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Women’s History Month: 11 Nonprofits That Are Advocating For Female Empowerment

Kindful

Their missions are varied—from gender equity in the music industry to helping those affected by incarceration and addiction—but their causes are all worthy of your time and support. Mission: Helping Women Period is committed to supplying menstrual health products to people that menstruate who are either homeless or low-income.

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Are Online Vote-for-Me Contests A Good Idea?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her main objection to "vote me contests" is that it pits one amazing cause against another, perpetuating the scarcity mentality that lives in the hope of a pot of gold. She also feels that contests have too much of a myopic focus on channeling dollars or click actions rather than engaging people's hearts and minds and souls. .

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We turned on CNN and watched together as scenes from New Jersey and New York flashed across the screen. Hurricane Sandy caused over 100 deaths in 10 states and left more people in the dark than any other storm in United States history. The homeless population in the city doubled to 80,000.

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Has Your Organization Thought Through its Social Media Policy?

NTEN

Your transitional housing program for homeless families always needs activities for children. A Federal case in New Jersey questions whether comments made by employees about their employer on a private site outside the office can be constituted as defamation. It is caught during an internal audit.

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The Bold, Focused Ideas of Breakthrough Nonprofit Brands: Book Giveaway Winners Announced

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A crisp brand meaning should be the filter for decision making internally as well as externally, especially regarding the building of community around the organization’s cause, partnerships, communications and revenue generation. It’s got to be an invitation to join a cause and a movement.”. SafeAmerica Foundation , Bill Soule.