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[ASK AN EXPERT] What’s The Best Place To Look For Grant Opportunities If Your Nonprofit Is New?

Bloomerang

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on where to look for grant opportunities for new nonprofits: Dear Charity Clairity, I am a new nonprofit and want to pursue a grant(s) to fund our mission. Any advice on where to look for grants that fit our mission or other funding sources? Sounds great!

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Reflections from Social Good Brasil and a New Word: PhilanthroTeen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Teens As Free Agents. One of things immediately struck me – the crowd was filled with younger people – teens, college students, and millennials who want to use the technology and do social change on their own terms. ” Philantroteens. But I didn’t know their color preference. So, I texted them.

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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The third post in this series, 10 Donation Page Best Practices for Nonprofits , provides detailed advice, but its worth reiterating that the first step in being successful in online fundraising is having well-designed, data-driven donation pages. See Hope Grow raised nearly $460,000 for TreeHouse teens.

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Why Internet Anonymity Is a Necessary Evil

Tech Soup

With anonymity, patients can seek advice from other patients about how to cope with chronic diseases , whether this is HIV, cancer, or another health condition. For example: An LGBT teen may come online to get advice as to how to come out to her or his friends or family, or to look for support on how to deal with bullying.

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Switching gears: How I found my place in volunteering

ASU Lodestar Center

A passion of mine for the last 13 years has been working with high school teens through my church youth group. I loved my job and felt so fed by the work I did and the teens I encountered — which made my next step feel more like a step backward rather than a step forward. Well, mainly because I wanted more for the teens of St.

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Moderating Forums: a Training Video

Wild Apricot

The first of three training videos produced to guide the volunteer moderators who helped run the British Columbia Library Association's 2009 Teen Reading Club, Moderating Forums is jam-packed with down-to-earth advice and guidelines for creating, nurturing and moderating a successful online community. read more ).

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5 Reasons Why You Should Make Mentoring A Priority

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Being able to talk, and get advice from Linda, Star, Wade, & Brian was an amazing experience. She shared, “The experience with the teens was amazing. I’m definitely not a man with all the answers but the advice and time I give comes from my heart, my experience, and it is genuine.

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