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I’m proud to say the only three abbreviations I have ever used on facebook and AOL instant messenger are TTYL, LOL, and OMG. Being twenty one, you would think I would know more of the text lingo.  I’m glad I’ve never heard of these abbreviations before reading an article from the Wall Street Journal: KUTGW, LMIRL, or IWSN. Did  you know that LMIRL stands for Lets meet in real life? Give me a break, why not just say LM? Lets meet.  Do people really use these abbreviations?

Let us know if you’re on the band wagon or not.

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Teenage problem solving gained by experience.  When left to ones own means of learning the resolution just might be from a more emotional approach.

From the Wall Street Journal:

Teens always get the scraps when it comes to work opportunities. In this recession, those scraps have been far and few between. All over the country Teen jobs have been swallowed up by older and most likely overqualified workers. Of course, teens may not work quite as well as other employees. However, a possible cause for their lack of motivation is because they have never had a job to motivate them to work hard and earn money. This stimulus package can only help in getting America’s teens in the right direction for success.

 From the Wall Street Journal:

Would people feel more secure about the possible health care overhaul if non-profit companies provided the health insurance rather than the government? When this fall comes around there will be a final vote whether or not to pass the health bill proposed by the Obama administration. Personally, I want to see less government interaction as opposed to more government interaction.

 Let us know your opinions on this topic.

From The Wall Street Journal:

The government is not taking our privledge to living a healthy life away because of the health care reform. The whole purpose of Obama’s health care plan is to provide all citizens of the US affordable health care. America was built on the idea of choice. And living a healthy life is the smartest choice we can make for our familys future and our country’s. 

What I’d really like to know is the actual terms and benefits the proposed federal health insurance coverage will provide to citizens. There has been much speculation over how citizens will leave their employer’s health coverage for federal health coverage since it will be so much cheaper. But with a cheaper coverage, are people really getting the same benefits as private insurance companies offer? Before we all decide to go for the cheaper coverage the White House needs to come up with a coverage plan. Maybe by that time people will see that the federal plan isn’t nearly as good as the one they have now.

Let us know your opinion.

From the Wall Street Journal: 

President Obama supports the teamwork environment that doctors of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio work in on a daily basis. Rather than having doctors work independently, thus increasing costs, the Cleveland Clinic has doctors from the same speciality collaborate together to figure out the best treatments for patients.

In a perfect medical world, patients wouldn’t need to pay for second opinions they’d be told them by the group of doctors working to help them get better, no extra fees.

By Chris for Nonprofit Supporter

From Papa;

Why are many child welfare nonprofits afraid of doing adoption and foster care?  The first answer an organization will give you is too much liability.  However, it is not insurance liability, it is being in the news and having a story on a child effect the resources of an organization.   Child welfare needs to really push accomplishing outcomes in time limited measured way.  If the service plan has not been accomplished by a federal standard then decision making should change to another authority.

No child should have to wait a long time.  Aging out of foster care with no accomplished permanency plan should be considered a failure.  How many failures should be allowed in child welfare?  Government mandates that providers of child welfare meet high standards in order to continue to receive referrals.  The same tough standards should be the same for the state agencies as well.

Accomplishing a permanency plan for a child should not be tied to solutions by the same individuals after a period time has past in which said solutions have not occurred.  It’s OK to have to pass the case to another set of individuals to obtain the outcomes which are in the child’s best interests.

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No reason to be worried about drowning in debt.  Take every advantage to throw a life line to those with college debt and matching them to the nonprofit staffing needs.  Some rules just might make the benefit worth a substantial amount of money at no cost to the organization.

An interesting trend is happening in the field of law.  Law firms are recruiting, hiring and then asking the postgraduate student to defer their start date with the firm.  However, they will pay their candidate a stipend and health insurance to work for a nonprofit or government for the year.

For those candidates who plan will try to make sure the nonprofit or government agency is eligible for a loan cancellation option and the gain for everyone will be even better.  Education and Child Welfare are two areas where such partnerships will be successful for everyone.

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I always get told to turn off the light by my dad. So I do what he asks. To save electricity turn off the light when your out or going to bed so we don’t have a blackout. I don’t want to have a war about electricity. So please try to save electricity or YOU may die from the angry mob.