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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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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

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Even though there aren’t as many people today reading actual newspapers or watching the 6 o’clock news these days, your local media still reaches a large audience of people in your community who need to know about your nonprofit’s work. The key to getting your nonprofit’s story in the news is building relationships with local journalists.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

Find the European Court of Justice press release here. The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. Very sophisticated for a student team. An App To End World Hunger? How this will move the needle on world hunger? Here in the U.S.,

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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. My colleagues and I spent an afternoon of job shadowing at our office with ten students from the high school. I asked the group, “What do you think are the most pressing problems in the world today?”

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GivingTuesday 2018 Scales Generosity and Kindness to New Highs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We know from the early online giving contests that making nonprofits play the hunger games isn’t the best way, buy neither is the big boom of a big match dispersed all at once. The results for this week’s GivingTuesday 2018 have been reported. Why can’t Facebook use AI and algorithms to disperse the money in a equitable way?

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Twenty "Fearless" Changemakers

Have Fun - Do Good

Darius Graham | Social Innovation Project | Washington, DC The Social Innovation Project tackles pressing social issues by providing seed funding and resources to help transform ideas into sustainable programs. provides a 12-week afterschool program and 4-month paid apprenticeship wellness program for low-income high school students.