Events
Clays For Cops
Sporting Clay event includes grill lunch, benefits Tucson Police support organizations A “Sporting Clay” Event Open to all Sport Shooters Tucson Trap & Skeet Club, 7800 West Old Ajo Hwy. Saturday, May 4, 2013 Shooting Times: 9:00 am $90 per person/$425 per team of 5 (includes Grill Lunch, Goody Bag with T-Shirt and Shooting) •Help raise more [...]
Bloom Night 2013 – The Watch Begins
Tohono Chul hosts a spectacular annual event when the Queen of the Night makes her appearance. If you are a hiker, you’ve probably seen, and perhaps not recognized, the “Queen of the Night” Peniocereus greggii. For most of the year, in fact all year except for the short period of bloom, the Queen most closely resembles a [...]
Summer Safari Nights
Looking for something the whole family can do on Friday Nights? Enjoy Reid Park Zoo’s – Summer Safari Nights, every Friday May 24th through July 12th. Stroll the Zoo during the cooler evenings and enjoy entertainment, jumping castles, games, & face painting for the kids. Presented by Title Sponsor “Denny’s. America’s Diner is always open,” [...]
News
Lodestar Strategic Planning Boot Camp Enrolling with Reduced Price
Lodestar’s Nonprofit Management Institute is offering a 3 day boot camp June 5-7 in Tucson. The course is being sponsored in part by Tucson Foundations, participants will save $200 off the normal cost of attendance. That makes the course a do-not-miss event; successful nonprofits attribute their progress to effective planning and implementation.
Pimp the Pavement: A Brief History of Seedbombing | Living on GOOD
Pimp the Pavement: A Brief History of Seedbombing Remember “Miss Rumphius,” the Lupine Lady? The children’s fiction book by Barbara Cooney (Puffin 1982) recounts the story of Miss Alice Rumphius, a woman who sought to make the world more beautiful by spreading lupine seeds in the wild. Flash back to New York in the 1970s [...]
Know Where You Stand: Photos Blend the Past and Today
Modern photos with an overlay of history remind us of where we are in space and time Check out these photos from Seth Taras
Technology
Battle of the Sexes in Social Media | Infographic
Good news for organizations wanting to reach women, they’re on social media and spend a lot of time browsing and sharing. Top driver of business referral? Pinterest. Bad news for Google + though. Users of the Big G spend only 3 minutes per month on the site compared to 405 minutes on Facebook. Men spend [...]
Responsive Websites More Important Than Ever for Nonprofits
Shipments of desktop PCs and Macs continue to drop Declines in PC shipments worldwide continue to decline faster than the experts predicted. A recent report by the IDC shows a 13.9% decline in Q1 of 2013. There are just more of us accessing the web using tablets and smart phones. This will continue to put [...]
Facebook Wants You to Post What You Are Doing, And How You Feel About It
New expressions have been in tests since early this year According to Facebook’s Newsroom, a new way of sharing emotions and actions is being rolled out across the country beginning this week. The new feature will appear as part of the familiar status update and will allow you to post specific actions and feelings. According [...]
Health
10 Things Coffee Does to Your Body | Alternet
The good and the bad of the world’s most popular mood-altering drug. Caffeine is the most commonly used mood-altering drug in the world, and coffee is one of the most popular means of ingesting it. Over 50% of Americans drink coffee on a daily basis, and that figure is thought to be increasing every year. [...]
20 Habits That Make You Fat
20 HABITS THAT MAKE YOU FAT Read the rest at Men’s Health 20. #1: Eating “low-fat”: It sounds crazy, but stop buying foods marketed as low-fat or fat-free. Typically, they save you only a few calories and, in doing so, they replace harmless fats with low-performing carbohydrates that digest quickly—causing a sugar rush and, [...]
Volunteerism
Report: Value Of Volunteer Time Up | The NonProfit Times
The estimated average value of a volunteer hour was $22.14 in 2012, an increase of 35 cents, according to a new report from Independent Sector (IS). The Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group releases a dollar estimate of the value of volunteer hours every year as a way to acknowledge the work of volunteers across the country. [...]
NAMIWalks Tucson Needs Volunteers
NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, needs volunteers to support their annual event, NAMI Walks. This important organization supports millions dealing with mental illness and their families. NAMI is also a voice of advocacy and a big source of resources to the community. Please join NAMI and volunteer some time on April 6, at [...]
Tucson’s Young Children Need Reading Tutors: Share Your Love of Reading
Kids who can’t read fail in school and life A child who falls behind in reading in the earliest grades may never catch up. Reading is the foundation for everything else learned in school. Kids who can’t read are often embarrassed, act out, miss school, and eventually drop out. It’s a community problem but you [...]
Environment
Spring Greening Competition Recycles Items Into Functional Art
Check out the finalists in inhabitat’s Spring Greening Design Competition. These are some ingenious uses of old magazines, CD cases, yogurt bottles, even video tape and film rolls. I’m making the one above to bring a little order to my desk (I hope). Read more at finalists « Inhabitat – Spring Greening Competition.
Largest Capture of Glacial Calving Ever Filmed
“Chasing Ice” captures the rapid retreat of earth’s glaciers Chasing Ice is the awe-inspiring video documentary of the earth’s disappearing ice. This clip captures the calving of a glacier the size of lower Manhattan breaking off, the largest recorded event of its kind. Enjoy the clip, then take some time to visit the film website [...]
Keeping Tucson Clean and Beautiful
This month, City of Tucson Environmental Services (ES), in partnership with Tucson Clean & Beautiful, Inc., will kick off the second annual “Know Where to Throw” waste diversion collection event. The goal of “Know Where to Throw” is to increase the community’s’ awareness about recycling and reuse opportunities available in Tucson beyond the blue barrel. [...]
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Clays For Cops
Sporting Clay event includes grill lunch, benefits Tucson Police support organizations A “Sporting Clay” Event Open to all Sport Shooters Tucson Trap & Skeet Club, 7800 West Old Ajo Hwy. Saturday, May 4, 2013 Shooting Times: 9:00 am $90 per person/$425 per team of 5 (includes Grill Lunch, Goody Bag with T-Shirt and Shooting) •Help raise more [...]
Bloom Night 2013 – The Watch Begins
Tohono Chul hosts a spectacular annual event when the Queen of the Night makes her appearance. If you are a hiker, you’ve probably seen, and perhaps not recognized, the “Queen of the Night” Peniocereus greggii. For most of the year, in fact all year except for the short period of bloom, the Queen most closely resembles a [...]
Summer Safari Nights
Looking for something the whole family can do on Friday Nights? Enjoy Reid Park Zoo’s – Summer Safari Nights, every Friday May 24th through July 12th. Stroll the Zoo during the cooler evenings and enjoy entertainment, jumping castles, games, & face painting for the kids. Presented by Title Sponsor “Denny’s. America’s Diner is always open,” [...]
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