sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Understanding Community Leadership Community leadership involves actively engaging with local stakeholders, identifying shared goals, and working collaboratively towards achieving them. In this blog post, we will explore the concept of community leadership in foundations and discuss how they can support their grantees beyond the dollar.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 26, 2013

As local as possible, relating to the community, city or state where your program is located. For example, I recently wrote a grant that addressed childhood obesity. In my example, it has been well established that childhood obesity is a problem; there isn’t a need to belabor that point or include a bunch of data to support that.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Our first cohort of Community Fellows came together last week to dig into the topic, specifically investigating: How might we support food banks and food suppliers in anticipating people’s needs locally to provide nutritious meals with dignity? “ Jennifer Thall. Emilio Tavarez.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

The Emeril Lagasse Foundation provides grants related to nutrition and culinary education, life skills development, childhood hunger, and arts education. Our grants are awarded to schools, local music programs, and national music programs.”. Areas served: US. Emeril Lagasse Foundation. Guitar Center. Areas served: US. Areas served: US.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The lessons I learned from Lost Childhoods are at the heart of the OF/BY/FOR ALL project we're building now. Through Lost Childhoods , we saw youth step into their power. We hope it's a useful set of recipes you can riff off of to co-create your own project on a local issue that matters to you.

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Qgiv

MARCH 1, 2023

They harness the power of collective giving to fund grants for local programs who work to support women like the YWCA, Girl Scouts, and various domestic violence coalitions.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 29, 2020

The V Foundation empowers cancer research by funding at prominent cancer centers across the nation, whereas Vs. Cancer helps athletes to fund local pediatric oncology programs and childhood cancer research. The reputation of the former organization validates Vs. Cancer’s efforts.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Our focus areas are: early childhood learning, behavioral health, obesity, and transportation. Transportation: MHP has a long-standing partnership with a local transport system, ShelbyGo. Obesity: MHP recently opened a Community Health & Wellness Center which houses a brand-new YMCA and MHP Lifestyle Medicine Practice.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 12, 2022

Jude drive the survival rate of childhood cancer patients from 20% to 80% since the hospital was founded in 1962 — how’s that for impact? With such passionate constituents, Bodell and her team are taking time to uncover local grassroots innovation coming from their community. . — David Jacques, CIO, ALSAC.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2021

We support children and their families from pregnancy to early childhood through to adolescence, and many live in some of the world’s most rural, vulnerable, and remote communities. Once they’ve passed the quality control check, they’re stored in cold rooms as they await the next phase of their journey to local health centres.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

They were off-site for the first time in years, holding a special study session sparked by an exhibition about foster youth, Lost Childhoods. The supervisors toured the exhibition with some of the 100+ local partners who helped create it. It happened because two of our Lost Childhood partners urged it into being.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

Improving childhood nutrition. Of course, we’d have to focus on local language content. Old-fashioned cooking methods kill millions each year. Cooking a meal shouldn’t be fatal: clean-burning stoves, as well as clean fuels and energy all help combat this problem. The rural blind are truly among the poorest of the poor in the world.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2020

kids with autism) or get together with your team to celebrate locally while maintaining safe social distancing recommendations.”. Canadian Cancer Society’s Neon Night for Childhood Cancer: Neon Night for Childhood Cancer is a non-competitive fun run/walk that takes place at night.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2021

Can you talk about how you were able to pivot the Foundation’s focus to meet the immediate and ongoing needs of local organizations due to the pandemic while also maintaining a focus on your longer-term goals and mission? Q: You recently announced a new 10-year, $10 million commitment to fight for racial equity and social justice locally.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The second part is the public—people who are passionate about supporting local makers and consuming hand crafted goods over mass produced items. Their format is relatively simple: have a retail space where local goods can be sold (all profits go to the creators) and a space where creatives can come to work and bump elbows with each other.

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Culture Learning Childhood Local 55

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 26, 2013

In celebration of the name change, New Pathways for Youth hosted a block party for the community where local phoenix public figures spoke in support of the new branding. While working for Teach for America, Alex will be pursuing his master of arts degree in early childhood education at Loyola Marymount University.

