation From Email

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The Hickory Stick Bookshop, Washington Depo, Connecticut. Shephaug River, Connecticut. Books read on vacation 2012: Learned Optimism , Martin E. Music list for vacation 2012: The Hangover Part II: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. The kids see me on email plenty during the working part of the year. Seligman, Ph.D.

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My favorite comments on my 2012 blog posts

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Here are my favorite comments from some of my 2012 blog posts (in reverse chronological order). Lastly, please note that not all 2012 blog posts are represented below. One thing is clear… Avengers and cobwebs motivated readers to comment (and at times, comment extensively) like nothing else in 2012! Thanks, Lorna.

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After Sandy Hook, Why a Newtown-Based Gun Group Stayed There

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The National Shooting Sports Foundation, which has called Newtown, Connecticut, home for two decades, says it considered moving its headquarters after last year’s school shooting, but staff members urged the leadership to stay in town. Here’s why. The gun control debate hadn’t had a flash point quite like Newtown before.

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Volunteers: How Much Is Your Time Worth?

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Just in time for National Volunteer Week, April 21-27, Independent Sector released its 2012 estimate of the value of volunteer time. Washington, DC, ranked highest at $34.04, followed by New York ($28.73), Connecticut ($28.26), and Massachusetts ($27.43). According to Independent Sector, an hour of volunteer time was worth $22.14

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5 Ways to Make LinkedIn Board Connect Work for Your Nonprofit

Beth Kanter

Halpert , a LinkedIn trainer, helped a Connecticut nonprofit search for board members. Since we’re breaking ground on a new facility in the Bronx on October 23, 2012, we invited everyone to this. So I dropped the words homelessness and volunteering from my search. He found that using keywords related to its mission was critical.