ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. In the finance class of the MNpS program at ASU, we were introduced to a fascinating article by Jim Fruchterman: For Love or Lucre. Yet another alternative is to form a Social Cooperative. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Keep a list of students or your group members on hand to make sure everyone gets a candygram, and add a sign to your table giving people an option to order extra candygrams to cover the cost. Pick a day and ask for donations to wear PJs and slippers to classes all day. kids that have food allergies. Teacher or Principal Challenge.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

Student Many students are required to volunteer for a certain number of hours to fulfill requirements for their classes or clubs. In addition, many high school and college students participate in service-learning projects, which combine elements of education and volunteerism.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2010

With her family's support, Krystal applied to study at Holden High School , an alternative school in Orinda, California. A nonprofit organization with 13 full-time and 7 part-time staff, Holden aims to provide a safe, open-minded learning environment for students who haven't had success in public schools or elsewhere. read more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 27, 2014

To communicate his thoughts, he uses an alternative augmentative communication device. When our team last caught up with him, he was a busy student at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, rejoicing in his ability to read independently and reach his full potential. This wasn’t always the case, though.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But as I tell my students and clients regularly, writing to raise money is a learnable skill that you can master. I use an online thesaurus called Word Hippo to come up with alternatives and try out different versions of the copy. This class will teach you the nuts and bolts of copywriting that raises money.

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Professional Profit Fundraising Tips 67

AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

These types of events may also provide a sense of community when distance learning, so it is important to put your best foot forward and consider a more sophisticated virtual event platform so that you are sure to impress parents, students, and possible donors. Schedule one night for your students and family members to meet each other.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

These types of events may also provide a sense of community when distance learning, so it is important to put your best foot forward and consider a more sophisticated virtual event platform so that you are sure to impress parents, students, and possible donors. Schedule one night for your students and family members to meet each other.

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Virtual Ideas Virtual Classroom Classroom 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

we at Benetech were concerned that the Authors Guild’s arguments in their appeal would remove the legal authorization for the services that we provide, relegating people with disabilities to second-class status. Furthermore, they even decided the Authors Guild did not have standing to bring the suit in the first place.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Tutor students so they can reach their potential in school? Think about your audience as someone who doesn’t know anything about food insecurity, homelessness, first generation college students, or animal abuse. An alternative is to find an established organization you can partner with or who will serve as your fiscal sponsor.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

Virtual options can be particularly helpful when fundraising for education, as they allow you to reach out to supporters of your students who may be further away, such as aunts and uncles, grandparents, and family friends. They also give you a unique opportunity to get the family members of those students to make a recurring donation.

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Education Virtual Fundraising Guide 52

Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

The organization’s unique approach fights against illegal wildlife trade by reducing demand for wildlife products with world-class communications campaigns. Because We Love Where We Live allows donors to play a vital role in the fundraising efforts that provide environmental education to thousands of students.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Most people you work with, from students to volunteers to Board members, will already know how to use them. If you want greater security than Drive offers, Dropbox and Box are popular alternatives. Another way to gain access is to sign up for a class through Candid , formerly Foundation Center. Ask before signing up!

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

However, a student this summer pointed out another meaning of the term: in psychiatry , a neologism is a unique term coined and used by someone with a mental illness, evidence of a thought disorder. Each of these issues stems from policies that most nonprofits enjoy (or fight) as a class. In a recent chapter on the history of the U.S.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

On one of the first days of her journalism class, Nora’s teacher made a proclamation: “Class, today we’re going to practice writing ‘ledes’ for the school newspaper. I’m going to give you all the same facts, and I want each of you to write the ‘lede’ of the story if it was going to appear in the student paper.”.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA). One of my favorite places for a long time now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

One of their donors was a class of kindergarteners at the Berwick Alternative Elementary School. The class of 27 students have been collecting pennies and donated $100 to Ohio Nature Education, a nonprofit offering environmental education programs, and secured $150 for the organization.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

students) with a collection of 220,000+ (and counting) accessible books—the world’s largest library of its kind. we’ve gone from addressing a sliver of the “accessible book famine” to solving most of it, and we now deliver an accessible book to a student for less than one-fifteenth of the cost of traditional approaches. In the U.S.,

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Copyright Law Accessibility Library 196

Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Systems are capable of not only organizing Instructor-Led Training (ILT), but they now house E-Learnings, Gamification, Mobile Learnings, and alternative learning objects. To start, the technology which we are appreciating now is far vaster than anything we could have imagined a mere 10 years ago.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

" In this spirit, New Heights provides everything from tutoring services to curriculums, a library with more than 3,000 books, field trips, and online classes. Not every student can be reached in person. New Heights has used Citrix GoToMeeting to connect teachers and tutors with students. Inspiring Optimism Through Results.

