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Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also, if you have not read it, Kivi Leroux-Miller has written a stellar piece called “ The Heroes and Villains of Give Local America Story. “ Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time – Guest Post by Peter Panepento. Last year, Give Local America raised $68.5

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Court Rules That Cars Can Be For Kids

The NonProfit Times

Kars4Kids, a Lakewood, New Jersey charity, first deployed its earworm 1-877-KARS-4-KIDS jingle in commercials that began airing locally in the New York-New Jersey region in 1999. America Can! Colin Weatherwax, CEO of America Can, said his group is considering an appeal. However, only one of them is happy with the result.

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Recruiting nonprofit volunteers for legislative campaign success

EveryAction

This is the time to answer questions like: What states will we be targeting? After answering those questions, you’ll likely realize that you need more volunteers in certain districts or even entire states. Create a petition and ask some local volunteers or staff to gather signatures at those events.

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Are There Too Many Nonprofits in America?

NonProfit Hub

America’s nonprofit sector has steadily grown over the past century, which has left a lot of people hesitant to start new nonprofit organizations and uncertain about the future of their already-existing ones. The post Are There Too Many Nonprofits in America? In a new study titled “ A Field Too Crowded?

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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our first cohort of Community Fellows came together last week to dig into the topic, specifically investigating: How might we support food banks and food suppliers in anticipating people’s needs locally to provide nutritious meals with dignity? Director of Advocacy, Policy, and Research, Hunger Free America. Emilio Tavarez.

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Why Can’t the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector Scale Generosity? #givedaylessons

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What Happened on Give Local America Day? Early on Give Local America Day , reports of slow page loads and server crashes started to trickle in from a couple of community foundations hosting Giving Days using the Kimbia platform. I think I suffered PSTD from this watching and why this blog post was not written earlier).

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

This Impact Lab cohort sets out to address the question: How might we enable female, small-scale farmers in maximizing food production and planning proactively? What are ways of translating early warning dashboards captured at the global level into local action? Senior Program Manager, Oxfam America. What Ideas Were Generated?

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