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Membership Hack: Association StoryCorps

Associations Now

In 2017, the American Geophysical Union created its own StoryCorps community, giving members the ability to record and share personal accounts of their work in the Earth and space sciences. Miguel Román shares childhood experiences of weathering hurricanes in Puerto Rico, which ultimately influenced his work as an Earth scientist at NASA.

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[Opinion] Millennials and the Fight Against Hate

Achieve

2017 is a year that has witnessed some of the darkest moments and events in our country in decades: Immigration and travel bans. Delayed help to Puerto Rico after devastating hurricanes. 2017 Millennial Impact Report. Restricted rights of women and the LGBTQ community. The horror of Charlottesville. will stop the hate?

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The Surprising Truth About Donor Fatigue And What Nonprofits Can Do To Avoid It

Beth Kanter

as they have to the recent hurricanes in Puerto Rico + the Caribbean ($4.6M We compared overall giving in 2016 to 2017, and we’ve actually seen significantly more giving this year than last year to date. This trend is the same for both our non-disaster projects, ($5.3M in 2017) and disaster projects ($1.7M