Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

While these stats show that this national day of giving has struck a chord in people internationally, it’s the stories from #GivingTuesday that truly inspire us. Camp Kesem empowers college students across the United States to create a free, life-changing one-week summer camp experience for children affected by a parent’s cancer.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

Montana is the first state in the United States to implement a TikTok ban and Congress is actively exploring a national ban. Countless receptions were hosted across the city for affinity groups and chapters. Lastly, social media platforms are facing increased scrutiny and regulation.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 23, 2020

Today’s Q&A is with Barbara Newhouse, CEO of The Children’s Heart Foundation , where she is using her experience and lessons learned to create strengths from organizational challenges and rebuild a brand that staff, board, supporters, and volunteers can trust. Q: What led you to working in the nonprofit sector?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 24, 2020

Combine children being out of school and people working from home or being out of work with a fervent global curiosity, and we have a recipe for unprecedented levels of screen time and social media usage. One of the JDRF Southern Florida Chapter most watched videos from their virtual walk was bloopers! .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. The Better Business Bureau also reviews national charities through its BBB Wise Giving Alliance program. If you are a national charity, you can also request to be reviewed on this website.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

To find professionals who are interested in sharing their time and skills with your organization, reach out to local chapters of professional organizations like the National Association of Realtors or the National Association of Female Executives. Make an effort to get to know your volunteers as people.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Prior to joining the Eagles in 2000, Julie worked in the television and business affairs department at the National Hockey League in New York. She is a nationally-recognized master storyteller and fundraising culture change expert helping nonprofit organizations raise nearly $300 million dollars from individual donors. And counting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

It takes time, but does show results as the comments on the original Mashable post seem to indicate: Two years ago The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada established a presence on Facebook and incorporated guidelines for our Chapters to establish their local groups. I used a cli.gs link [link] so I could track traffic to the link.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2015

Fast Company's definitions for "innovative" ranges from hyperbole used unironically ("For creating magic with minutiae" — Apple), to relatively reasonable ("For selling good, cheap food to children who need it the most" — Revolution Foods). Why I Disagree with Fast Company's List.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

826 National is a family of seven nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing. Each chapter offers drop-in tutoring, field trips, workshops, and in-schools programs -- all free of charge -- for children, classes, and schools with particular interests or particular needs.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Symantec has made corporate grants to the National Center for Women & Information Technology and Vital Voices. Their support will help Room to Read extend its operations into new parts of India and reach over 20,000 children. In some parts of the world, enrollment of women in computer science programs is even declining.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Coincidentally, the day we published Sands post, Allison Silberberg sent me chapters from her new book Visionaries In Our Midst , a collection of essays that profiles ordinary people who saw an unmet social need in their community and had the guts to “take action&# and go out do something about it. It’s been torn down since then.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

Also our network of informal national chapters are hosted in WordPress. An example is the video of 15,000 school children in Adidas Aba rallying for "strong action and bold leadership on the climate crisis.“ We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. An example is 350 Mexico.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The National Directory of Corporate Giving is a print directory for finding funding from corporations, that provides portraits of approximately 3,000 corporate foundations and 1,000 direct giving programs with essential information such as guidelines, priorities, financial data, and recent grants awarded. They usually have local chapters.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

Also our network of informal national chapters are hosted in WordPress. An example is the video of 15,000 school children in Adidas Aba rallying for "strong action and bold leadership on the climate crisis.“ We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. An example is 350 Mexico.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Black Youth Project — BYP has various local chapters. NAACP + NAACP Legal Defense Fund —The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization formed as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. Find yours here. Young, Black, & Lit. Attend Events .

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

For example, they partnered with groups like Focus the Nation and 1Sky so that they could share a backend database ensuring that they were then able to share calls to action and garner far more numbers together than as competitors. There’s no limit to either. It instantly becomes less about numbers and more about impact.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

This week, we look at Chapter 5 of Elaine Gurian's book Civilizing Museums , Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about museum definitions in two parts. National museums have huge reach and ability to represent and celebrate a nation but are decried as tightly-controlled beauracratic machines.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 11, 2022

Special Olympics is the world’s largest program for sports training and athletic competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, inspiring greatness in more than 5 million athletes in 172 nations worldwide.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

This foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. They support activities and movements that are global or national in scope. Areas served: US.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

This foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. They support activities and movements that are global or national in scope. Areas served: US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2011

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). If you take a look at Bruce Lesley’s Twitter stream , you will see that he is curating information on public policies impacting children.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And she also serves on her home chapter of AFP which we always we appreciate. And foundations this 19% includes both, you know, national foundations and family foundations. It might be harder if you’re a national organization. And, dang, you’re busy and you’re a super-smart person.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So here’s what the rest of the nation says. . What is it like if we expand that to the whole nation or the whole globe? But still, it’s going back to that foundation to say, we all believe in, you know, we want the best for our children. We’ve got almost 100% participation and it looks like it’s a tie.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

For example, Ginna, the Executive Director of the nonprofit Pura Vida Partners , encourages Pura Vida supporters to create a giving circle where everyone comes together to drink Pura Vida coffee and donate $35 each towards scholarships for children living in coffee growing communities. BB: What are your future goals for Dining for Women?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Every week I get to go in and read with the same two children for a half an hour each in the school library. Today, 826 has chapters in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Michigan, and Boston. You can find more information about the various chapters and how to volunteer with them at www.826national.org. Be flexible.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

Next week, we'll conclude by talking about opportunities for institutional change with chapter 8, "Turning the Ocean Liner Slowly." But today, a conversation about the often sticky world of cultural interpretation with chapter 20, "A Jew Among Indians" How working outside of one's culture works." an "uncharted adventure."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Follow and study the National Wildlife Federation , Humane Society of the United States, Human Rights Campaign , Greenpeace , and the American Red Cross. Online Fundraising. ? Pinterest. ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Follow and study the National Wildlife Federation , Humane Society of the United States, Human Rights Campaign , Greenpeace , and the American Red Cross. Online Fundraising.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe. It was about woman entrepreneurs who were sending their children to school with the money they earned, even though they were living themselves on a dollar a day. And, their weapon is poetry. PG: My website!

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