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Spotlighting Mental Health in the Nonprofit Sector

Saleforce Nonprofit

We saw hunger, homelessness, broken healthcare systems, exhausted teachers, and mental health issues explode in front of our eyes — and we felt it all. In addition, she founded her own consulting practice in 2010. . We binged on Netflix and suddenly had time to learn to bake bread or play guitar. It still isn’t true. billion.

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Are Mobile Apps Serving the Underserved?

Tech Soup

Apps created specifically to address the needs of low-income and underserved communities in the United States are few and far between – despite the fact that smartphone adoption rates are higher within minority communities where social services are in greater demand and poverty tends to be more concentrated.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

More than a million tax-exempt organizations exist in the United States, including public charities, private foundations, and civic organizations—not counting the 220,000 religious congregations that are also registered. Interest in exploring these models has been rising in the United States, but they are much more common in Europe.

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Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

Care2

telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. Put Solar on It - Put Solar on It is a campaign to encourage world leaders to put solar paneling on their homes, in the case of the United States, on the White House. In September 2010 Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org,

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Creating a Movement, Addressing Inequality

Achieve

She realized that the life she had was much more privileged than most, even though she would be considered by many in the United States as a broke student just getting started in her career. One of Mallory’s first campaigns was for a family in Haiti that suffered greatly during the devastating earthquake of 2010.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

She took it a step further in 2016 by becoming only the second woman of color elected to serve in the United States Senate. In a harrowing act of bravery and independence, Dutch sailor Laura Dekker set sail to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the world in 2010 at just 17 years old. Sylvia Rivera. Charlotte Cooper.

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A Step-By-Step Guide To Getting Started With Fundraising

Bloomerang

dollars in revenue, approximately 70 percent of all nonprofits registered in the United States. When I served in my first executive director position for a small community-based healthcare nonprofit that served the homeless, I still remember the first fundraising conference that I attended. reported receiving under $50,000 U.S.

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