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Catholic Charities Seeks Community Support Amid Federal Funding Cuts
Nevada Business Magazine
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June 5, 2025
(June 3, 2025 – Reno, Nev.) – With the anticipated sunset of key federal funding on June 30, Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada (CCNN) faces a projected $1.5 million budget shortfall. To help bridge the gap and maintain essential services amid...
Local Non-Profit ensures meaningful summer experience for area youths
Sidney Sun Telegraph - Nebraska
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June 5, 2025
LODGEPOLE--One of the area's great treasures is the Sullivan Hills Camp, located just north of Lodgepole in Cheyenne County. Operated by the Nebraska Outdoor Lutheran Ministries, the camp was started in 1997 with a generous donation of family...
NGO moves to tackle preventable deaths, out-of-school children in rural areas
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 5, 2025
Benevolentia Aid Initiative, a non-governmental organisation founded by gospel music artist Adejumobi Oluwatosin Akinkunmi, has launched a dual campaign targeting preventable deaths and the rising number of out-of-school children in underserved...
COMMUNITY DIGEST: June 5, 2025
Standard Speaker - Pennsylvania
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June 5, 2025
Greater Hazleton Area Anthracite Region of the Antique Automobile Club of America car cruise: 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday June 7 (rain date Sunday, June 8). Leiby’s Ice Cream House, Tamaqua. Dash plaques awarded to first 50 cars; door prizes. Food...
Better Cotton taps exec from global non-profit as new CEO
Home Textiles Today - North Carolina
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June 5, 2025
Geneva – Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, has hired anew CEO to lead the organization. Nick Weatherill is the former executive director of the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI), a nonprofit funded by major...
How an Oregon Community Group Fought a Factory Farm and Won
Sentient Media
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June 5, 2025
Teresa Mitchell Clausen was almost finished with her shift at a local farm store when a customer came in looking to buy a fruit tree. During their exchange, he said he was a land scout for Foster Farms, and began telling her about the five-year...
Ministers applaud NGO's climate action and community resilience work in Northern Ghana
Graphic
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June 5, 2025
Two Ministers have commended Changing Lives in Innovative Partnerships (CLIP), a Tamale-based non-governmental organisation, for its dedicated efforts in tackling climate change and promoting sustainable livelihoods in northern Ghana. During...
Aledo non-profit offers hope and community to loss mothers
The Community News - Texas
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Peyton Lauderdale holding a photo of her son James. Courtesy of Gathering Hope Born on April 6, 2014, James Marcus Lauderdale lived a total of just 18 hours, but his legacy survives to this very day. The son of Peyton Lauderdale of Gathering Hope...
Cynoia Brings Project Management to 200 Million More Africans with Swahili and Wolof Language Support
TechTrendsKE
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June 5, 2025
Cynoia, which provides a professional collaboration software suite has introduced a major upgrade as it now supports Swahili and Wolof languages. The new feature provides access to more than 200 million people in East and West Africa, enabling...
Las Vegas non-profit overwhelmed with animal abandonment calls
KLAS - Nevada
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June 5, 2025
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — As animal abandonment issues grow in Las Vegas, non-profit Pawtastic Friends founder, Melissa Novelli, told 8 News Now, they have been overwhelmed with calls. The non-profit, founded in 2016, trains shelter and rescue dogs to...
Germany vows continued support of Israel as FM visits Berlin
Deutsche Welle
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June 5, 2025
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar met with his German counterpart, Johann Wadephul, in Berlin on Thursday. The meeting took place a day after Wadephul promised that Germany would send more arms to Israel despite growing international calls for...
Cameroon tops refugee NGO's list of most neglected displacement crises
Modern Ghana
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A new report released by the Norwegian Refugee Council has placed Cameroon at the top of an annual list of the most neglected global displacement crises, highlighting a sharp decline in international support. Despite hosting hundreds of thousands...
Okada Manila’s scholarship programme supports agricultural education
GGRAsia
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June 5, 2025
The Okada Manila casino resort in the Philippine capital says it has partnered with the School for Experiential and Entrepreneurial Development (SEED Philippines) to offer scholarships to young Filipinos. The programme aims to “support...
NGO runs one-week training on mental health and counselling in Lae
The National
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FEMILI PNG, Lae branch, conducted a week-long training workshop on mental health recently. The training was funded by the Femili PNG, Australia branch, which was focused on critical topics such as mental health, counselling, suicide prevention,...
Increased user fees stifling non-profit groups: Vernon Chamber
Salmon Arm Observer
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The Greater Vernon Chamber of Commerce is calling on the city of Vernon to reassess the large fee increase for non-profit user groups in the community. The Greater Vernon Chamber of Commerce (GVCC) is pleading with the City of Vernon to reassess...
Non-profit helping LVMPD dispatcher’s family after daughter’s cancer diagnosis
Fox 5 Las Vegas - Nevada
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June 5, 2025
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - An LVMPD dispatcher’s family is in crisis after a child’s overnight leukemia diagnosis and a sudden move out of state. After two years serving the community, Holly Danforth has relocated to Memphis to be by her daughter’s...
Trans migrant Göksu Başaran faces housing crisis in the Netherlands: “Am I supposed to live on the streets?”
Kaos GL
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05/06/2025 | Writer: Oğulcan Özgenç Living in the Netherlands with temporary worker status, Başaran was evicted from company-provided housing. She applied to the Westland Municipality for her right to housing, but her requests went unanswered....
Algeria expels over 16,000 migrants to Niger in two-month crackdown
Switch TV
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June 5, 2025
ASSAMAKA, Niger — In the scorching desert border town of Assamaka, northern Niger, truckloads of weary migrants keep arriving most of them expelled from neighbouring Algeria. Since April, Algerian authorities have deported more than 16,000...
Africa’s First ‘Life Pod’ Launches in Cape Town to Save Lives Through Organ Donation
Newspaper
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June 5, 2025
A dedicated specialised support unit for organ donors – dubbed the “Life Pod” – was officially launched at the Tygerberg Hospital on Wednesday, 4 June 2025. The groundbreaking facility, the first of its kind in Africa, is the flagship achievement...
Microsoft’s Free Cyber Security Support to European Governments Reflects ‘Deep, Enduring, Unwavering’ Commitment
TechRepublic
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June 5, 2025
Microsoft offers free cyber security assistance to all European governments to help them fend off hackers. The European Security Program is specifically intended to address cyber threats involving artificial intelligence, such as deepfakes. The...