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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

Bloomerang

Step 1: Understand story structure. Effective stories are told in a three-act structure. All well-crafted stories fit a three-act story structure. Since childhood, we have been taught to expect a certain structure for stories to follow. As with the end of the year, the end of life is often a time for reflection.

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Michelle’s RiseUP Fellowship Experience: RiseUP Fellow to Full Time Employee

Media Cause

But, it’s time to face the music for the opportunity to share what, in short, as cliche as it sounds, has changed the trajectory of my career, and life. Due to family circumstances and life situations, I started a small business in high school to pay the bills. I was the self-taught applicant that didn’t have a degree. .

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Preparing Your Nonprofit to Move Beyond the Founder

Blue Avocado

Stepping away is part of the nonprofit circle of life. It is a stage of development in the nonprofit life cycle. One that, like actual childhood and early adolescence, is full of hazards, and that inevitably must come to an end. Over the years, I have worked with many founder-led (or until-recently-founder-led) organizations.

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UNICEF Shares How You Can Support India Today Amidst the COVID-19 Surge

Saleforce Nonprofit

Indirectly, many children’s lives are impacted as more households get pushed into poverty, schools are closed, and strained health systems and by disruptions to life-saving health care like immunizations. This includes restarting routine childhood vaccines and getting children back to learning. Donate to UNICEF.

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5 Tips And Tactics To Become A Master Nonprofit Wordsmith

Bloomerang

Writing is a skill learned early in life, and most of us disliked writing and grammar classes as much as we disliked eating vegetables. Our distaste for writing followed us into adulthood because we still suffer from the same writing inadequacies we had in childhood. We suffer writer’s block. We struggle to organize thoughts.

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Get on the Bus: How Mass Transit Design Affects Participatory Potential

Museum 2.0

We have childhood memories of social bus rides. If people have childhood memories of trains, they more likely recall the scenery, the long trip, the feel of moving along the tracks. This relates to the frequent discussion on this blog of museums as destinations versus places in the path of daily life. We see it on TV.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Despite her family's affluence, Lorraine Hansberry's childhood in Chicago during the 1930s was not without hardship, discrimination, and segregation. EMILY's List , She Should Run , and Emerge America are working to empower women from all walks of life to run for office and fight for more representative government - they've got our vote!

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