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Michelle’s RiseUP Fellowship Experience: RiseUP Fellow to Full Time Employee

Media Cause

Without proper “education,” landing an interview let alone a job working in digital marketing was a pipedream—I found myself stuck, making minimum wage, wearing a well-known green apron simply for the health benefits. That is a loaded question so I’ll opt out for something with a little more structure—what did the RiseUP Fellowship teach me?

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last winter, after Harry and I had a conversation about global warming (and quite a conversation it was for a then eight-year old), and we collaborated on a series of green videos. What a great way to teach your children to become more thoughtful and responsible about the world we live in.

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Bo Eason Teaches You How To Achieve Your A-Game In Life

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Navy Seals, Green Berets, and firefighters have to use this same principle. Bring it to life by internalizing your declaration. He includes those distractions and makes them part of his game. That is what we call ultra-presence or doing a dance with everything around you. By the way, this isn’t limited to great athletes.

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Doing Museum Work: Your Thoughts

Museum 2.0

A few offered solid concrete suggestions that take the big idea of "advocacy" and make it concrete, like list wages on hiring requests and refusing to use unpaid interns. As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. Everyone can learn from others.

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60+ Spring Fundraising Ideas for Every Nonprofit

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Influential women’s panel for International Women’s Day Celebrate International Women’s Day by organizing a panel discussion featuring influential women from your community that other women can purchase tickets to attend. You can also use pies to help teach kids in your community more about math for the day!

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[ASK AN EXPERT] How to be Appropriately Kind to In-Kind Donors?

Bloomerang

Even if you just file a form 990, and aren’t subject to GAAP, it’s useful to follow their recommendations from the perspective of internal management, control and planning. . You can then select either “good” or “service” and type the estimated value in the FMV field.

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Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teachgreen hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. For Washington Trail Association volunteers like Chris O’Brien, donning an orange hard hat out on the trail is a badge of honour. They offer direction, supervision and make outings fun.