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Education Collaboration Online Ohio 36

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

This is a guest blog from Anna Reid, an Amherst student who interned with Bookshare.org International this past summer. Over 90% of these people live in third world countries, where books and newspapers in Braille or other alternative formats are very difficult to acquire. Thanks to Anna for saying yes, and for sharing her experiences!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 28, 2005

For most students, the freshman year of college is a time for discovering intellectual strength, getting behind a cause or two, and exchanging rapid-fire theories on life, the universe and everything at 3 AM when you should be writing the paper that's due at 9. Chancey Fleet William & Mary student Bookshare.org Volunteer since 2001

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NTEN

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Our members are researchers, parent/family educators, college faculty, students, therapists, counselors, and more. Every year our staff works hard to provide 1,000 to 1,200 of them with an annual conference experience that is both world class and affordable.

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Case Study Internet Mobile Studies 89

Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Exercise Class You can hold a regular exercise class with a volunteer instructor—like a boot camp-style fitness program—for long-term fundraising. Alternately, you can sponsor a trip to a local pumpkin patch with entry fees going towards your nonprofit. You can also offer this as a standing class instead of a one-time workshop.

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Ideas Fundraising Movie Classes 98

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

We often talk about museums as leaders in providing substantive, essential alternatives to formal schooling. We are finally leaving behind the 18th century model of education where groups of students are expected to learn at a standard pace. This is an epic moment in the history of education, who wouldn’t want to be part of it?

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Virtual cooking class. Give your supporters the opportunity to try a new recipe and bring their inner chefs out with a virtual cooking class fundraiser. Encouraging kids to read isn’t always easy, but with an added element of competition, you might just turn students into avid bibliophiles! Virtual baking class.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2007

So, although I'm not taking a class into second life yet, I am spending a couple of hours a month participating in second life exploration, discussions, and learning. We need to encourage the development of easy to use, safe, classroom environments that can be controlled by the teacher but also allow students to enter 3D virtual environments.

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Environment Education Virtual Second Life 50

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Classes Nonprofit organizations often offer classes that cover a wide array of topics, from literacy and language skills to financial literacy and job training. Depending on your costs and the needs of the community, classes can be an important revenue stream while also operating as the tip of your new donor acquisition spear.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

For the first time, I didn't feel like a crazy person for wanting to have an alternative vision for my career. If you are a college student, or someone in career transition, who wants to find work that fulfills your big vision for a better world, I have a few words of advice, and some books to recommend. Sign up for it. Find support.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Some of the new volunteers are high school students, others are college professors. This week, some of the regular catalogers are re-shelving material from this weekend’s Pop Up Library, our temporary reading room that travels around town providing supplemental local perspective for cultural events and classes.

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Chicago Library Public Culture 48

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

This can be a themed, large group photo or a collage of the class or group. If the class is already working on a big project, document the progress. Offer household items, furniture, and textiles that are embellished with students’ handprints or fingerprints. A favorite handwritten recipe they love. Big projects.

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Donation Fundraising Donor Classes 52

Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

This idea can also be paired with a number of other fundraising event possibilities like movie nights, lock-ins (for older students), and other childcare activities. Workers (they don’t have to be students!) Craft nights or classes. Painting classes are a popular activity for small groups of people. Hold a work-a-thon.

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Ideas Fundraising Fun Money 98

Double the Donation

APRIL 12, 2021

Classy is a B Corp Certified social enterprise that helps nonprofits maximize their impact through a suite of world-class online fundraising tools. Paypal Alternatives for Nonprofits: 11 Tools to Raise More. Top 7 GoFundMe alternatives. Check out these resources: Digital Fundraising Alternatives to GoFundMe’s Charity Solution.

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Platform Charity Fundraising Registration 52

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, for example, if I provide an after-school program, I just use that a lot because I ran an after-school program for over a decade, but if I’m delivering academic programs, then I’m going to be looking at the number of students served. “We are serving X number of students right now.” And for a good reason.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I could practically teaching this class. We had surveyed an alternative high school and half the kids had said, “There’s no adult that I can talk to but I need to talk to somebody.” ” We were floored that half the students were raising their hands. Move aside, Julie. I appreciate that as well.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

In April, I gave 13 UW graduate students a simple challenge: make an exhibit that gets strangers to talk to each other. Last month, student Nicole Robert wrote about the concept for Advice: Give it, Get it, Flip it, Fuck it. The exhibit experienced low traffic overall in an odd area of the UW student center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

what is wrong with high hanging fruit?) – and can extend beyond conference blogging; plenty of teachers do well by having students blog classes/lecture for not only the benefit of other students, but would, IMHO, provide an instructor an interesting insight into how their “audience” is getting the “message”.

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