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Minnesota Open Idea: Crowdsourcing Contest For Social Change Done Right

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, the community foundation finished its first Minnesota Open Idea contest to fund the best idea to address the childhood obesity issue. Why did you pick the childhood obesity issue for the challenge? They built an inner circle of orgs that we called “the strategy cabinet” to be the heart of the outreach effort.

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Report Back from the Do Good Data Conference 2015

NTEN

org , was such a great speaker that I forgot to take notes. org blog a lot. They are able to compare early childhood education with dental care, but also a program that proposes deep intervention for a small population with a program that proposes smaller involvement with a larger population. Fascinating.

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[VIDEO] Why You Should Ditch The Way You’ve Been Doing Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

And a lot of the research is market research, is, you know, evaluating our constituents and our stakeholders. And what was happening here was when we were in that traditional family dynamic seat, he was bringing all of his childhood trauma around his own father into the car with us, and that’s what was causing the upsets. .

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