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Showing posts with label fund-raising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fund-raising. Show all posts
Thursday, July 13, 2023

One town's impressive fundraising built its community center; they have a podcast to help others learn how

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Photo from Cedar River Complex website Like many rural towns, Osage, Iowa, had a wish list: getting the pool repaired, plans for community t...
Friday, July 01, 2022

Motorcyclists trying to raise awareness about suicide with cross-country trek from North Dakota to Texas

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Route of the motorcycle ride Tomorrow, more than 50 bikers from around the U.S. will kick off a four-day, 1,700 cross-country motorcycle rid...
Friday, February 25, 2022

Local community foundations create funds for local news

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Report for America has issued a report that identified what it called "a major new trend – the creation of 'Community News Funds...
Wednesday, September 09, 2020

Farm Aid to host 35th anniversary virtual festival on Sept. 26

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Farm Aid announced recently that the organization will mark its 35th anniversary with a virtual festival. Farm Aid 2020 On the Road will a...
Friday, August 07, 2020

Quick hits: USDA says don't plant random seeds from China; what rural hospitals can teach their urban peers

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Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonance; if you do or see similar work that should be shared on The Rural Blog, email us at hea...
Monday, January 05, 2015

Kansas community turns to crowdfunding to raise money for a local grocery store

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The mostly agricultural town of Plains, Kan. ( Wikipedia map), has been holding on steady while other small towns in the area have str...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Digital conversion endangers rural theaters; Colorado using grants, fundraising to help owners

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More and more multiplexes seem to be opening, some featuring 20 or more screens, IMAX capability, stadium seating, and concession stands ...
Monday, August 06, 2012

Those who raised and gave money to save Calif. parks are upset, want refunds after stash revealed

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Coe Park supporters with a $279,000 check for the state three months ago. ( Preservation Fund photo) When cash-pinched California off...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

To keep parks open, states seek corporate sponsors

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Amid increasing budget pressures from the recession, Georgia is among a handful of states looking to corporate sponsorship to help fund stat...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Rural towns fall back on charity to celebrate July 4

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The latest victims of the economic crisis are communities forced to cancel Fourth of July festivities across the country, particularly in sm...
Friday, February 13, 2009

Southern Rural Development Initative is closing next week, after 16 years of rural advocacy

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The Southern Rural Development Initiative , a non-profit organization aimed at combating poverty and racism in the South and creating econom...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

Rural giving to presidential candidates scarce, but mostly Democratic

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Only five percent of contributions presidential candidates got in the first quarter of the year came from people who listed addresses in cou...