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Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

UNICEF’s #OnMyMind Campaign Encourages Shame-Free Mental Health Discussions With Kids. Founded in 1946 in the aftermath of World War II, UNICEF has consistently worked to protect the rights and wellbeing of all children. UNICEF offers resources and guides for how to talk to infants and children of all ages about mental health.

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Preparing Your Nonprofit to Move Beyond the Founder

Blue Avocado

One that, like actual childhood and early adolescence, is full of hazards, and that inevitably must come to an end. Like children as they grow to independence, there will come times when you may find your relationship to the organization grows confusing and fraught. It is a stage of development in the nonprofit life cycle.

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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

They discussed ways that technology can improve services for people experiencing food insecurity, as well as the policy changes, investments, and cross-sector partnerships that are necessary to drive meaningful, lasting change. Lead Associate, Food Security, Save the Children. Rachel Machen. “ Jennifer Thall.

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What strategies can nonprofit leaders use to move program beneficiaries into program partners?

ASU Lodestar Center

Ask for beneficiary feedback before, during, and after program implementation using surveys, discussion forums, and case studies. She is a mentor coach with the Greater Phoenix Urban League Head Start, which strives to bring quality education to Phoenix’s preschool-aged children. Use participatory evaluation , as Rabinowitz suggests.

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Why It’s Time to Rename our Sector from Nonprofit to For-Impact

Saleforce Nonprofit

We recently convened a cross-section of leaders in the for-impact sector to discuss best practices for implementing innovative strategies and tools to support constituent engagement, fundraising, and reporting. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, has helped St. Below are some of the key takeaways from our conversation.

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Two Ways To Use Crowdsourcing for Face-to-Face Conferences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Crowdsourcing A Keynote Discussion/Q&A. The conference brings together professionals who working on early learning research, practice, and policy to promote improvement and expansion of services for children ages 0 to 5 in the state. The platform allows viewers to vote on ideas and add their own.

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Slacktivism: Can Cartoons Raise Awareness or Just Make Us Feel Good?

NetWits

In an effort to raise awareness for child abuse, thousands of Facebook users changed their profile photos to one of their favorite childhood cartoon characters (full disclosure: mine was Underdog.) This is for a campaign against violence on children.&# Did you notice something toony about Facebook last weekend?

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