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Performance Based Funding Institute to Improve Higher Education

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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. You can see more photos on the VisionLink Facebook Performance-Based Funding Album. Two weeks ago VisionLink''s W.

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Seven solutions for nonprofits to effectively collaborate with stakeholders

ASU Lodestar Center

For nonprofit organizations, this means increased program outcomes leading to community awareness, funding from donors or grants, and increased employee morale. Lee Nix is a 2021 graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University.

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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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Going Viral: How One Organization Was Transformed by an Unexpected Windfall

ASU Lodestar Center

Think of all that you could do with those extra funds—give your hard-working staff a well-deserved raise, pay off your organization’s debt, replace your cobbled-together computer systems, serve 10 times the number of clients whom you served last month, even provide the employee training and education that you’ve deferred for the past decade.

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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

This year I facilitated several labs, including several for the Knight Foundation Arts Program to learn about the local arts ecosystem in four cities, including Philadelphia, San Jose, Charlotte, and Macon. In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, California and at SXSW.

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25+ Virtual Fundraising Ideas | A Guide for 2021

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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.” To garner more funds during the event itself, you can encourage further giving through text fundraising and a text-to-donate tool.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too. Fund their work! Charlotte Cooper. England's Charlotte Cooper is remembered for winning five singles titles at Wimbledon and being the first female athlete to become an Olympic Champion in 1900.

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