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Building evidence and innovating programs to reduce disparities in children’s well-being 

Candid

The Race for Results report series tracks how children across racial and ethnic groups are faring at the state and national levels on key education, health, and economic milestones. Six indicators have improved for every racial and ethnic group during the past decade—but unevenly. The national child poverty rate fell from 9.7%

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Peer-to-Peer Crowdfunding Myths & How To Ensure Success

The Modern Nonprofit

The average nonprofit email campaign has less than 25% open rates and less than 3% click-through rates. We’re talking about putting together a core group of people that you can have reach out to their friends. Set up face-to-face meetings with a very small group of people that can write relatively large checks.

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Making Stories Work for Your Org: What the Data Says

NTEN

Our shared stories define our social group. We created two random 300K groups and pitted two versions against each other: Version 1 : Written using a more general, institutional approach that outlined the organization's accomplishments and need. Stories shape our identities. The stories we tell about ourselves shape who we are.

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The 2010 NTC by the Numbers

NTEN

Also on Thursday, there were 16 Affinity Group sessions; we like to think they were attended by the remainder of the 70% of conference attendees who checked-in at registration on Thursday. of you who registered at the early bird rate of $359.00 got a great deal on registration! Each session was scheduled for 1.5 As for U.S.

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[VIDEO] Get More Grants with Donor Cultivation

Bloomerang

And I’ve just seen we range from Florida to Alaska, California, Indiana, New York, Canada. There may be networking groups, professional affiliations, recreation, sports, clubs. I work with a nonprofit that helps provide group and individual counseling services for women affected by domestic violence. So social media.

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Research Friday: Strengthening the Economy through Civic Engagement

ASU Lodestar Center

A recent report authored by several partner organizations, including the National Conference on Citizenship , CIRCLE , Civic Enterprises , the Saguaro Seminar , and the National Constitution Center suggests that there may be a correlation between civic engagement and the unemployment rate. A key component of this paper is trust.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

The homicide rate, as people are probably aware of, has just really increased in the last few years in Oakland, where I live. And interestingly, there was a group of women who really had put that on the map as well. We have four initiatives. This is about our community. Interestingly, Doe Run has a sister company down in Latin America.

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