New Report: "From Nice to Necessary: Unleashing the Impact of Volunteering Through Transformative Investment"
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Ayesha Khanna, who created the Points of Light Civic Accelerator to support startups with social missions and citizen action, was recently named to Foreign Policy magazine’s Leading Global Thinkers of 2015, which includes …
The Points of Light Civic Accelerator, the first national accelerator program and investment fund in the country focused on “civic ventures,” has launched an application to call for innovative, early-stage …
Points of Light, with support from GE Volunteers and the Corporation for National and Community Service; and in partnership with nonprofits and hundreds of local volunteer action centers, will mark the Martin Luther King, …
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