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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

Mission: Under the Laughs for the Troops umbrella, you will find many other great programs to help our veterans, increase awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), raise funds, and recruit volunteers. Impacting: Mental health. Headquarters in: Riverview, FL. Impacting: Mental health.

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Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Echoing Green, Jobs for Change, Julia Cameron and 29 Gifts

Have Fun - Do Good

LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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Fundraising Ideas

Tech Soup

Back to the actual fundraising event, don't wrack your brain for ideas, but put your own twist on your fundraising. Auctions are a great way to raise funds. Consider reaching out to the artist community and within your organization (children in particular) seeking artwork to sell. General Fundraising Ideas.

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Why We Moved the Abbott Square Opening - A Mistake, a Tough Call, & a Pivot: Introducing Abbott Square, Bonus Post

Museum 2.0

We had 2,000 t-shirts to give away, 850 balls to drop, and over a hundred artists, accordionists, salsa dancers, taiko drummers, and bubble ladies ready to go. When we needed funds two years ago, it was my job to inspire people to give. But my realist brain never got the full attention of my cheerleader brain.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

is a nonprofit project pioneering “community funded reporting.” is trying to pioneer this concept of community-funded reporting which is the act of distributing the cost of hiring a reporter across a lot of different people. For a while, we were actually funding one story a week and trying to cycle through those.

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Dreaming of Perpetual Beta: Making Museums More Incremental

Museum 2.0

We invited local artists and community groups to perform. We make room for interns and artists and people who walk in the door with crazy ideas. There are plenty of times I have silenced the exhibit designer in my brain who wanted everything just so, or the museum director who wanted to make our visitors happy all the time.

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

NTEN

BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. Ambitious, multi-layered projects like this have the issue of being hard to fund. Sometimes, the more clarified and niche a project is, the easier it may be to secure funding. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. CLIMBING SACRED MOUNTAIN.

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