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2023 Top Nonprofit Conferences

Whole Whale

Content is focused on the trends and tactics in fundraising with a lot of time (we’re talking hours a day) is allocated to the sponsor exhibit hall. Many organizations involved in the old Hands-On Points of Light and AmeriCorps networks. Representation from all of the main players in the CRM and donation platform games are here.

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How can nonprofits successfully engage the next generation of donors?

ASU Lodestar Center

Crowdfunding and giving circles are a favored trend amongst Millennials today. An AmeriCorps alum and recent inductee of the Nu Lambda Mu International Honor Society , Ms. Seeking out young community leaders to help recruit those in their networks creates new champions for a mission and potential donors in return.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

Before becoming a Public Ally, I somewhat understood the nonprofit sector, since the year before I had served as a City Year Corps Member in Chicago through AmeriCorps. posted by Michelle Jimenez Class 12 Public Ally.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Social Media is all.

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Friday, May 27, 2011 Research Friday: Social Media is all around us - How do we embrace the trend? Two weeks ago, I introduced readers to La Pianas "Convergence: How Five Trends Will Reshape the Social Sector." [1] This week, Ill discuss the second trend, entitled "Technological Advances Abound." They want to connect.

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Learning in the White Space: 5 Unintended Lessons from a Marketing Class

NTEN

or " So what if I don't get on board with the latest trend? " I've even skipped out on some trends (ahem, including one rather large social networking site). She got pulled into #nptech as an AmeriCorps VISTA with Teaming for Technology 12 years ago, and has been asking "So what?" And that's okay. and "Why does it matter?"

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, is the.

ASU Lodestar Center

Backman and Smith have called commercialization a major trend with potentially portentous consequences for civil society. I think it's fascinating how current trends can be at complete variance with reality. The two trends may balance each other out when looking at sector-wide data. It is a fascinating phenomenon.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Anne Kotleba, Part 2

ASU Lodestar Center

As part of the national Nonprofit Leadership Alliance, our students have an opportunity to attend the Alliance Management Institute (AMI), which is a gathering of students, agencies, and alumni working all over the country to come together to brainstorm trends in the field, hear from professionals, organizations, and agencies -- some of them working (..)

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