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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

Blue Avocado

In contrast is the middle third, who are typically helpful and service-minded—but with a caveat. This proved to be a wonderful way to share nationally AbilityFirst’s empowerment philosophy. This invaluable third focuses not on what they as individuals want to do but instead asks: “What can I do to help?”

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October Awareness: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Qgiv

The pink ribbon that has become the most widely recognized symbol of breast cancer awareness came about when a 68-year-old California woman named Charlotte Haley, whose sister, daughter, and granddaughter had breast cancer, created peach-colored ribbons to call attention to inadequate funding for breast cancer research. Final thoughts.

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Survey-Backed Insights to Keep Your Nonprofit Ahead of Changing Workplace Trends

Saleforce Nonprofit

Research at the University of California at Irvine found that employees check their email an average of 74 times a day. Strategies like reducing workload and stress levels and offering mindfulness instruction can help, but they treat burnout as an individual condition. Why are people leaving their jobs?

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Purpose at PIMCO | The Power of Partnerships & Knowing Your Why

Connection Cafe

With this in mind, we recently took measures to evolve our community engagement platform, giving people access to a broad set of tools to help them engage and build purpose beyond their day-to-day roles. We work with six organizations committed to the education, employment and empowerment of women and girls across the globe.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. Classtalk (All phones, SMS-based) empowers teachers to communicate with their classes through SMS and email, keeping school subjects and class deadlines at the top of a student's mind.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. Each card is a piece of art in my mind. Connecting personal wisdom to effect positive change is our goal. We hope you will share your voice with the world!

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The Art of Relevance Sneak Peek: Part Ex-Con, Part Farmer, Part Queen

Museum 2.0

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" Doron runs a youth development program called FoodWhat in Santa Cruz County, California. He answers the question on every teen’s mind: “what do I get if I participate in this program?”

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