ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Defenders of Children. The year is 2008. Nonprofits, the fifth largest industry in Arizona, historically the recipient of a most generous donor base, now wear the burden of the downturn in the national economy. Our nonprofit 50l(c)(3) child advocacy agency survived the Great Recession of 2008-2013. Like this article?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2012

As a nation, we have seen mass shootings many times over the years. On a personal note, I come from a small town in Western Pennsylvania, where “people cling to their guns” as President Obama clumsily stated in the 2008 campaign. Thomas Stehle. Why Haven’t Foundations Responded to the Newtown Shootings? Guest Post by Vince Stehle.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 16, 2009

It's been my good fortune to work with Children's Defense Fund for the last year and a half here at Convio. CDF is the foremost national proponent of policies and programs that provide children with the resources they need to succeed. Google organic search visits increased by 23%. average time on the site is up 15%.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. The National Center for Charitable Statistics notes that 90 percent of these organizations have never filed any kind of return. This is great news. They reported $1.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

Children???s s National Day at Nationals Park. This a special day will highlight and support the partnership between the Washington Nationals and Children???s s National Medical Center to fight pediatric diabetes. During the game, the Nationals and Major League Baseball will launch a mobile giving campaign.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 31, 2008

El Espectador, one of the two most important national daily newspapers, screams out in today's editorial: "Shame!" The civilian deaths of these children and young men presented as combat deaths highlight the kind of deaths that may have been missing from the counts of the government during the past 6 years.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 3, 2007

News Channel 7, Upstate South Carolina - National: "MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Billionaire Carlos Slim said he doesn't care if he is the world's richest man and promised to donate hundreds of thousands of laptop computers to Mexican children.The Mexican telecom mogul pledged Thursday to donate 250,000 low-cost laptops to children by the end of the year and (..)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

It is part of an ongoing national effort to bridge the digital divide in the United States. Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground. The project just had it's national launch fairly recently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Efforts to appropriate money in state and national legislatures were defeated. In only six months, more than 120,000 donors – from children to recovering alcoholics – sent in donations of typically less than a $1. The committee in charge of fundraising was short on cash. And the press scorned the fundraising effort.

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Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2012

in Oklahoma is one of the frontline organizations that addresses these and other issues in a very interesting way – starting with the children. is located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, which is the capitol of the Cherokee Nation. Heather is pretty proud of the work they’re doing on behalf of Native American children.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2014

He is a big fan of the platform, having written FileMaker databases for other clients including the Helen Keller Foundation , the National Guard , the University of Alabama at Birmingham , and Infinity Insurance. He has kept his skills current by attending FileMaker developer conferences from time to time. The Global Sight Network.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. Children love it. The intruder was able to get names, addresses, genders, birth dates, and even photos of children — more than six million children.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008. On one of the pages, amid all the charts on who volunteers and what they do, is a big banner depicting the following result: "33 percent of Arizona adults volunteered in 2008." One in three. But is it right? One in four.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Million For 20,000 Charities And NonProfits by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.Com, Washington Post, May 29, 2008. Million and Counting , The Agitator, May 29, 2008. Social Networks: It’s About the Relationship by Stephen MacLaughlin, BlackBaud Blog, May 29, 2008. Causes Reports On Its First Year - $2.5 Frogloop Blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 6, 2009

A March 2008 report in Science magazine, Spending Money on Others Promotes Happiness , found that, "spending more of one's income on others predicted greater happiness both cross-sectionally (in a nationally representative survey study) and longitudinally (in a field study of windfall spending)." For example, according to the U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

2013 was a strong year for fundraising, with charities posting their best increase since before the economy plunged in 2008, according to the 2013 Charitable Giving Report. ” Those outings can include activities for families and children, and can pave the way for additional gifts. Human services – Communication and planning.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2007

December 10, 2008 will mark the 60th anniversary of the General Assembly of the United Nations' adoption of the Declaration. . • The law is the same for everyone; it should be applied in the same way to all. These are 5 of the 30 points listed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

According to the National Retail Federation U.S. percent drop from 2008. Nearly 21% have not yet decided how much to give and to what charity. consumers plan to spend an average of $682.74 on holiday-related shopping, a 3.2

