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How To Write A Great Donation Receipt For Your Nonprofit

CauseVox

Physical and emotional challenges tend to diminish, and a sense of greater independence increases. As you may know, past LPEF grants have funded essential programs like PE and Library services as well as enrichment programs like science, art, and music to all students at Loma and CT English schools. Our tax ID number is xx-xxxxxxx.

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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And when the idea of a peer-to-peer ebook library came to me, it was George who I went to with the idea. And second, Donna McNear, the itinerant teacher of the visually impaired from Minnesota, who kept telling me that I had to go to Washington and talk to the Department of Education. Washington? We hope you’ll join us on this journey.

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PCs for People Brings More Great Refurbished Computers to Nonprofits through TechSoup

Tech Soup

PCs for People is a large nonprofit refurbishment program headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The goal is to receive relatively recent vintage, retired commercial IT equipment from companies and government agencies in Minnesota. PCs for People, as a leader in U.S. Here is its story. Humble Beginnings. Image 2: Casey Sorensen.

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Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

Museum 2.0

The challenge is to figure out the best way to share that playbook. The First Wave includes 6 museums, 5 performing arts organizations, 3 public libraries, 3 parks, and 3 community centers. We want to share the methods and tools that make it work. Not as a prescriptive recipe, but as a pattern. We explored opening a training center.

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Leading the Participant

Museum 2.0

Last month, the radio show This American Life ran a fascinating episode called " Kid Politics ," which starts with a long segment about the Air Force One Discovery Center immersive experience at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. It's disingenuous--and makes for a lopsided role playing experience--if there's only really one path to take.

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Minnesota Open Idea: Crowdsourcing Contest For Social Change Done Right

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Minnesota Open Idea is an example of an online social good contest that works. In this interview, Jennifer Ford Reedy , VP for Strategy and Knowledge Management, at the Minnesota Community Foundation shares the how they designed this online social good contest for success.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. The Minnesota History Center team solicited visitor nominations for exhibition topics and then built an exhibition out of those contributions.

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