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Forward Unto the Breach: Don’t Rest on Nonprofit Laurels

Bloomerang

Here are signs your work may be in the danger (red) or caution (yellow) zone, rather than full speed ahead (green) zone: Your budget has stayed the same for quite some time, or it has shrunk. If you’re involved in any type of health or human services, you can offer an expansive range of prevention and early intervention classes.

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60+ Spring Fundraising Ideas for Every Nonprofit

Qgiv

Gardening classes Another great nature-themed spring fundraising idea is to offer gardening classes. Local gardening experts can have the chance to demonstrate their green thumb and teach others in workshops that cover topics such as organic gardening, composting, or urban gardening.

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

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Will you offer classes? Choose a branch that is close to home to make your life easier. Little Green Light is great for startups, as is Bloomerang, which has a free version that might work for your organization in the very early stages. If you want to help first generation college students, how do you want to help them?

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A Hearty Congratulations to TechSoup Members Winning Google Impact Challenge Awards

Tech Soup

Pogo Park is transforming three neglected parks in Richmond California into magical play spaces for 8,000 at-risk children. They also carry on the work of visionary founder and board member, Van Jones, especially in the area of developing green jobs training programs for low-income youth.

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10 Tips for Managing Social Media Burnout

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Pick one social networking profile and keep it entirely for fun and your personal life. Get more greens. If you can afford it, join a gym or take a yoga class. If you work in an office, then when you leave for the day, leave the work in the office and don’t login to your organization’s profiles when you get home.

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What's Your Moment of Obligation?

Have Fun - Do Good

While re-reading Echoing Green's book, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , I've been thinking about one of its main ideas--that people have moments of obligation. Moments of obligation are described as: "At certain moments in your life, you may find yourself pulled toward a path leading to work that will benefit others.

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Yoga for Social Change

Have Fun - Do Good

Speakers include Julia Butterfly Hill of Circle of Life , John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America , and Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart. If you are a environmentally conscious yoga studio or instructor, you can join the Green Yoga Association, and check out this month's "green" issue of Yoga Journal.