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2015

While the financial markets gradually have recovered since they crashed in 2008, a focus on providing good customer services to donors has helped generate annual giving of roughly $300 million a year over the past five years to the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. Blackbaud also publishes a giving index for Canada. With nearly $7.9

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

I am acutely aware, however, that most museum staff don’t have time to go looking in other sectors for good ideas that might shake up their thinking, especially stretched as thin as they are by the national financial crisis. 2, 2008) will be offered as a free webcast on Jan.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The new building of Naturalis, the Dutch National Natural History Museum, opened in 1998. The minutes of meetings held in 2006, 2007, and early 2008 reflect a hurried and rather superficial process. In this situation I was hired during the last quarter of 2008 to get the process moving. Museums for groups of 60 persons only.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This initiative has been made possible through collaboration with Tsofen, a local nonprofit organization launched in 2008 by Arab and Jewish founders to promote high-tech careers in Arab society as a lever for economic development and the creation of a shared society for Arabs and Jews in Israel. Connect with her on Linkedin.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

He is currently a Fellow in the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program, which is a national project of the W.K. At the end of 2008, I initiated a new project called the Grow. We already spend fewer dollars on our food than -- I don't know about most -- but many industrial nations. Kellogg Foundation. Grub Project.

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MAY 3, 2011

In "The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty" , Princeton University professor Peter Singer famously highlights one study in which individuals who were shown a picture of a girl named Rokia and told her story were willing to give far more than when asked to help three million hungry children in Malawi.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

In DC, I worked half-time for NASA as an electrical engineer and half-time for the Capital Children's Museum (now defunct) as a science educator. I expected the museum blogosphere to explode in 2007 or 2008. I applied to work for This American Life (rejected) and in the meantime fell in love with someone who lived in Washington D.C.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Three things stand out in this interview: Like the Brooklyn Museum , COSI’s social media strategy is focused on local community connections, not national outreach. Here I am sitting with this person who is a young professional without children, someone who would never have engaged with COSI before we got involved in social media.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 12, 2011

To summarize: Strategy 1: Infuse in the infrastructure of national and community service programs the requirement that participants learn civic communication skills. That traditional civil society is in deep decline. " [2] [emphasis mine]. Five recommendations for reviving civic communication are proposed in the report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Shaving your head to supercharge a fundraising campaign has continued to be popular into 2008. Ed Schipul grew a mustache for charity to raise money for a children's hospital. People who donated enjoyed the opportunity for innuendo in the comments. While a modest amount raised, Erin surpassed his fundraising goal by 50%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Note from Beth: As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor of designing and facilitating a “networked capacity building project” for a cluster of grantees, state-based groups, to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. Life Elevated.” It turns out there is a.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

2006 study by Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health : After MRI brain scanning of volunteers as they were asked to think about a scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity or keeping it for themselves, researchers found giving won out. ” — Winston Churchill.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Women hold these toxins in their body, and this is what they have to pass on to their children. It is about a future that is possible for their children, and for future generations. One of the women that stands out is actually someone who participated in our 2008 training, which took place in Kenya. Over 90 percent of U.S.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In April, President Biden shared his American Families Plan , which aims to support low and middle-income families and children. Since 2008, private philanthropy in the U.S. Grants to support community college education grew from $181 million in 2008 to $336 million in 2018—an 85 percent increase. has awarded over $3.5

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

nonprofits in 2008. First, any demographic study of the nation’s donors makes clear that the overwhelming proportion of philanthropic giving comes from people who are middle-aged or older. Our children likewise will have a story to tell their grandchildren. April 28, 2010 | Shane Andrews Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

She utilizes her national platform to bring awareness to the HIV/AIDS crisis. SC: I'd started working with an organization called YouthAIDS which provides services and products to children worldwide who are affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis. For example, we put together the 2008 Seva Challenge. I raised a lot of money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Take for example, The Free Rice Game , an interactive online game that donated rice to the United Nations World Food Program based on clicking. The game was very engaging for adults and children alike. . All you had to do was click and play a word game, and that leveraged a food donation to fight hunger.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 14, 2018

Trump and three of his children: Donald J. A 2016 report by CNN revealed that, per tax records, then-candidate Trump had not made a personal donation to the foundation since 2008. These include a $158,000 payment to settle claims against Trump National Golf Club and $100,000 to settle legal claims against his Mar-A-Lago resort.

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