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New Frontiers in Fundraising

Top Nonprofits

Wendy is collaborative, inclusive, and positive. Years later, in collaboration with a colleague, she launched her second initiative, an after-school program in New York City to help under-served high school students with career planning and workplace readiness. Wendy started a jellybean business during university.

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Show Your Love on Mother’s Day for Your Mom & Mama Lucy

Amy Sample Ward

Last year, using the theme of gratitude and TweetsGiving, Epic Change catalyzed the global community to help build a school in Tanzania. Towards that end, Epic Change has created an online collaborative art project to honor moms across the globe called To Mama With Love. Just imagine.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

But as we know, getting to Zero Hunger will take collaboration from all regions, with multiple approaches to address the contributing factors. What are ways of translating early warning dashboards captured at the global level into local action? Deputy Director Hub; Program Development and Quality Assurance, Action Against Hunger.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. That doesn’t mean organizations sit back, relinquish all responsibility and control, and wait for the community to take action.

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Guest Post on Tactical Philanthropy: Causes, MySpace and ideablob

Amy Sample Ward

But to many people active in online social action communities, these events had deeper meaning. We are able to work as a small team on the organization side because of the passionate, collaborative, dedicated Community. In reaction to the Causes announcement, Economist bureau chief Matthew Bishop tweeted “Who knew it was on MySpace?”

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Why investing in leadership development is a wise strategy

ASU Lodestar Center

On a macro level, leadership development strengthens the nonprofit sector as a whole; it often leads to collaboration and innovation amongst creative leaders. Adam Rubin is the Co-founder and CEO of RENEW , a nonprofit organization focusing on helping young people in Tanzania. The Business Case for Investing in Talent (SSIR).

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Guest Post by Stacey Monk: Dogooders Won’t Change the World (Alone)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I want you, whether you’re in the Congo or Darfur or if you’re in Iran or if you’re in Tanzania, Kosovo…you shoot that story like it’s your mother, your brother, your sister, your father and your cousin and you tell that in that way because that’s actually the road, I think, to not only clarity and truth and understanding. And it helps.

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