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Client Spotlight: National Pediatric Cancer Foundation

Qgiv

In 2012, President Barack Obama named September National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month to raise awareness of pediatric cancer. Pediatric cancer is the leading cause of death by disease for children. Approximately 1 in 285 children in the U.S. To help more children and families, Melissa and Risa teamed up to found NPCF.

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How the Latino Community Foundation Used Learning and Pivoting to Get Better Fundraising Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Why did you decide to do a crowd-funding campaign in 2012? In 2012, President Obama responded to the activism, passion, and residency of the Dreamers, by issuing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to protect them from deportation and provided them with temporary work visas. What were your results? per person.

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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

households experienced food insecurity in 2012, according to the most recent data available from the U.S. households with children under 18 experienced food insecurity that year. households with hungry children. Food Insecurity in a Land of Plenty. The statistics on hunger in America are startling: 14.5% That's 3.9

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Seven Ways to Make Sure Your Blog Gets Noticed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As of April 23, 2012, MomsRising published 35 blog posts as part of the food blog carnival that were initially promoted on our own network and then pushed out, using various community #hashtags on Twitter and by our policy partners and other allies. 1 item of discussion was childhood obesity, which garnered 65 out of more than 400 tweets!

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As CEO Brad Damphousse explained to TechCrunch in 2012, the company’s growth was “due to the maturation of payment processing — allowing individual users to accept credit card payments — as well as social platforms like Facebook, which tie campaigns to identity and link them to people users know.”. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2012.

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#GivingTuesday 2021 Ideas & Best Practices

CauseVox

Since 2012, #GivingTuesday has become a worldwide day of (mostly) online giving. SOS Children’s Villages shared that 75% of their new donors all year came through their year-end peer-to-peer fundraiser. Since 2012, nonprofits have incorporated GivingTuesday into their year-end fundraising and seen amazing results.

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Announcing… 29 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2012!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Prevent children from dying from lack of access to clean water or medical care: @ Water , @ AlexsLemonade. Educate about the reality of rampant childhood sexual abuse in America: @ Darkness2Light. Empower entrepreneurs at the grassroots to start micro-enterprises: @ Kiva , @ DarfurStoves.

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