Non Profit Global Team for Local Initiatives received a $387,000 grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to create clean water and sanitation programs in Ethiopia.  This grant will allow the nonprofit to deliver hygiene training, wells and cisterns to around 3,000 people in Ethiopia.  This is something that is going to hopefully help the huge lack of clean water in this country.

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Five local nonprofit leaders were recognized by the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation for their determination to survive during a down economy.

Lindsey Buss, president of Martha’s Table; Kelly Sweeney McShane, executive director of Community of Hope; David Andrew Snider, CEO and artistic director of Young Playwrights’ Theater; Ana Lopez, executive director of Community Bridges; and Jonathan Smith, executive director of the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia were this year’s recipients.

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The federal Department of Education sketched out a new nationwide competition on Tuesday under which some 2,700 school districts and nonprofit groups are expected to compete for pieces of a $650 million innovation fund.

The department already has the 50 states vying for chunks of a $5.4 billion education improvement fund that it calls Race to the Top; the innovation fund is a separate competition.

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While almost everyone was in a huge economic downturn during 2008, it seems a few Non Profit CEO’s were not.  This was all despite charitable giving being down for the firs time on over 20 years.  Of these CEO’s, their median salary climbed 7% to  whopping total of $361,538.  Now although many of these CEO’s experienced a salary increase, they say their pay is still considerably low compared to people on the for profit sector and that their current rates are at a good place.  To read this full article, please follow the hyper link to the CNN Money page.