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Preparing Your Nonprofit to Move Beyond the Founder

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One that, like actual childhood and early adolescence, is full of hazards, and that inevitably must come to an end. It can also mean a certain rigidity in how things unfold alongside a tendency to insist that things be done as you envision them, even when there are alternate routes that may play to the strengths of staff more successfully.

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Are you celebrating Giving Tuesday? These NTEN Members are!

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The Trust for Public Land TransForm Transportation Alternatives United Nations Foundation United Way for Southeastern Michigan United Way of Genesee County Vermont Foodbank Volunteers of America Wade Edwards Foundation and Learning Lab Women Employed World Food Program USA YES! Find them all at GivingTuesday.org 2-1-1 Tampa Bay Cares, Inc.

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Build a Non-profit Website that Works [Steal These Ideas!]

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Primary colors evoke childhood and optimism. An alternative is to use stock photos, but this too brings challenges. Choose a color palette for your website that reflects your brand and how you want people to feel. Blue and green are cool, calming colors that work great for outdoorsy, environmental nonprofits.

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Seven Ways to Make Sure Your Blog Gets Noticed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As childhood obesity disproportionally impacts children of color, we specifically used social media strategies to reach communities of color. 1 item of discussion was childhood obesity, which garnered 65 out of more than 400 tweets! After initially promoting the blog carnival on our network, which has a social media reach of 3.5

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom. The American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) is currently selling a t-shirt with the names of 3,400 children and teens who have fought or are still fighting childhood cancer.

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8 Creative Fundraising Ideas to Advance Your Mission

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Louie’s Kids is a nonprofit that fights childhood obesity and promotes family wellness. . Alternatively, allowing a smaller number of raffle tickets with a higher price will increase the donor’s odds. Keep amounts and explanations simple and use examples. Below is an example of a two-sided donation card.

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How Independent Fundraising Momentum is Reshaping Traditional P2P

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Brandon made his next major foray into crowdfunding a few months later with an appeal to support childhood cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. In the fall of 2015, Humans of New York ’s Brandon Stanton launch a very brief, very powerful fundraising campaign to support Syrian refugees. Within a matter of weeks this campaign raised $3.8