The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 15, 2023

A Stroll Down Memory Lane: The Origins of National Nonprofit Day National Nonprofit Day traces its origins back to the Tariff Act of 1894, a significant marker in history that set the precedent for tax exemptions for charitable institutions. Take, for instance, the story of Mission K9 Rescue.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 31, 2024

A good portion of her working life is traveling to see the implementation of Microsoft Philanthropies’ work. Once I hit university and then started working, I could see how technology was developing fast and going to impact so many sectors in so many ways. And that’s why I wanted to work at Microsoft.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In my four decades as a senior fundraising executive, part-time consultant, and nonprofit CEO, I have worked with (or served on) 20 nonprofit boards. 1 Throughout my time working with nonprofit boards, I’ve found that dysfunction often starts with lack of accountability in terms of recruiting and onboarding of new members.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Breast Cancer Awareness Month serves as an annual reminder of the importance of early detection and preventative care for breast cancer, as well as an acknowledgement of breast cancer patients, survivors, and researchers who do important work searching for a cure for the disease. History of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, we were using more and more technology in our work and personal lives. Some manage a handful of volunteers, others work with many thousands. We spoke with 181 volunteer managers that work in human service organizations, governmental agencies, higher education, hospitals, zoos, and more.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

I was with two close friends who work in social service organizations focusing on homelessness and criminal justice respectively. We all work for nonprofits. And we each have specific interests in increasing access, connection, and empowerment of marginalized people. Museum work is mostly non-contact.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

While touring the island, listening to my pleasant audio guide chattering away on my headphones, I learned of a constituent empowerment campaign from long ago. His scathing editorials demanded that America step up and provide a home for such a beautiful work of art. It worked for Pulitzer and it could work for you.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change isn''t an art club or a history group. It''s about empowerment and community leadership through art and history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2008

I also had a chance to work with Ore through Nancy White and KM4DEV Technology Stewardship issue. It is amazing to me that we have this rich history of working on project together, but we have never met face-to-face! s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC). s Technology Empowerment Centre. Of course, said yes.

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Media Cause

JUNE 29, 2022

Since the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade and put the precedents that protect LGBTQ+ rights and my marriage at risk, finding comfort and support in this community—while working to protect it—is more important than ever. What originally felt like a difference that made me less than turned into a feeling of empowerment.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

The partners we work with--to catalyze projects within and beyond our walls--are just as important as our visitors to fulfilling our mission. I see how we extend our impact and build community through dedicated partnerships, thoughtful bridge-building, and advocacy work. And then, of course, there are many organizations that do both.

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Everyaction

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Created in 1998, the United Nations Foundation links the United Nations' work with others around the world, helping the UN address a range of global issues, including climate change, global health, women’s empowerment, peace and security, poverty eradication, and more. Let’s start with the basics.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

The Media and Training Centre for Health specializes in the design and development of community learning models that promote health and empowerment in marginalized communities. Greenpeace Africa works to protect and preserve the natural environment of Africa. The organization focuses particularly on women and students in rural areas.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. The next challenge we’re working on is to bring this incredible library to the rest of the world. It was highly controversial.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. Let’s start with empowerment.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Areas served: US with a focus on the Great Lakes region. The Patrina Foundation.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Areas served: US with a focus on the Great Lakes region. The Patrina Foundation.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

We want to share the methods and tools that make it work. Our near-term goal is to enroll at least 200 organizations by the end of 2020, collectively pledging to involve one million new people in their work. We selected a First Wave that reflects diversity of geography, size, and sector, so we can see who this works best for and why.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. We believed that our museum programming would improve if we spent more time as staff members and trustees learning and working with these leaders on their projects throughout the County.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. I''ve gotten more comfortable and more confident with the idea of the museum as political body that advocates for empowerment and social bridging. Empowerment? When we really live our mission, that''s where it takes us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

stream, reading a chat history, answering ims, and taking notes! They hope to reach out to residents and spark conversations about philanthropic work and to give advice and assistance to residents who want to advance charitable causes. I just came from an historic and ground breaking event. The John D. and Catherine T.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing. That's a more complicated question.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety. Overnight, educational opportunities disappeared — as did the right to play sports, work, and hold office.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work. I ended up in it from way back, from where I grew up.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Working with land, they bring people together to design and practice strategies for healing, health and reparative economics. ?. NAACP Legal Defense Fund —LDF works to protect the most vulnerable in our society. Black Youth Project — BYP has various local chapters. Find yours here. Speaking of Racism.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

I found many parallels between the history and development of the design museum and of the MIM. Rouer and Mr. Thibault encouraged the group to think creatively when it comes to working together to construct lasting relationships. I also enjoyed a presentation by Alice Black, Deputy Director of the Design Museum in London.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

I found many parallels between the history and development of the design museum and of the MIM. Rouer and Mr. Thibault encouraged the group to think creatively when it comes to working together to construct lasting relationships. I also enjoyed a presentation by Alice Black, Deputy Director of the Design Museum in London.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

This post was written by my colleague Nora Grant, Community Programs Coordinator at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. There are many different models, including The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History , The New York Met , SF Mobile Museum , and even a Pop Up Prison Museum.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

At EveryAction, we live and work by the motto "Build the World You Want." No matter how much you give or to whom, the important thing is to support those organizations whose tireless work is striving for a world you want to live in. To that end, we've put together a list of nonprofits doing their part in building a better tomorrow.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

During our conversation, Seane talked about what inspired the creation of Off the Mat, Into the World, her trip to Cambodia, the connection between your inner work and your outer work, and the tools Off the Mat, Into the World uses to help people determine how they are being called to be of service.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

And I work here at Ella Baker Center. It's really an honor to be working here doing some amazing work with a new program, Reclaim the Future. He came and talked about affirmative action, we became friends at that point, and started to learn about the different work that we were each doing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

It works in over 160 countries around the world. KR: The Global Fund for Women has an extraordinary commitment to keeping our doors open so that as many organizations working to advance women's human rights internationally can really gain access to resources that they so desperately need.

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