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A Hearty Congratulations to TechSoup Members Winning Google Impact Challenge Awards

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The finalists are an impressive roster of charities from diverse fields doing great work in nonprofit technology. Students develop and run a business, gain confidence, academic support, and mentorship. Pogo Park is transforming three neglected parks in Richmond California into magical play spaces for 8,000 at-risk children.

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TechSoup Honors Unsung Heroes

Tech Soup

Founded in 1999, Corazon Ministries is a faith-based charity that operates in the heart of downtown San Antonio, serving its homeless and marginalized neighbors. Many describe homelessness as being voiceless and invisible. We have all seen huge programs with complicated processes to end homelessness.

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

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Tutor students so they can reach their potential in school? Think about your audience as someone who doesn’t know anything about food insecurity, homelessness, first generation college students, or animal abuse. If you want to help first generation college students, how do you want to help them? Feed people?

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10 Questions You Can Ask Major Donors to Build the Relationship

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Be clear about your goal for the meeting, whether that’s to learn the top 3 charities they support or what they think about your new program or something else. Many will say their children are their proudest accomplishment. Some donors are drawn to just one cause area, such as homelessness or food insecurity.

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Reader Appreciation Day: Beth's Big Give - Congrats to Epic Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Epic Change is the lucky winner of my Reader Appreciation Day Charity Giveaway (Beth's Big Give!). Not For Sale Campaign: 27 million people in slavery worldwide today, over 50% of them children. Education And More : Has a mission to help educate the children and reduce poverty in Guatemala. Here is more about their approach.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

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Are they wanting to fund children’s programs? So, for example, if I provide an after-school program, I just use that a lot because I ran an after-school program for over a decade, but if I’m delivering academic programs, then I’m going to be looking at the number of students served. And for a good reason.

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“Tis the Season to be Stupid.”

Connection Cafe

Shelly Banjo with the Wall Street Journal wrote an article for today’s edition with that title, to bring attention to t he financial mistakes people make when giving to charities—and how to avoid them. We often carry socks filled with water and energy bars to give to the homeless on Austin’s streets.