Policy Guidance Network

Here is a pretty cool NPO to get connected with if you are looking for opportunities to serve. They match up your professional expertise in order to provide skilled volunteers to organizations in need. Check 'em out!

http://jerichoroadproject.org/

Let’s make a greater difference. | The Jericho Road Project Our successful board training and placement program debuts in Worcester this January! Learn about it, and sign up here . . .

For those is the Dallas area that have some free time during the day:

Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance is in need of volunteers to assist with the data entry of the "Point in Time Count" surveys.

Below are the dates available for volunteering. Persons with PC and Windows experience plus the ability to enter data accurately are needed. Also, it is important that you are available for the entire three-hour session for which you register.

This year, data entry will be completed at the MDHA office located at 2816 Swiss Ave., Dallas, TX 75204. Parking is located in the Auxiliary Parking lot located at the corner of Texas & Floyd Streets.

Contact [email protected] for available dates/times.

PGN is currently accepting new projects - if you are a nonprofit organization in need of policy research, contact us today.

http://policyguidance.com/

PGN Home In today's economic climate, financial resources are limited more than ever for non-profit organizations, private foundations, government agencies, and even private citizens. These groups each have...

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Petition to Opt Texas IN to Medicaid Expansion Provisions of ACA Dallas Area Interfaith - A practicum for citizenship where diverse civic institutions find ways for their members to work together for the common good.

I recommend bookmarking this page if you are interested in local data!

Research & Data - Dallas Fed

Pretty neat organization I recently learned about! Works to deliver essential items to homeless children in our area. Consider a gift or donation!

Homepage | Captain Hope's Kids Captain Hope’s Kids has one goal in mind, to help those who cannot help themselves, children. Through the collection of donations, supplies and fundraisers, we intend to give homeless children their best chance at living a normal life.

Nearly 7,300 homeless students in Dallas and Colin County school districts...

http://www.mdhadallas.org/downloads/SummerIssue2012.pdf

Consider taking this quick survey to provide input for a local nonprofit

We want your opinion on The Memnosyne Foundation logo! Survey

It is very alarming to read that 18% of Americans didn't have the money needed to buy the food they need at one point in time during the last 12 months. This is NOT the time for Congress to make fiscal cuts to the Farm Bill.

“These cuts to SNAP will particularly harm seniors, children and working families, taking food away from the poorest and most vulnerable among us. Congress must reject these attempts to make false economies by taking from those who have the least.” - FRAC President, Jim Weill

About FRAC « Food Research & Action Center Food Hardship Rate Continues to Hold Steady, Underscoring Need to Protect SNAP Washington, D.C. – August 22, 2012 – New data released yesterday by the Gallup organization show the food hardship rate for the nation was 18.2 percent during the first six months of 2012. While a slight dip from the 2...

Treasury May Scrap "Use It or Lose It" Rule on Flexible Spending Accounts

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=22255

The time has finally come! As many of you know, I've been working on developing a non-profit that provides research and public policy assistance to other non-profits in our local DFW community.

I'm please to announce that the Policy Guidance Network is now a registered non-profit corporation with the State of Texas.

I'm looking forward to continuing to work with our local and vibrant non-profit sector.

Feel free to follow along and forward this page to an non-profits that could use PGN's services!

Guiding Light Policy Solutions has some exciting news! We are looking at becoming a nonprofit agency this year to begin filling the public policy and research void in the DFW-area nonprofit circles.

More info to come!