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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” She said she wanted to give money to an organization that helped homeless families. I introduced her to my colleague, Mark Horvath’s organization, Invisible People , and we donated. Here’s some resources from VolunteerMatch if you want to volunteer your time to help out hunger organizations. Learning To Give.

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100 Fundraising Email Subject Lines That Will Get Donors to Open Your Email

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Breaking: Record number of homeless people need help in Atlanta . Veterans at risk of homelessness. For example, an education foundation recently sent an email subject line that read: Our teachers are refusing to teach math today! . Help a homeless person come in from the cold. How to make a difference for homeless cats.

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Why I Do Good: Starry Night

Have Fun - Do Good

My mom had a variety of teaching and counseling positions while my dad worked mostly for nonprofits. and my second post, Why I Do Good: The Center and Agape. I was raised to serve. In addition to being very involved with our church community , my parents'' professional work was service-oriented.

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The Neuroscience of Purpose: Recharging in the Nonprofit World

ASU Lodestar Center

If you work for a nonprofit, there’s a good chance that you’re working on a tough problem like the achievement gap, homelessness, or global hunger. That’s why we teach the brain break to kids in school — you not only get that short-term relaxing “aaah,” you’re also building the long-term strength of your brain’s CEO.

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Virtual Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Ideas to Explore

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John Center for Homeless Men recently hosted their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent. With just a couple of clicks, anyone can register their own fundraiser and raise money to help CityTeam with combating hunger and homelessness in their city. BONUS – See this idea in action!

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On saints and advocates

Connection Cafe

I have been reading the wonderful book Forces for Good, by Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant, where this dilemma is presented quite starkly. In trying to answer the question “What makes nonprofits great” they look at twelve exemplary “change makers” and come up with some quite surprising answers.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Executive Compensation"

ASU Lodestar Center

—oh and while youre at it, can you please end all hunger everywhere?" Or, "Please give this family a place to stay for the night; and why dont you see if you can eliminate homelessness in the meantime?" Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Fear not, nonprofit professionals! All You Need is Love. and a Whole Lot of Communi.