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5 Strategies To Nurture Active Board Engagement

Bloomerang

The awards given out at this event really emphasize this way of showing appreciation. When board members get their awards, the words spoken to honor them show genuine appreciation and celebrate all their hard work. Think about organizing board retreats , workshops, or fun team-building events.

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Convio 2008 Innovator Awards - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Day 2: Certificates Awarded To Senior Staff Attendees. Make It Fun, Celebrate. I believe strongly that professional learning can be fun and it can be more effective that way. We also gave awards, certificates, and chocolates as well as surprise and humor to keep everyone involved.

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Make a Statement: Defining Your Nonprofit Mission and Vision Statements 

Qgiv

You’ll see how much fun it can be to completely transform the feel of your statement using the power of the present continuous tense ! leadership, collaboration, empowerment). Let’s take a short detour back to our school days, specifically English class, and the lessons on verb tense. Compile these into a list, eliminating duplicates.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

Have Fun - Do Good

The other thing is that a lot of inner cities are part of empowerment zones or enterprise zones where companies that are at a certain scale and profitable can benefit from tax credits, both from the payroll side, if you hire from the inner city, but also if you locate in the enterprise zones.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

If your angle is using this training as an outlet for local empowerment and development, then you very much want to bring in mentorship. We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors. We are doing a media and speaking tour (November, 8-20) of three of our award winning women citizen journalists.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

Melinda: One of the interesting things about working within women's empowerment as it relates to environmental sustainability is I've really learned the ways that we talk about environmentalism is as this siloed issue. Britt: What drives you to do this work rather than other work?

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