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Build a Non-profit Website that Works [Steal These Ideas!]

Get Fully Funded

You will probably need to hire a WordPress developer to build your site, but your developer can teach you how to make updates after your site goes live. All About Your Brand: Logo, Typography, Colors, Photos, and Tone What do you want the look and feel of your site to be? Next, think about photo quality. They invoke a mood.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events. What a great way to teach your children to become more thoughtful and responsible about the world we live in.

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Make This a More Inclusive Season of Giving: Tips for Diversity in Your End-of-Year Fundraising Appeal

sgEngage

Kwanzaa teaches that giving back is a necessity, so reciprocity and philanthropy are inherent to the holiday. Symbols and language to make your appeal more Kwanzaa-inclusive: Candle-lighting is central to Kwanzaa, in the colors of red, green, and black. Photos of multicolored lights, colorful beads, sticky rice, and tea.

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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. There are ways to take the wonderful work you’re doing and expand your reach to teach more people, heal more people and enrich more people’s lives.

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11 Highlights from BlogHer '11

Have Fun - Do Good

Photo by Green LA Girl ) 2. Teaching The Essential Blog Content Development Workshop I loved co-facilitating the Essential Blog Content Development Workshop with Elizabeth Soutter of Da Momma: Motherhood is Not for Wimps , and Julie Weckerlein of Julie and Martin. Photo of Gwen Bell by Joel Longtine. and many more!

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Will Your Nonprofit Cease to Exist? Here’s What You Can Do to Make Sure That Doesn’t Happen

Bloomerang

Here are signs your nonprofit may be in the danger (red) or caution (yellow) zone, rather than the full speed ahead (green) zone: Your budget has stayed the same for quite some time or it has shrunk. There are ways to take the wonderful work you’re doing and expand your reach to teach more people, heal more people, and enrich more lives.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

My mother taught me many things, and I feel like with every year she teaches me more – whether she knows it or not. I see this work in public maps like Open Green Map. I’m incredibly inspired to participate in this year’s To Mama With Love campaign from Epic Change. I see this lesson in the work of 350.org.

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