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In conversation: using data and education to advance racial equity at MEASURE

Candid

On March 13, 2022, Meme Styles, president and founder of MEASURE , joined Candid CEO Ann Mei on the stage at SXSW for their talk: Using Data to Advance Racial Equity ( available to watch now on YouTube ). Candid's team reached out to Meme recently to learn more about the work MEASURE is doing in Austin, TX.

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Give Miami Day raises record $5.2 million for nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Twenty-four prizes were awarded to nonprofits that hit key milestones throughout the day, such as the first gift received and receiving gifts from the most countries. Using more visuals, such as memes, also helped. Pre-event media coverage was a major part of energizing people to give.

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The Heart and Soul of Lean Impact: A/B Testing Experiments and Validated Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The winners of the awards were Black Girls Code and Taroworks But as I listened to the presentations from the pitch speakers — the one thing they were all experts at doing was applying validated learning which is a key principle of the lean start up as Erie Ries explained to me: The point is that you need to go lean and fast. .”

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How to Pick the Right Fundraiser for Your New Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

A meme got my attention recently on Facebook. After judges award prizes for the best pies, you can have a pie-eating contest. After prizes are awarded, sell everything in a bake-sale format or maybe incorporate a Cake Walk. Award prizes for the cutest dog and the best costume. A Scholastic Book Fair for grownups.”

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Five Things I Would Like to Know About You

Have Fun - Do Good

A week or so ago Jory Des Jardins of Pause tagged me for the meme that is going around, Five Things You Don't Know About Me. We took it to a state competition, and I won an award for my performance. meme five I took theater classes my first year at Vassar College, but once I became a Sociology major, I stopped. Enough about me.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Bloggers Who Create Community Award. Let the Change Blogging Meme Hit The Road. Calling on the Twitterverse and Connie Reece Answers First. $10 10 will help a Cambodian Youngster Get A Better Life. Why Nhung Sun, A Cambodian Blogger, Supports The Sharing Foundation. New Year's Resolution: Do Something About That Pile of E-Waste.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

These can be formatted as zoom backgrounds, sharable tiles/images/memes online, a Facebook cover image, or something small they can place in their electronic signature. Plaque or award. Name an award after them. These can be framed, or laminated, and turned into a bookmark, placemat, or shrunk to be coasters.

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