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Help Your Helpers! Top Tips for Managing Volunteers

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Engaging volunteers helps get the word out about your mission, since most volunteers share their passion with their personal and professional networks. Volunteers can certainly be a huge help for any nonprofit staffer, especially since cloning yourself isn’t an option… yet. Recruit Like Your Mission Depends on It.

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This landmark federal law, known as the “Emancipation Proclamation for people with disabilities,” has been remarkably successful in protecting the rights of people with disabilities. The ADA and the special education laws have produced the best-educated population of people with disabilities in U.S. million to 6 million by 2015.

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Hindsight is 20/20 - Lessons Learned about Participant Fundraising in 2009

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In memory of my brother-in-law, Bill Drew, I joined Team in Training in 2002 and committed to raise $2,500 and run a marathon. From these, I pulled together this set of lessons learned. Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Participant Fundraising. What worked for your organization in 2009? The 5/50 rule.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live on September 14: Accessible and Assistive Technologies

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However, if we are truly intent on using technology to serve and help others we cannot forget to make sure tools we use, whether they are websites or apps, are accessible to all. He is a learning disability consultant, technology trainer, nation's foremost expert on WordQ and SpeakQ. Pacific time.

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Overcoming the Government-Nonprofit Dependency

ASU Lodestar Center

Federal, state and local governments increasingly depend on Social Service nonprofit organizations and, because of that dependency, have been willing to help fund them. Organizations can share the fundraising costs, as well as leveraging each organization’s strengths to help make a larger impact in the communities for which they operate.

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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 set aside $7.2 The plan will help determine the future of Internet access across the country. I learned about the public comment period in an email from Free Press. Without effective deterrents, Internet providers will continue to discriminate against lawful content.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

In order to make change that is sustainable and scalable, additional funding sources need to be considered to help nonprofits achieve their core missions. Historically, federal and state laws have viewed nonprofit and for-profit entities as mutually exclusive organizations whose work rarely, if ever, overlapped. Banks were not lending.

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