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We recently caught up with grant-writing expert Jane Hexter, founder of GrantsChampion, who shared a few tips with the Pepsi Refresh community.
When researching grants, it’s easy to spend countless hours plowing through a foundation database, with little to show for it. While the information available might seem overwhelming, there are 3 simple questions you can ask to assess a foundation’s giving pattern.
By: Refresh Team of GOOD | July 30th, 2010 
By: Angela Hu, GOOD Projects Intern
For all of us who’ve moved- from a new house or from dorms and apartments- we’ve experienced the hassles that come with owning too much unnecessary furniture and clothes. It’s nice to find this stuff a new home before turning to the dumpster. Jeremy Adam Smith over at Shareable, who is packing up and moving to a new house with his family, shares some tips on how we all can make moving easier and share the bounty. Read & Discuss
By: Refresh Team of GOOD | July 29th, 2010 
By: Angela Hu, GOOD Projects Intern
So you’ve got things to say and you’re pretty crafty? Sure there’s lots of creative publishing happening online, but good old paper is still a hit with the DIY crowd. Take zines for instance. Yumi Sakugawa, our friend over at Intent, explains that a zine is, “a completely self-created, self-published and self-distributed ‘magazine’ that can contain your own original writings, artwork, photographs, essays and more.” Read & Discuss
By: Refresh Team of GOOD | July 28th, 2010 
Summer in Ohio can be unbearably hot and muggy, but for some young musicians, it’s the best time of year to spend time in the Buckeye state. Since 2002, Oberlin College & Conservatory of Music has hosted one of the most intensive pre-professional music programs in the country- the Credo Chamber Music Summer Program. Read & Discuss
By: Rebecca McQuigg Rigal of GOOD | July 28th, 2010 
Have an old phone booth in your neighborhood sitting empty? Fill it with books! Book booths are an easy way to acquire new books (for free), bring your community together and transform a neighborhood eyesore into a neighborhood gem. We talked to Amy Inouye of the Future Studio about how she started one in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Read & Discuss
By: Kyla Fullenwider of GOOD | July 27th, 2010 
When Cynthia Delgadillo came home exhausted and sick one evening in May she slid into her most comfortable pajamas. Delgadillo had been exhaustively campaigning for a Pepsi Refresh Grant and, running on fumes after a recent bout with illness, wondered if she could continue her effort. But as she relaxed into her pajamas, she had a small but important epiphany: the kids she works with don’t have this comfort, she thought. Read & Discuss
By: Kyla Fullenwider of GOOD | July 27th, 2010 
One in three black boys born in 2001 are at risk of imprisonment during their lifetime, according to the Children’s Defense Fund. A Latino boy has a 1 in 6 chance of ending up behind bars. The so-called ‘cradle to prison pipeline‘ is a euphemism to describe the troubling fact that we can make accurate predictions about how many prison cells we will need in the next decade based on census data. Read & Discuss
By: Kyla Fullenwider of GOOD | July 27th, 2010 
By: Angela Hu, GOOD Projects Intern
Do you love fresh herbs as much as I do? Sure, you could pick up your herbs at the grocery store, but growing fresh herbs at home is a great alternative. While growing fresh herbs is easy, drying them efficiently can become a hassle. But Colleen Vanderlinden over at Planet Green has an easy way to dry your herbs and keep your car fresh. Read & Discuss
By: Refresh Team of GOOD | July 26th, 2010 A group living facility for boys in Manchester New Hampshire offers an opportunity for young lives to get back on track. A $5,000 Pepsi Refresh grant gave Easter Seals the final push to transform the house into a home.
By: Refresh Team of GOOD | July 26th, 2010 
Pepsi Refresh grant recipient Atlas Corps‘ CEO, Scott Beale, has a plan to refresh the long-running MTV reality show, The Real World. “Let’s film six international Atlas Fellows living together in a house,” he suggests. With fellows from culturally and ethnically diverse nations such as Zimbabwe, Armenia, Ecuador and Pakistan living together under one roof and working at some of Washington D.C.’s most influential non-profits like the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children and Ashoka’s Youth Venture, MTV’s cameras would certainly catch a slice of the “real world” that’s a complete 180 from their standard fare. Read & Discuss
By: Liz Dwyer of GOOD | July 26th, 2010
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