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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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Biker Philanthropy: TechSoup Revs Up Donated Computer Programs for Kids

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I gave Greg Reaster a call to find out what they were doing in the Tampa Bay area. BIKERSCAP is an all-volunteer project that started in March 2009 in the depths of the great recession. After that Reaster began putting ads in the local paper soliciting for computers. " Naturally, we were excited to check this out.

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From Ashton Kutcher to Soup: Super Bowl Giving

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The Souper Bowl of Caring 's mission is to use, "Super Bowl weekend to mobilize youth to fight hunger and poverty in their local communities." The youth at the Farmville Baptist Church in Farmville, VA will be collecting donations after the service for their local food bank, FACES. This year's winner was the Green Bay Packers.

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5 College Fundraising Ideas (That are Fun and Easy!)

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A great example of this is at a local university here in Tampa — The University of South Florida. Miles for Moffitt” has been hosted on campus for the last twelve years (now being moved to downtown Tampa as of 2018). Volunteers are needed for water stations and cheering on participants.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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The WHAT IF Conference is for anyone who supports nonprofit organizations, especially staff and board members, volunteers, donors, foundations and corporate funders. State/Local / #MCNAC16 / @SmartNonprofits. State/Local. State/Local / #MadisonNonprofitDay / @nonprofitday. State/Local. State/Local.