EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is the only national conference expressly designed to prepare 400+ college students for a career in the social sector. We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Impact National Conference / Amherst, MA / Less than $200.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2006

The REAL hot 100 is a list featuring young women from around the country who are breaking barriers, fighting stereotypes, and making a difference in their communities or the nation. Rachel can teach you how to make biodiesel, how to convert your car to run on straight vegetable oil, and how to fix your car too.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

I want to highlight a blog that I've been reading for a while, the Tutor Mentor Connection blog written by Daniel Bassill out of Chicago, Illinois. This is the neighborhood that shocked the nation in 1992 when 7-year old Dandrell Davis was shot and killed while walking to school.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

Consider “National” days that relate to your mission, organization anniversaries, and other important dates that you might use. For instance, ask your peer-to-peer volunteers if they have any expertise that they’d like to share and teach through a community class. BONUS – See this idea in action!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 27, 2018

Otherwise, the user will probably default to the national lung cancer charity.). Behavioral economics teaches us how humans behave—especially how we behave irrationally. Saturday Place, a Chicago-based nonprofit for children, does this well: With anchoring, the key is to let the biggest number lead. So they search Google.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Chicago Foundation for Women. Areas served: Baltimore, Chicago, Hawai?i, Chicago Foundation For Women. They offer grants that range from $15,000 to $150,000 and support organizations within the Chicago metropolitan area (Cook, DuPage, Lake, Kane, McHenry, and Will counties). Areas served: Chicago metropolitan area.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 104

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Chicago Foundation for Women. Areas served: Baltimore, Chicago, Hawai?i, Chicago Foundation For Women. They offer grants that range from $15,000 to $150,000 and support organizations within the Chicago metropolitan area (Cook, DuPage, Lake, Kane, McHenry, and Will counties). Areas served: Chicago metropolitan area.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 79

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

I am acutely aware, however, that most museum staff don’t have time to go looking in other sectors for good ideas that might shake up their thinking, especially stretched as thin as they are by the national financial crisis. The Center is reaching outside the field to begin making such connections.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

But don’t do that right now because Sherry QT is joining us from beautiful Chicago, the city of my birth. Again, it’s so simple, but I was like, “Oh, that’s actually the methodology I teach in fundraising.” How’s it going, Sherry? You doing okay? . Sherry: I’m doing awesome over here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day. For teaching and learning. Chicago Crime Maps; Another googlemap mashup with crime statistics. Can you find more?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2015

Note from Beth: I met Matthew Scharpnick, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Elefint Designs, a strategic design studio that works with good causes, at the Data for Good Conference in Chicago. People like to find pieces of data that teach them something new. One area that he works on is data visualization for nonprofits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Today, 826 has chapters in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Michigan, and Boston. Organizations like these teach everything from sports, to science, to the arts, to girl empowerment. Users are encouraged to find volunteer opportunities, and to post stories about their volunteer experiences on the site. 826national.org.

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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. Right at the end of that period, I also was teaching. And second, I was exhausted from having continued to do consulting and teaching at the same time. And, their weapon is poetry.

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