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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

posted by Seth Cothrun, Class 9, American Express Leadership Academy at the ASU Lodestar Center. Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010? And, despite slight upticks in 2010 and 2011 in giving, they were still well below pre-GFC levels. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. We just saw this.

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The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She again invited me to present at the Nasscom NILF Conference in 2010 and teach workshops. At the Sujaya School, I visited a second grade art class. The teacher introduced me as a visitor from America and asked if there the children wanted to ask me any questions. How many beaches does America have?

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Bookshare in Chennai

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Two years later, Maria who was affected by polio at the age of one and has to use a wheel chair and calipers, is now soon to be married on Jan 18th, 2010. I now feel even I can help people living in America!!” She says, “This job has greatly increased my self-esteem.

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Blogging for Writers at The Writing for Change Conference & The Writing Salon

Have Fun - Do Good

Just wanted to let all of you writers who blog, or who want to start blogging, know that I will be teaching two Blogging for Writers classes this fall. The Writing Salon October 23, 2010 10 AM-4 PM $95 for members/$110 for non-members Strawberry Creek Design Center • 2121 Bonar St., Hope to see you at one of them! 495 at the door.

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Telling your nonprofit's story

ASU Lodestar Center

In fact, a recent Nonprofit Quarterly blog post calls on nonprofits to tell use their storytelling skills on a much broader level; to change the prevailing narrative about being poor in America. Initiating honest dialogue about tough issues like economic class and the disparity between the rich and poor is tough work. Get another!

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Creativity in Education (and Life) Can Change the World

Have Fun - Do Good

Writing and illustrating stories about my gerbils, Floppsey and Moppsey, and reading them to the class. Working on a 50-page handwritten report (with illustrations) at the end of the school year so I could go on a class field trip to Boston, and visit one of my favorite places, the Mapparium.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

America didn’t seem like such a mess in the foreign media. That said, I often joke to friends that when I retire from online activism/communications I am going to open a print book and stationary store that serves martinis, plays Pandora, and offers free handwriting classes. VIDEO: HTML All Writers Need to Know.