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  • I feel like if organizations won’t pay their employees a competitive salary, then they are obligated to recognize the deficit between the for-profit and non-profit industry salaries as actual in-kind financial donations that employees can then write off their taxes. Click for full article. As nonprofit groups increasingly compete with business and government employers to

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  • Cinderella

    I’m going to have to take a brief powder from blogging for a bit. I’m attending class 9 – 5 all weekend and, in the evenings, finishing off the plans and prep for the 2008 ASU Writers Conference. It starts on Wednesday…and it’s going to be a whirlwind of good times! If I can get

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  • I’m going to Oaxaca in four days to spend some time writing and helping ASU MFA students while they enjoy a writing residency. In the meantime, I am crazy busy: Wrapping up things at the office so I can leave with a clear conscienceWriting and/or studying for final exams in my Human Resources and Financial

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  • The Office

    From: Meghan BSent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 6:17 PM To: Information , Smithsonian Subject: Workplace debate At the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, a question came up that we’ve had a hard time answering. I hope your natural history department might be able to help us or give us the contact information of

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  • That’s the name of the contest I won. Aimee and novelist MacKenzie Bezos (The Testing of Luther Albright) are in residence at the Piper Center for Creative Writing this week, doing workshops, Q&As, readings, and youth outreach. They are both such kind guests! It’s wonderful to have them here. Aimee brought me a bottle of

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  • Gross Neglect.

    I’ve been neglecting this blog lately. A few of you know I have a lot going on in my life right now; by the time I get home from work, I don’t have much energy or much to say about anything. Thanks for continuing to check in, and I hope to be back on a

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