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Connecting with Black History Through Community and Nature

Saleforce Nonprofit

In 2009, Rue Mapp started a blog to share her experience participating in outdoor recreation activities as a Black woman in America. The first post I wrote in 2009 was about a perspective-shifting trip I had taken with a local bike group of people who mostly looked like me. There is just no singular Black experience in America.

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VisionLink’s Strategic Advantage Department Produces Complete College America’s National STEM Careers Academy

VisionLink

"Between 1970 and 2009, undergraduate enrollment in the United States more than doubled, while the completion rate has been virtually unchanged. Practitioners, national experts, and facilitators were trained, coordinated and supported during the Academy by VisionLink’s Lois Ann Porter.

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Why Can’t the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector Scale Generosity? #givedaylessons

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What Happened on Give Local America Day? For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook.

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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

percent in 2009. percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009. To help facilitate this discussion, have your CFO run budgets from 2006-2012 and see how your revenue fluctuated. And, despite slight upticks in 2010 and 2011 in giving, they were still well below pre-GFC levels. and México.

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Record-breaking donations on Give to the Max Day in Minnesota

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have been tracking this giving day since its first Giving Day back in 2009 and every year do a debrief post or interview. This year, we asked school principals to don super hero costumes and ride the new indoor zip line at the Mall of America. PadillaCRT has led our earned media strategies since we launched GiveMN in 2009.

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Social Innovation: Harnessing What Works to Address Critical National Challenges

Have Fun - Do Good

I've been hearing a lot about the Social Innovation Fund lately, an element of the Serve America Act. To learn more about the Fund, I attended a panel called Social Innovation: Harnessing What Works to Address Critical National Challenges at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service.

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Cause Camp 2017 Speaker Lineup Announcement

NonProfit Hub

Beth has over 35 years working in the nonprofit sector in capacity building and has facilitated trainings for nonprofits on every continent in the world (except Antarctica). She is an in-demand keynote speaker and workshop facilitator. Beth Kanter is an internationally recognized thought leader in networks, social media and data.

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