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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

Full disclosure: This is from our founder George, who also co-founded PowerPoetry.org , the largest teen poetry platform in the US. No cumbersome download required, this report knows its audience by calling out important impact efforts without bogging down the casual user with superfluous detail and text. Donate Life America.

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The CNN Lesson: There Is No Hiding on The Real-Time Web

Care2

While CNN is in the business of researching and reporting on the news and Komen is in the business of raising money for breast cancer research, neither of them understands the human side of operating in a multichannel world where people are engaging with you 24/7. Be Human: Say “I’m Sorry” All organizations mess up.

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34 Clever Summer Fundraising Ideas

Whole Whale

Email system like Mailchimp or Emma to message a larger audience and collect attendee information. Take a look at how HikeFor.com is helping Donate Life America raise funds. Take a page from the Lung Cancer Foundation of America’s #CatsAgainstLungCancer campaign and pull in your cats to talk about you c(l)ause.

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Live Blog Post from MacArthur Foundation: Virtual World Event on Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy. " Linden: Second Life is a world being built by the people in it. The John D.

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Where are the twenty-something or GEN-Y Bloggers Who Are Writing About Social Change and Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I keep hearing from nonprofits that one of the reasons they want to incorporate a social networking or media strategy is to reach a younger audience. The Stupid Cancer Blog is written by Matthew Zachary who founded the social enterprise I'm Too Young for This." Even though I'm more like twenty-something times 2.5, Why did I go?

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Book Club Part 3b: Talking Institutional Change with Elaine Gurian

Museum 2.0

And they tend to be talking about preservation first, audience second, or now, equal roles. If you get diagnosed with cancer you’re going home to look it up. One person commented about how he loved growing up in DC as a teen and generally using the Smithsonian as a playground.

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

Museum 2.0

As part of the session, Tom led live drawing ( click for high-res image ), and we invited the audience to add their own “can’t dos” to a large map of things that are “safe,” “iffy,” and “no way”--more on that later. Focusing on youth audiences can lead to heavy and sometimes inappropriate self-censorship. The audio starts noisy.

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