Starting and Building a Career in the Nonprofit World
College students preparing to graduate this spring are facing extraordinary uncertainty about their career prospects. |
Council accepts bid for fire department software
In addition to discussing annexation, the Jacksonville City Council heard other business Thursday evening. |
Other counties around the state are seeking revenue
Eleven N.C. counties will ask voters in November to let them impose a new, quarter-cent sales tax. The N.C. legislature in 2007 gave counties blanket permission to add the tax if county voters OK'd it. In a 12th county, Watauga voters [this week] rejected the idea, apparently with some help from the John Locke Foundation. |
Mac Frampton concert-dinner to benefit local library
Pianist Mac Frampton will perform Oct. 2 at a dinner and show to benefit the Tifton-Tift County Public Library Foundation. Contributed photo |
New day center for homeless in the works; city wants loiterers off downtown streets
Despite tight budgets for nonprofit agencies, plans are inching forward to help clear out the homeless from downtown streets during the day. Mayor John Peyton said the concept of a daytime center, designed to entice drifters from the streets and give them access to basic job-hunting tools like telephones and Internet, is a crucial component to revitalize the city’s urban core. The idea is to try ... |
What's News for Sept. 2, 2010
Get your non-profit organization’s fundraisers and other events in the Daily Progress’s What’s News calendar free of charge by e-mailing event information to living@jacksonvilleprogress.com. The newspaper reserves the right to edit any submission for space and content. |
Jacksonville mayor cuts library’s travel and training budgets
After drawing scrutiny for employee trips to far-away places , the Jacksonville Public Library’s entire travel and training budgets have been eliminated by Mayor John Peyton for the upcoming fiscal year. After his budget proposal was presented to the City Council, the Finance Committee asked the mayor’s office to look for cuts in travel and training. Peyton asked the roughly dozen city ... |
UPDATED: Area closings and delays
The following closings have been announced for the area: For Friday, Camp Lejeune, Marine Corps Air Station New River and all tenant commands are operating on a delayed reporting schedule due to possible inclement weather. Military and civilian... |
Former first lady Laura Bush to speak in Jacksonville tonight at school benefit
Former first lady Laura Bush is expected to give a 30-minute speech and take questions and answers before a crowd of about 400 people tonight during a benefit for the capital campaign of Mandarin Christian School. Bush will appear for a private reception, 6:30 p..m. dinner and then serve as keynote speaker at the University of North Florida's University Center, said Dawn Lemasters, director of ... |
JISD bond elections: A history
Jacksonville Independent School District board members voted to call a bond election this month and now face relaying the importance of a $49.865 million bond program to taxpayers faced with the possibility of a 19 cent per $100 valuation tax increase. |
