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Selected Press:
"Students in City for Phoenix Project Program" On June 3rd, Senator Henry Marsh welcomed the 2010 Class of the Social Innovation Program as the Comcast Foundation announced a 3 year $75,000 grant to the Phoenix Project in support of the program. [Progress Index]
"Grant Aims to Use Web/College Students to Alleviate Poverty" In 2008, the Phoenix Project was awarded a half-million dollars from the Corporation for National and Community Service to explore ways that social media could be harnessed to increase the quantity and quality of college students' community service. [Richmond Times Dispatch]
"New Online Network to Connect College Volunteers" Coverage of the Phoenix Project's social media grant. [Washington Business Journal]
"Phoenix Project Receives $500k Grant" More on the Phoenix Project's social media grant. [Progress Index]
"Mark Warner Headlines Phoenix Project Luncheon" Coverage of the Phoenix Project's first Accelerating Social Entrepreneurship conference, keynoted by Mark Warner [Mount Vernon Voice]
Columns by Phoenix Project Staff:
Greg Werkheiser’s latest columns on nonprofit sustainability and social entrepreneurship for the Chronicle Newspapers of Northern Virginia:
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"Nonprofits May Need to Merge in Order to Survive" on the benefits of nonprofit mergers.
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"Free Talent is High Octane Fuel for NOVA Nonprofits" describes the promise of university-community partnerships.
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"Social Enterprise: Do Good While Doing Well" argues that nonprofit should seek earned income streams.