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Study offers lessons on public health efforts to prevent gun violence

Candid

Engaging with local community leaders and residents early and often is key to implementing public health and racial justice approaches to preventing gun violence successfully, a report from the Annie E. Improving Community Safety Through Public Health Strategies: Lessons From Atlanta And Milwaukee." Annie E. Casey Foundation finds.

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Normalizing seeking support for mental health takes collective action

Candid

Reprinted from The Atlanta Women’s Foundation. Locally, NAMI of Georgia has a list of events happening to raise awareness and normalize seeking and receiving mental health care. Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. United Way of Greater Atlanta. The United States is ready for a mass mental health intervention.

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New Frontiers in Fundraising

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Additionally, Rebecca is a digital mapper for the Tanzania Development Trust mapping rural Tanzania to aid the work of local anti-FGM activists. She is also a crisis line operator with the mental health charity Shout!

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Fundraising on the Blockchain: What Nonprofits Need to Know

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Additionally, Rebecca is a digital mapper for the Tanzania Development Trust mapping rural Tanzania to aid the work of local anti-FGM activists. She is also a crisis line operator with the mental health charity Shout!

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[UPCOMING WEBINAR] Fundraising on the Blockchain: What Nonprofits Need to Know

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Additionally, Rebecca is a digital mapper for the Tanzania Development Trust mapping rural Tanzania to aid the work of local anti-FGM activists. She is also a crisis line operator with the mental health charity Shout!

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Recommended Conference: NTEN

VisionLink

We just returned from the 10th annual Non-Profit Technology Network Conference, held in Atlanta this week, which was attended by over 1,400 representatives from non-profits from around the world. We discussed data sharing on common technical platforms, and data sharing across dissimilar systems.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. Why Social Media?

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