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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

Mission: Under the Laughs for the Troops umbrella, you will find many other great programs to help our veterans, increase awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), raise funds, and recruit volunteers. Impacting: Mental health. Headquarters in: Riverview, FL. Impacting: Mental health.

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Configuring QuickBooks for Use in a Nonprofit: Planning and Implementation

Tech Soup

Working with nonprofits for over 25 years has made it very clear (to me at least) that the "right brain" is dominant in most nonprofit organizations. Not who funds us - but what service or product do we provide or produce - what do we do ?). How is the labor distributed to each account, program, and funding source?

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Don’t Bring Your Phone in the Shower

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He spoke about creativity and what psychologists and brain scientists are learning about it. I wont’t try to summarize the entire talk here, but the most important takeaways for me as a funded were: 1. We have joked internally that Durfee’s tagline should be: Funding Failure Since 1960. Seek outsider knowledge.

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The New and The Unknown

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That’s the kind of ‘new’ funders like to fund. I overheard comments like: “my brain is in overdrive,” “I can’t wait to try this in my work,” and “I wish the conference were longer.” The Network Funders meeting this week crackled with excitement. Funders were fired up. So maybe this idea of network thinking isn’t really ‘new.’

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start! In Education.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. We deliver philanthropic donors exciting returns on their investments (i.e.,

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Your Guide to Hiring Staff for Your Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Create a work environment where everyone can thrive. It might be hard to look at these figures and to wrap your brain around how much money you need to raise to employ the staff you need. Create a Comfortable, Inspiring Work Environment Think about the jobs you had in the past. It’s a lot to take on! 20% a year?

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