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Food Bank For New York City: Working to End Hunger since 1983

DipJar

As has been the case with so many non-profit organizations, the pandemic changed and expanded the profile of those needing assistance. “In Summer Hunger , a fundraising effort to raise awareness about childhood hunger during the summer months. Feeding a city of 8.3

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Slacktivism: Can Cartoons Raise Awareness or Just Make Us Feel Good?

NetWits

In an effort to raise awareness for child abuse, thousands of Facebook users changed their profile photos to one of their favorite childhood cartoon characters (full disclosure: mine was Underdog.) With that, profile pics were changed and a general sense of awareness for child abuse spread though Facebook – but for what?

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7- Step Non-Profit Plan to Attract and Keep Corporate Partners

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is not to say that the cause, whether it be access to clean water, cancer research or childhood education, does not carry a compelling moral imperative that is reason enough for the company to get involved. Only then will the company commit the time, creativity and resources required to raise your profile and scale your social impact.

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

NTEN

The timeline or newsfeed, in its quest to present ever growing amounts of information to us, becomes as fleeting as the stock ticker feed in Times Square, and belittles the personal importance of each post, by rendering it in the same small block, with the same small profile icon, in the same small font as everyone else.