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5 Unique Ways to Thank Recurring Donors

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Their regional fight manager, Brian Schroy, is a registered running coach in pursuit of qualifying for the Olympic Trials in the marathon, so his unique skill set was immediately put to use as a trainer whom recurring donors could connect with in this subscription-based community. Bright Pink: FundHER. Operation Broken Silence: The Renewal.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

We currently have nearly 50,000 Facebook fans and posting there helps us reach the most people, though the focus of how we’re using Facebook is changing (more on that below). What do you think are the most important skills necessary in a social media practitioner? Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and the Notes from the Field WordPress blog.

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Mission Possible: Tell Us Your Symantec Story and Win Prizes!

Tech Soup

Symantec helps nonprofits make their mission possible. Tell us how your mission is made possible with Symantec's help — for a chance to win awesome prizes! This Challenge is void in Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and all countries under sanction by the U.S. What is your nonprofit's mission?

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Take Command -- How To Be A First Responder In Business (Interview With Author Jake Wood)

Eric Jacobsen Blog

What leadership skills did you learn playing football that then served you well as a Marine? It was a tough pill to swallow, but I clearly understood that my role as a leader from the rear and as a mentor helped contribute to the success of the team. Wood : Football taught me a lot about the power of understanding roles.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

It's really designed to make sure that all solutions are both emerging from the local community and tailored to the community's needs, and are developing the leadership skills of the most promising and emerging leaders at the same time. They're walking away with skills. We like to refer to it as a "people-powered" development process.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

That means building in more structure and more discipline, and for myself, it was a lot of letting go of doing everything and knowing how to do it, you know, figuring everything out and really bringing in people who bring that different set of skills. I ended up going into bodywork to have a skill that I could perform with my hands.

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Tools to End Poverty: An Interview with Martin Fisher of KickStart

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KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. And you have your number one skill, being a farmer. If you are going to try to solve poverty, you've got to help people to make more money. You have to spend time there.