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September Cause Awareness: National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

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Encourage conversations with friends and family about challenging the stigma and attitudes around mental health, or attend a local suicide prevention walk and invite your friends and family to join you. If you want to take things a step further, look up your local crisis center or community hotline and become a trained volunteer.

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Alumni giving’s growing relationship with high-profile, big money donors 

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Whether you’re a development officer at a university, a nonprofit partnering with a local college, or a grateful alumnus seeking to give back, today’s changing landscape of alumni giving will likely impact you. Boone Pickens—who died in 2019—gave $120 million as a legacy gift to his alma mater, Oklahoma State University (OSU).

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10 Awesome LGBTQ Organizations You Should Support This Pride Month

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There is no better time to support local and national nonprofits protecting LGBTQ rights and serving the LGBTQ community, and while there are far too many organizations doing great work to list them all, these are a few that we're big fans of. They work at the local, state, and federal level to advance transgender equality.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

They currently partner with 48 local organizations in 17 countries that work to secure equal educational access and high-quality education for all children. Areas served: Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas. Global Fund For Children. They provide education tailored to girls’ needs. Robin Hood.

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Top Lessons from GivingTuesday 2023

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By highlighting a combined focus on improving the aesthetic beauty of their local S-Line while also fighting against food insecurity, this campaign created a sophisticated connection between donors and the cause itself. What you can learn : Create a cohesive story about what GivingTuesday campaign donations will fund.

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Pottsboro Area Library: The Winner of TechSoup’s February Success Story Digital Connector Challenge

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Pottsboro is a small town located 75 minutes north of Dallas on the Texas-Oklahoma border. A local TV station employee was hired to work with the teens in a 6-week course where they created a promotional video for the library. They recruited a local volunteer to teach the kids Adobe InDesign to lay out the publication.

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How to Incorporate March Madness in Your Nonprofit Fundraising

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Anyone can become a quick basketball expert by predicting that North Dakota State would beat Oklahoma or that Mercer can play superior basketball to Duke. Be sure to know your local laws for lotteries and raffles to see if you need to obtain a license before starting. Free guitar lessons!) Brackets for Good.