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10 Years of PeaceTalks: What Does Peace Mean to You?

Saleforce Nonprofit

Why does nobody hear the voices when all the children are yelling and crying and running from bombs?’ Known for her efforts to advance women’s rights in Afghanistan, Zarifa experienced an untenable career in politics. I asked my mom ‘Mom, why does nobody hear us? Why does nobody save the children? And my mom told me ‘You can tweet’.

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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

Qgiv

According to Prosper Strategies , a leading nonprofit communications firm, strength-based messaging “emphasizes the strengths, opportunities and power of an individual, group, or community. These guidelines can apply to all sectors of the nonprofit landscape: Use “person-first” language. Focus on the individual, not their circumstance.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

What the best piece of advice you could offer nonprofits about social media, and online communications in general? I feel very lucky to work in a field I enjoy at an organization whose mission I support and who encourages the voices of everyone to be heard—our staff, our supporters and the women in our programs. Anything else?

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Are you celebrating Giving Tuesday? These NTEN Members are!

NTEN

Global Fund for Women GlobalGiving Good360 Goodwill Industries International Goodwill Industries of Akron GRACE Greater Twin Cities United Way Healthy Schools Campaign Healthy Teen Network Helen Keller International Immigration Equality Interfaith Worker Justice Ipas Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America IREX Irving Cares LeadingAge League of Women (..)

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

I have talked many times before about the way we as nonprofit organizations and changemakers set our goals. (If She originally founded the Voice of Women Organization (VWO) to educate girls in Kabul in secret schools under the Taliban, and has since expanded to support and assist underprivileged women and children throughout Afghanistan.

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How Text Messaging Has Revolutionized Giving

BoardAssist

Most of our board placements love nothing better than joining a board where they can be a voice of change. Perhaps that voice in 2017 will be to help your nonprofit adopt text messaging as a new way of fundraising. As mobile phone use continues to surge, texting is becoming an increasingly relevant tool for nonprofits.

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Giving Circle Book Group: Books by Women Visionaries and Their Organizations

Have Fun - Do Good

Because I love to read, I've been thinking it would be cool to have a Giving Circle Book Group where the group reads an inspiring book by a nonprofit, or an individual affiliated with a nonprofit, and then gives to that cause. Brodsky documents the inside story of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA).

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