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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.) If it’s not fun, rewarding, or cool, viral campaigns rarely take off. Did you notice something toony about Facebook last weekend?

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Going Virtual is Not Enough: Reimagining Traditional P2P Walks for Fall 2020 and Beyond

Connection Cafe

In neighborhoods where birthday parades, bear hunts, and makeshift graduations ceremonies have been commonplace, the creation of neighborhood events and gatherings are a fun and appropriate choice for socially distant events. In reimagining their fun run/walk, staff recently announced changes to their annual campaign.

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

The nonprofit lets the impact stand on its own on certain pages – no pictures, very little language, and lots of white space. org combines a lot of the elements we love from the reports above: Fun colors to keep the reader engaged, interactiveness, and a sticky table of contents that follows the reader as they scroll down the page.

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

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Please give so that we can end childhood hunger in India and help these children realize their full potential. Our new playground equipment has turned our backyard into an oasis of fun for our resident kids to play and just be a kid. Pictures and Videos Can be Worth a Thousand Dollars They can also be worth a thousand words.

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Creativity in Education (and Life) Can Change the World

Have Fun - Do Good

Some of my best childhood memories are from going to public grade school. Making friends was hard, but learning was fun. Writing a report on wolves and taking a picture with a Polaroid of a wolf in a book so it would look like the wolf was in my backyard (: Being the lead in the school play, Really Rose.

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8 Creative Fundraising Ideas to Advance Your Mission

Connection Cafe

Louie’s Kids is a nonprofit that fights childhood obesity and promotes family wellness. . People naturally look at pictures before reading text. Comparative pictures (before and after) work well to achieve this. They generated awareness, strengthened their brand and are having fun! Take a look by clicking here.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a.

ASU Lodestar Center

She was an example for me throughout my childhood, bringing me along as she volunteered at soup kitchens, with the LDS cannery, and in the Scouts. Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona. Picture This: A Look Back at This Year's Spring Fo. Fear not, nonprofit professionals!