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Performance Based Funding Institute to Improve Higher Education

VisionLink

Douglas Zimmerman and Lois Ann Porter traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina to organize the Performance-Based Funding Institute VisionLink produced for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. A Self-Assessment Sheet used by attending community colleges at the PBF Institute. Ann Duffy, Facilitator, Education First.

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Seven solutions for nonprofits to effectively collaborate with stakeholders

ASU Lodestar Center

Why should a nonprofit collaborate with their community or stakeholders? For nonprofit organizations, this means increased program outcomes leading to community awareness, funding from donors or grants, and increased employee morale. By listening to the community and responding to their needs, nonprofits can garner trust.

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October Awareness: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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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. The Susan G.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2016, I completed my work as facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. It is also a pivotal year for many community foundations as they consider whether to ramp up or wind down giving day initiatives in their communities.

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25+ Virtual Fundraising Ideas | A Guide for 2021

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Supporters can simply click on them to “buy” them, and then your organization will send them to the necessary community. Their solution was a partnership with Transylvania University where they used one of its buildings for housing. UrbanPromise Charlotte implemented a program during the pandemic called “Family Meetings.”

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too. Fund their work! But her experience and those of the residents in her community inspired her greatest work, A Raisin in the Sun , the first play written by an African American to be produced on Broadway.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2014 - The Green Issue

Tech Soup

After someone reports a dumpsite, it sets in motion a community effort to deal with the problem. The project is funded by municipalities and waste management companies who pay a monthly fee for real time data in special format. Wood Stove image courtesy of Charlotte Boulton Photography and Proyecto Mirador. Image credits.

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