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Flexibility and Resilience Carries the Day for Big Brothers Big Sisters Houston

Greater Giving

For seven years, BBBS hosted BIG Taste of Houston, a popular annual fundraiser that celebrated the local restaurant and bar scene. Taking a new approach to a tried and true formula presents a lot of unknowns, but the fundraising team at BBBS took on this challenge with a spirit of adaptability and a “failure is not an option” attitude.

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Fundraising QuickStart Program

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Your mindset and personal attitudes will make or break your ability to engage donors and prospects in your mission. You’ll get tips on how to spread the word about your nonprofit including working with the local media to get your nonprofit in the news. BONUS #2: “How to Take the Fear Out of Fundraising” ebook and audio.

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Developing a Participatory, Provocative History Project at a Small Museum in Minnesota: Interview with Mary Warner

Museum 2.0

I called Mary to learn more about this brilliant example of a small museum thinking in big and courageous ways about community participation in local history. Why did you decide to collect essays as opposed to digital media, perhaps video or audio? That letter didn’t come until after we’d talked about it in our local paper.

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[VIDEO] The 3 V’s of Virtual Communication

Bloomerang

What I did for them when they finally decided to do it is pull the audio from it and they can make that a podcast and they put it on their website. The attitude you present is assumed to be the attitude of your organization. So your attitude and your demeanor, they change so often throughout the week. Do it as audio.

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

Have Fun - Do Good

Somebody else has got to save the polar bears, I've got to save myself," is sort of the basic attitude. So, we have been working very hard with the City Council, and with community colleges and local labor unions and others to come up with a proposal that will start in September as an actual program called "The Green Jobs Corps."

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