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Family Volunteering – All Together Now!

VQ Strategies

November 20, 2021 is Family Volunteer Day – a global day of service that celebrates the power of families who work together to support their communities and neighborhoods. For generations, parents and their children have responded to the needs of neighbors, organizations, and their community by rolling up their sleeves and working together.

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5 Community Needs That Companies Can Impact Now

Connection Cafe

As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on and continues to cause distress, corporations are being entrusted – and expected – to lead the way to support and help solve the world’s most pressing issues. Five pressing issues that have emerged as priorities for corporate philanthropy and volunteerism are: 1.

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Agents of Change: Fostering Freedom & Independence through Nonprofit Activism & Social Impact

The Modern Nonprofit

Advocating for Social Justice: Standing Up for Rights and Freedoms Nonprofit organizations often lead the charge in advocating for social justice, engaging communities in conversations about pressing issues that affect fundamental rights and freedoms. This organization goes beyond simply advocating for women’s rights locally.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. Find the European Court of Justice press release here. Find what TechSoup Global thinks about the new FCC net neutrality decision here. Here in the U.S.,

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Interviews with 69 Changemakers: 6th Anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast

Have Fun - Do Good

2012 Stacey Edgar, Founder, Global Girlfriend listen 2011 Gabriela Masala, Founder, One Love Alliance listen Robert Wolfe, Co-Founder, Crowdrise listen Aneesha Raghunathan, Founder, Hope Line Fashions listen Rachel Cohen, Founder and Executive Director, Hand2Paw listen Kathy LeMay, Founder, Raising Change. Happy listening!

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Interviews with 56 Changemakers: 5th Anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast

Have Fun - Do Good

listen read Jessica Prentice, Co-Owner, Three Stone Hearth: A Community Supported Kitchen.

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How Skills-Based Volunteerism Creates Transformational Experiences

Connection Cafe

One of my core values, both personally and professionally, is to give back to my local community. I asked the group, “What do you think are the most pressing problems in the world today?” The most prominent answers were hunger, poverty, racism, education, police brutality, and pollution.

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