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Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and sandcastles as therapy

NTEN

Learn more about our flipped classroom model, what you can look forward to learning when you''re there, and register! Invisible People is hitting the road with Virgin Mobile, Sevenly, and Ford to bring awareness to youth homelessness. Not in San Francisco? Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!

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Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and a sandcastles as therapy

NTEN

Learn more about our flipped classroom model, what you can look forward to learning when you''re there, and register! Invisible People is hitting the road with Virgin Mobile, Sevenly, and Ford to bring awareness to youth homelessness. Not in San Francisco? Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!

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Time to Give a Little

ASU Lodestar Center

You want to help the homeless? It takes only minutes to get going on the site, and there are several different options to get potential donors interested, including contests. Each classroom teacher sends updates about their project and writes special thank you notes for your support. ASU Lodestar Center. Rescue dogs?

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest. Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? It's your choice.

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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

Get Fully Funded

Sometimes it’s a matter of zeroing in on a single aspect of your organization’s work or an unexpected story, such as two volunteers falling in love while serving soup side-by-side in the homeless shelter’s kitchen. 5K will raise money for school’s outdoor classroom and track . Avoid exclamation points.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible. Adding a new data point to it.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

We collaborated with two local organizations--the Rebele Homeless Family Shelter and Dominican Oaks retirement community--to conduct oral histories and produce a small audio and photo-based exhibit on maintaining love in tough situations. interracial marriage, keeping a family together while homeless) and others are more immediate (i.e.