Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This is definitely what happened for our story: we started with a simple idea and then were incredibly surprised at how helpful an extra bag of groceries could be to a lot of households. It doesn’t take a ton of education or even a degree to help people. I hope these will inspire you on your own journey of helping others!

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Who remembers the days of charities arguing with local United Ways over the donor data? Our friends at AmeriGives help explain what is going on in two important blog posts. Step 1: To be beneficiary of the generosity of corporate America, we have got to recognize the new landscape. This has been a problem for a long time.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

In her book, Tulshyan includes an entire chapter on the topic of how to develop empathy as an inclusive leader – including definitions and explanations of: Affective empathy (how easily can you feel another person’s emotions). This chapter includes helpful guidelines for interviewing and how to reduce bias while interviewing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

What is the definition of success? Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised $2 million in 24 hours using the Razoo platform. More difficult to measure is the transformation of how people think about, talk about and participate in the giving season.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In the Broadway musical “Hamilton,” the lead character of Alexander sings about who he and America are meant to be. You can sponsor and share research that may help with many of the world’s problems. And when making promises to a group where trust matters, the second rule definitely applies. Who Are You Meant to Be?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 16, 2014

posted by Chrisal Valencia Member Events & Volunteer Coordinator Local First Arizona Public Allies has played a very definitive role in my life. I remembered that it was becoming a mom that inspired me to pursue a life and career that aimed to help better my community, and help shape an even better one for my daughter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Those are definitely not the qualities of a good social media manager. However, while in Asia I got to watch CNN Asia and the BBC and read the local press. America didn’t seem like such a mess in the foreign media. By early December I was anxious, angry, and hopeless. In fact, quite the opposite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

You get a vocabulary word and you must choose the correct definition to make the donation. The Hunger Site promotes ways to help prevent hunger deaths every day and to help promote awareness through easy and quick online activities. If you are correct, they give you a more difficult word. Miss it and they???ll

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

It’s definitely not the powerhouse it was 2 years ago, but it’s far from dead. You don’t hear about it much anymore, but in 2007 there were many stories of how MySpace was helping bridge the digital divide because low-income youth were logging in and teaching themselves HTML code. MySpace is not dangerous.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Atlasien of Upside-Down Adoption said she was going to become involved in a local organization for immigrant rights. Elizabeth said she would like to write her representatives and local newspaper more, like Vegankid does. I recently finished reading A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This project has identified the following definitions of success: A Peer-to-Peer Learning Exchange. Even more importantly, the practice of connecting measurement and decision-making will help organizations improve practice and results, and document value. We even localized and mixed up our energizers and icebreakers.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

That alone, I don’t know how you do that and then all your other awesome, you know, fundraising and client work, but it definitely has helped out a lot of organizations raise over $1 billion, and is just a delight to listen to. Hobbies or groups, charitable organizations, so that’s what the rest of America is saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

A local radio announcer in Vancouver (Buzz Bishop of 95Crave) approached me to join his 95CRAVE Team Diabetes crew, a group of passionate runners raising money to support the Canadian Diabetes Association. What have you learned about personal fundraising that might be helpful to other bloghers?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

I’ve tried to pull out some of the relevant tweets from the Twitter stream to help follow the flow of the conversation in case you missed it. A campaign (in my definition) is anything that mobilizes action. annanten : social media is here to help you empower your followers with a story to create powerful activists for your cause.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2006

This one definitely tops my list, and I don't even knit. I was so inspired by how you can warm up someone's life with knitting, in more way than one, that I've signed up to be notified the next time my local knitting store offers a beginner's knitting workshop. Last week I wrote about my Favorite Do-Good Books of 2006.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

These lessons helped me as I took to the field, the only girl on boys’ soccer teams, first local and then in a club travel league. Egos were definitely bruised, but I loved the sport and still do, as a former player, coach, referee and now spectator at my sons’ matches. I learned to go much further than winning.”

