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April Cause Awareness: Global Volunteer Month

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If there’s an awareness month all nonprofits should have on their radar, it’s Global Volunteer Month! The first official volunteer awareness week was launched in Canada in 1943 to pay tribute to the many women who contributed to efforts during World War II to collect supplies and help wounded soldiers.

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Nonprofit Marketing: A Complete Guide to Spreading Awareness

Double the Donation

Picture this: you’re scrolling through your social media feed. You see a video of your niece taking her first steps, posts about a good friend recovering from a hard-fought battle against cancer, and pictures from a family friend’s wedding.

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Want To Be a Leader? Get to Know Yourself

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And, without self-awareness, it’s impossible to be a role model for others. Does self-awareness mean you realize you’re a number cruncher first and a communicator second? Although understanding strengths and weaknesses is important, it’s not the whole picture. However, awareness of the distractions can minimize their impact.

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How to Demonstrate ROI to Your Nonprofit Board Members

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In addition to general business practices, your nonprofit must also be able to accurately track the effects any increases or decreases in fundraising expenses might have on the overall financial picture. .

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Start-up Marketing: How To Do It Right

Byte Technology

The results gave us a clear picture of the benefit of both Brand Awareness and Promotional Broadcast campaigns for Flourish. Jackie chose to hold off on the brand awareness campaigns until their clinic was open. At Byte we are ready to guide them into a brand awareness campaign to keep the momentum going.

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Slacktivism: Can Cartoons Raise Awareness or Just Make Us Feel Good?

NetWits

In an effort to raise awareness for child abuse, thousands of Facebook users changed their profile photos to one of their favorite childhood cartoon characters (full disclosure: mine was Underdog.) With that, profile pics were changed and a general sense of awareness for child abuse spread though Facebook – but for what? .&#

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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.