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Preparing Your Nonprofit to Move Beyond the Founder

Blue Avocado

One that, like actual childhood and early adolescence, is full of hazards, and that inevitably must come to an end. For staff, working in a start-up nonprofit is often an exercise in mindreading. In a successful nonprofit, the board’s primary responsibilities include exercising fiduciary duties and supervising the Executive Director.

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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

Get Fully Funded

For the purposes of our exercise, let’s say our story takes place in India. For our fictitious story, the plot is that many children only eat one meal a day — dinner. For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school. Setting: This is where your story happens. Your donation of $7.32

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The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The teacher introduced me as a visitor from America and asked if there the children wanted to ask me any questions. This prompted some amazing questions for children that age anywhere: How many jets did you take to get to India? It was designed for learning – almost like an exhibits at any children’s museum in the US.

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Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

sgEngage

This mapping exercise helps funders meet unmet or underfunded needs and populations. . In New Mexico, the Thornburg Foundation convened a group of funders working in early childhood education and maternal health to advocate for more state support for effective, evidence-based programs. Advantages of Informal Collaborations .

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A Nice Holiday Gift for School Kids Everywhere

Forum One

Santa-belly jokes aside, childhood obesity is an escalating problem in the U.S. One in every three American children is now considered overweight or obese. Seventeen million children live in food insecure households. allows children to create meals by dragging and dropping foods onto their virtual plate.

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A Fine Blog!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A quick search through Flickr resulted in many photos of beautiful, but toothless children, tooth fairy pillows , a pair of tooth fairies from a dental school, notes to the tooth fairy a dog's visit from the tooth fairy and children's notes to the tooth fairy like the one depicted in the photograph above.

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Designing Interactives for Adults: Put Down the Dayglow

Museum 2.0

In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. The common museum knowledge on this issue is that adults are timid, that we have lost some of the wonder, impulsiveness, and active creativity of childhood days. But I don't think that theory holds up.