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Research Phoenix Los Angeles Childhood 84

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Over the next 10 months, this diverse group of up-and-coming leaders will serve full-time at local nonprofit organizations and learn the skills to start careers in the nonprofit sector. At the beginning of September, they started CORE Training, the first step on a life-changing journey.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2020

For example, a nonprofit raising funds for childhood cancer research may see that the majority of its donors are mothers under 40 years old. In her spare time she enjoys spending time outdoors, going to Disneyland and fostering kittens for her local animal shelter.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

Birgit interviewed Misty on the challenges she faced throughout her childhood, and her journey to become the first African American Female Principal Dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. Through the support of her local Boys and Girls Club, she found a safe haven and a dance class which ignited the start of her career.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

How do you decide that an organization's mission to provide help for Jewish families dealing with Autism has more or less value than an organization that fights a rare childhood disease or takes care of animals? That a local organization is more deserving than a national one?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2016

The previous UN Millennium Development Goals addressed eradicating poverty and hunger, combatting diseases, promoting maternal and childhood health, increasing primary education, and sustaining the environment. Understanding local context is the first step. The Huge Progress We've Made So Far. There were eight goals. In 1990, 1.9

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The local Catholic Church, St. Photo: This is a page from a scrapbook about growing up in Mystic that my childhood friend, Jill, made for me when I moved to California. I don''t usually share personal stories here on Have Fun, Do Good, and I''m not sure where this is going, but I''m giving it a whirl. To be continued.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Some of my best childhood memories are from going to public grade school. My only connection with education at the moment is as a " reading partner " volunteer with two girls for an hour each week at my local public school. Making friends was hard, but learning was fun. I can't bear to see Waiting for Superman.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Even though there aren’t as many people today reading actual newspapers or watching the 6 o’clock news these days, your local media still reaches a large audience of people in your community who need to know about your nonprofit’s work. The key to getting your nonprofit’s story in the news is building relationships with local journalists.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

How do you decide that an organization's mission to provide help for Jewish families dealing with Autism has more or less value than an organization that fights a rare childhood disease or takes care of animals? That a local organization is more deserving than a national one?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2021

Whether you’re a major medical research nonprofit or a local nonprofit community clinic, the work you do matters. ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation hosted a raffle sub-event to raise additional funds. Consider how you can get the word out to your local audience. Sub-events. Then, host a marketing campaign to reach them.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In addition to organizing NetSquared events on topics such as how to get going with website tools like WordPress and Google Analytics, and creating a Salesforce database, Margaux helped organize Orlando Gives, in which six local nonprofit organizations got together to create a culture of giving in their city. Find your local NetSquared group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

The American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) is currently selling a t-shirt with the names of 3,400 children and teens who have fought or are still fighting childhood cancer. With $300 million in annual revenues, CustomInk is eager to extend its reach into the charity apparel space.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Elsbeth Pollack is a Program Manager for Public Allies Arizona (PAAZ) , an AmeriCorps program that engages service-minded young individuals in 10-months of paid leadership training, apprenticeships, and service opportunities in collaboration with local nonprofit partner organizations.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Brandon made his next major foray into crowdfunding a few months later with an appeal to support childhood cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Both types of efforts, local and global, are strong symbols of a changing world. He raised over $760,000 by appealing to his worldwide following.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2011

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. A few months ago, I was shopping at the local grocery market, wearing my AmeriCorps sweatshirt. Her service didn’t end with the Army.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

To recreate childhood photographs. This isn't a group I know a lot about, and we're all curious about how they will intersect with our local audience and with each other. He invites participants to write songs for each other about dealing with rejection. To celebrate political differences. To dress up their vacuum cleaners.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

They’ve given a few gifts of around $1,000 over the last couple of years, and you know they made a donation of around $7,000 to another local nonprofit last year. Say your donor is very interested in early childhood education. Say you’ve identified a potential major donor and have built a good rapport with them. Why Implement It?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For example, Mizfit is donated a dime per comment to a local women's shelter. September is Hunger Awareness Month so why not give a donation of canned goods and cash to your local food bank? Or, consider making a contribution to an organization like Share Our Strength that is working to end childhood hunger.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

It donates the products to impoverished people, preventing millions of hygiene-related deaths each year and encouraging vigorous childhood development (Clean the World, 2015). Clean the World is a nonprofit organization that collects and recycles discarded soap and hygiene products (Clean the World, 2015).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 17, 2022

You’ve probably heard the phrase “I have a dream” at least some point in your childhood. Many cities have a local MLK march or volunteer activation. For example, at Salesforce, we marched together as one company in our local MLK marches the last few years — learn more here. Listen to Dr. King’s Most Famous Speech.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

The project was linked to a larger exhibition, Santa Cruz Collects , about why local folks collect things. But tell an incredibly detailed story about your childhood, and you were likely to end up somewhere like a 3. From the beginning, we observed pretty amazing experiences happening with the Memory Jars.

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