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April Cause Awareness: Global Volunteer Month

Qgiv

If there’s an awareness month all nonprofits should have on their radar, it’s Global Volunteer Month! While you should be showing your volunteers love all year round, starting April 1st, Global Volunteer Month gives you the opportunity to shower your volunteers with a little bit of extra love.

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Project AWARE Dives Deep Into Ocean Data, Turning Scuba Divers into Citizen Scientists

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Project AWARE Goes Deep on Engagement, Turning Scuba Divers into Citizen Scientists – guest post by Darren Barefoot. An interactive map launched by the non-profit Project AWARE visualizes nearly three years of ongoing reporting by a network of scuba divers who remove marine debris from the world’s ocean.

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3 Ways to Support Autistic Employees in the Workplace

Saleforce Nonprofit

For the second year in a row, we’re still celebrating Autism Awareness Month during a global pandemic. Given the challenges of COVID-19 restrictions, it is even more important for us this year to ensure that we are spreading more awareness, understanding, and acceptance of autism and neurodiversity.

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Demographics via Candid: A data-driven approach to encourage equitable funding practices

Candid

In response to the simultaneous global pandemic and racial equity movement, philanthropy committed to act with urgency to better support nonprofit partners, as well as the people and communities hit hardest by the impacts of these dual events. Pledges were made to reduce barriers, shift power, and engage in more equitable funding practices.

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How the Head of UNDP Uses Twitter To Engage Around Development Policy Goals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

UNDP’s network links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach these Goals. Tweet behind the scene pictures, no handshakes please pic.twitter.com/SJB3MXDmGR #TwitterTips — Twiplomacy (@Twiplomacy) January 1, 2014. . — Caleb Tiller (@CMTiller) January 14, 2014.

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Five Tips for Nonprofits to Avoid Virtual Fatigue

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Hyper self-awareness occurs when we are forced to view our own faces while we are interacting with others. My absolute favorite, which comes from Katy Grennier, DSIL Global , is the dance off that can be done on a video conference platform. We are not used to conversations with another person while we are staring in a mirror.

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6 Ways to Take Action in the Next Week to Celebrate Earth Day

EveryAction

Earth Day is this Saturday and there's so much you can do to defend, fund, and educate yourself on the critical environmental issues we face as a global population - here are six to get you started. Show up for science. Need plans for the weekend? Take a hike. Can't make a march? Don't have time to plan a national park adventure?

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