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WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Montgomery County is partnering with the nation’s foremost authority on philanthropy to host a funding seminar this month geared toward nonprofits that serve immigrants.
Anita Plotinsky, director of the Foundation Center’s D.C. office, said it’s part of a larger effort regionwide to educate nonprofits on their funding options.
Year-round, the center offers free classes on fundraising and puts out information on nonprofit trends. Plotinsky said the agency also has expanded its reach into Montgomery, with the establishment of a cooperative collection in the new Rockville Library that provides a database of resources for nonprofit agencies.
The Aug. 28 seminar will include a demonstration on using these databases.
“It’s designed to help those non-profits increase their knowledge of the grant-seeking process,” she said.
Newer charity groups aiming to help immigrants may face challenges Plotinsky said, hence the need for a specialized session.
At the event, center staff will pass on information about immigrant-centered nonprofits, which increasingly are offering such services as language and job training and medical care to foreign-born residents.
According to the Foundation Center’s latest report, of the 1,605 active grant-making operating foundations in the region, close to 50 percent were spread across neighboring Maryland counties. In Maryland, the majority of the foundations and giving came from Montgomery — with $195 million in total giving.
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better spent on supporting them huh ? what a joke get rid of this Police chief..Or doe's he want to wait till an Illegal kills someone as soon as they are arrested deport them that is the law, and your job is to enforce the laws DUH..
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Please stop the Toronto Maple Leafs from invading. They kill us!
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