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Grassroots Campaigning: How to Use Online Channels to Build Offline Support

Connection Cafe

Susan is a grandmother, a cancer survivor and the major ingredient that differentiates organizations that truly make change from those that just make a lot of digital noise. Earlier this year, ACS CAN launched a major campaign around increasing federal funding for cancer research. But, you’d be wrong. Enter Susan.

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

Fight Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is a health impact organization dedicated to ending colorectal cancer and supporting those affected by the disease through patient support, funding research, and impactful policy change. The dashboard lives on PowerPoetry.org/data , a URL shared with supporters. click to advance through pages of report).

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'I Truly Believe That Education is the Antidote for Ignorance, Poverty and War'

ASU Lodestar Center

I was knowledgeable enough about the fundamental role of specific nonprofits, but I never fully grasped the role of nonprofit agencies and their effect on social justice issues as a whole. The American Lung Association’s mission is to improve lung health and prevent lung disease through education, advocacy and research.

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Social Media, Networks, and Data in Patient Healthcare Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I had the honor of participating on a keynote panel at Celgene Corporation’s Patient Partners annual meeting ahead of the ASCO Conference (ASCO is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, prevention and delivery of high-quality patient care). This “Dr.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

The collective knowledge of our Leadership Council makes the Classy Awards a distinction unlike any other. with his colleagues in 2020 who now also collectively oversee Camp Reach for the Sky, a free camp program for kids affected by cancer that is one of only three Gold-Ribbon children’s oncology camps in California . Caryn York.

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Whom Should You Trust to Help with Your Nonprofit?

ASU Lodestar Center

Does he have a personal connection to cancer or diabetes that would help him write compelling fundraising appeals? He may not want to stay in health advocacy, but will learn to write persuasively. Not such common knowledge. Often, the first criterion we think of when hiring employees is their passion for the issue.

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Creating the Perfect Volunteer Recruitment Page (& Start a Great Relationship)

Connection Cafe

At the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) , we have a volunteer structure that includes a lead volunteer in every state and each congressional district. means that Zoe is contacted more quickly and from a local source who will be knowledgeable about activity happening in her area.