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

sgEngage

When these foundations work together, even briefly, they can leverage these assets to amplify each other’s efforts and meet priority needs that fit their community’s particular culture and environment. . In one community in Indiana, three foundations teamed up to design a training program for local nonprofit leaders and staff.

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8 Creative Fundraising Ideas to Advance Your Mission

Connection Cafe

Engage your donors through storytelling by sharing how you are utilizing their money. Louie’s Kids is a nonprofit that fights childhood obesity and promotes family wellness. . This environment can increase visibility and lead to new possibilities. donation cards are an effective, easily distributed piece of collateral.

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

NTEN

I keep on telling my story of how I moved between the East and West, between physical environments (architecture, urban design) and virtual (web and mobile development and strategy), between technology and the humanities. Historians can narrate stories of a city’s development or you can tell your own story of fond childhood memories.

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

Have Fun - Do Good

We also have Ernest Callenbach , who wrote the first book on the environment, Ecotopia. We have Angus Wright , who does books about the political environment in Brazil and saving the rainforest for the world. The environment? We're tired of hearing people overcoming their horrible childhood, because it's too much.

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10 Organizations Leading The Way This Mental Health Awareness Month

Everyaction

The primary goal of PEP’s integrated special education and mental health services is to enable children and youth to succeed in the least restrictive environment, ideally their own school district. Aside from their successful healthcare programs, the thing that really stands out about Uplift Family Service’s website is its storytelling.

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5 Tips And Tactics To Become A Master Nonprofit Wordsmith

Bloomerang

Our distaste for writing followed us into adulthood because we still suffer from the same writing inadequacies we had in childhood. Your job is to dis­cover ways to create an easy-going environment that encourages your entire staff to become better writers. We suffer writer’s block. We struggle to organize thoughts.

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