ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 26, 2013

Now charities also have to work on the cause of the problems: they have to become the movements for change.” 1 The original name for New Pathways for Youth is an example of how the organization looked at the symptoms of the problems with youth in Phoenix and labeled them as being “at-risk.”

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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. Our problems are breeding grounds for solutions.”. Our diversity is a blessing: a valuable resource.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

My main problem isn't necessarily about Chase. 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. This new agency promotes practical problem solving for sustainable development. The Huge Progress We've Made So Far.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Some of my best childhood memories are from going to public grade school. We live in a time when we need creativity more than ever to find innovative solutions to the world's problems. 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.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

My main problem isn't necessarily about Chase. 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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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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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Shrinking government budgets and greater competition for ever-fewer dollars are reducing the scale and effectiveness of nonprofits in meeting the nation’s growing challenges and intractable problems.

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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. They’re both about the mission.

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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. Or sometimes the problem is that there isn't a safe playspace in a community. September is Hunger Awareness Month so why not give a donation of canned goods and cash to your local food bank? Organizations like Kaboom help build them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2010

It combines expert judging with popular vote, online strategy with good old fashion off line organizing, links objectives to a theory of change, and incorporates a fun and engaging way for people to learn about and take action on a timely community problem. Why did you pick the childhood obesity issue for the challenge?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2012

Because childhood obesity is a much more widespread problem than pediatric cancer, “we realized that philanthropic dollars alone would really not allow us to reach nearly as many kids as might benefit from this,” Tate explains. But creating the game also conferred trust in UMD’s brand in its own backyard. “It

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

Goals The main goals were to raise awareness of childhood hunger in America, give people the tools to take meaningful action to help end this solvable problem, and create a case study from which non-profits and corporations could learn how to better use social media in their cause marketing. Just old fashioned phone calls and emails.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So I think we can be a little bit like fish in water when it comes to our limiting beliefs, right, especially those that we have about ourselves because these can be beliefs we pick up in childhood, for example, beliefs about money are really big ones that we pick up from our families very, very early. It never has been. It never will be.

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Forum One

MARCH 24, 2009

You may know what autism spectrum disorder (ASD) entails , but the grim summary is that children with the condition tend to have significant to severe behavior problems that tax caregiver's time and energy while not having the social skills that form the fabric of human relationships. Herein lies a problem.

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