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

By definition, your to-do list includes a lot of important things you need to get done, right now. If you live in a small town or in rural America, your choices are probably limited to slow and expensive satellite Internet service or even slower dial-up service. Below are some resources that can help you get started.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

Nonprofit Finance Fund recently completed its third annual "State of the Nonprofit Sector" survey with the help of nearly 2,000 nonprofit leaders nationwide. Its very reflective of America's wallets. " Such a scary statistic, but definitely very eye-opening information to have. March 29, 2011 10:54 AM Kayla said.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And this is one where these guys definitely have a lot of knowledge. The ones that we see that are struggling, that we’re helping a lot are the ones that, you know, if they don’t have the process, it presents immense amount of risk. Steven: Yeah, this is awesome to have you both here. Check them out.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I wanted to be a part of that effort to connect with people, and to help people not feel alone, because loneliness is a horrible feeling, a horrible feeling. " -- Secret Agent L Laura Miller, aka Secret Agent L, and her affiliated agents perform anonymous acts of kindness missions across the globe and share them on Laura's blog, secretagentl.com.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

By expanding out from the homogeneous group we also demonstrate acts of leadership within that more numerous portion of the local and national population. Understanding the broadest possible definition of the giving season is a great way to grow as a nonprofit leader. In parts of Europe Christmas falls on different days. There are 7.5

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

So I hope that you can kind of take some nuggets of information to kind of help you think through ways that you could be more responsive, build a better process related to grants. So definitely, that’s been top of mind and something that I’ve seen quite frequently. . So I hope you are as well. trillion package.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

He’s a coach, big time strategist, and has helped a lot of organizations over his career. So you’re definitely going to want to follow him online. It’ll help you, trust me. But definitely screen your database, I like to say at least every three years, if not on an ongoing basis. And what can I say?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing. We also take part in trainings that are relevant to most of their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2018

This blog post references rape, sexual assault and harassment, but also offers suggestions on how to reach out for help, resources for talking with children and self-care tips. The latest headlines have focused on the political calculus, and I, like much of America, followed much of the news coverage closely. TRIGGER WARNING.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

She’s over at Blue Sky Philanthropy, helps a lot of organizations raise money. But we can definitely move forward and be more effective in our work once we start recognizing the importance of mindset. . But here’s a hint I always find really helpful. Definitely, the introvert thing. Check her out. perfection.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

She has been the founder since 1994 helping nonprofits with branding, websites. There really isn’t a clear definition that is universally accepted in the sector. But I want to emphasize, in this definition, that the whole thing hinges on advancing the mission. We love Sarah. We love Big Duck. It’s a great agency.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

First up was Joseph Tanigawa from Code for San Francisco (our local chapter of Code for America), who presented a nifty tool for bridging the digital divide. LocalFreeWeb is an SMS service that helps people find free Internet access in San Francisco. Now that's something I can definitely get behind! Bond & Me.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

Definitely, something that I’ve heard from some nonprofit leaders. I’m going to do a quick, sort of quick definition. I created this table to help you figure this out. Definitely, yes. And that’s going to help with all of those benefits that I mentioned before. Last one wasn’t good.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

She spends a lot of time doing workshops, helping orgs with communications. And these are all very complicated topics sometimes, and so I started researching ways in which communication can help us explain very complex topics in very simple ways. We have all of Latin America. I’ve gotten to know Naira over the last.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

It’s not very often that we take a very scientific view of the philanthropy world, but Jen is definitely leading the charge on that. Now, in the charity context, the most straightforward way to think about this is how can we love the people who need our help? It could be people who needed help today to help themselves.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rachel Sacks, MPH will help demystify all five phases of the grants lifecycle: identifying well-aligned prospects, cultivating funder relationships, preparing compelling submissions, maintaining grants through stewarding and reporting, and submitting renewals. So definitely knows what she’s talking about. It sounds cooler anyway.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

So it really helps connect you, as the person purchasing this product, to the sense of impact that you are making not only through your purchase but also on that community through its sustained work. We entered into this thinking about, "How do we really help create stronger wage standards in informal markets?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Nonprofit-Share is making it easy for social sector professionals to find each other, learn from one another, form mutually beneficial relationships and come together to better serve local communities and build a more effective nonprofit sector. SamaUSA helps low-income learn the skills necessary to gain access to online jobs.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So, Kevin, we appreciate your help. . Jimmie Alford, one of the great fundraisers in America, told me a story a few years ago, which was about this volunteer who had to raise money for mental health in a community. But if they feel like their peers are giving, it really helps tremendously. . Andy: Then we’re going to.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2015

Eli is definitely one of our best and brightest, and is something of a force of nature. He helps groups of tech-for-good people get together anywhere in the world get together to talk shop. What I enjoy is helping people create something together that's bigger than what they could do as individuals. I'm no maker.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My house that I loved so much that I’m sure that I overpaid and was a fundraiser at Big Brothers Big Sisters at that time and really had to learn to navigate some really choppy waters around what it meant to help folks understand investing in their community in trying times, investing in young people, investing in our staff.

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