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Raise Your Hand for Girls on October 11, 2012

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…more likely to be literate, healthy and survive into adulthood, as are her children. She is the second college student we are supporting through the Sharing Foundation’s program. (I’m donating the royalties from my new book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , towards her education).

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3rd Annual EveryAction Nonprofit Halloween Costume Parade

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Launched in 2012 by music legend Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, the Born This Way Foundation develops programs that support its mission to connect young people in safe ways and empowering them with the skills and opportunities that will inspire them to create a kinder and braver world. Children's Literacy Initiative.

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How #GivingTuesday Can Help Your Nonprofit Reach PhilanthroKids or Generation Z Donors

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I’ve been a huge fan of GivingTuesday since I first heard about it back in September, 2012 during a conference at Stanford. GivingTuesday is done it again with its K-12 Philanthropy Curriculum , a set of lesson plans that teachers can use to help their students participate in GivingTuesday by raising money for a local nonprofit.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

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In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate.

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September Cause Awareness: National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

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It was updated in 2012, and the Office of the U.S. The foundation’s mission is to help people like Amber through their educational programs for students, parents, teachers, staff, and community members. Donate to support their mission here. They offer outpatient services across multiple centers and have served over 28,000 clients.

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Cambodia: Social Media, NGOs, and Social Change: Part 1

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We promised the monk that we would hold Cambodia in our hearts and travel back with our children to their birth country when they were old enough to appreciate it. This post focuses on the work of several NGOs, most importantly, the Sharing Foundation , that cares for children in Cambodia. Beth Kanter (@kanter) August 4, 2012.

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

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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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