Blue Avocado

MARCH 5, 2024

One that, like actual childhood and early adolescence, is full of hazards, and that inevitably must come to an end. A new nonprofit begins as a figment, something fully realized only in the founder’s mind. It is a stage of development in the nonprofit life cycle. Birth is an apt metaphor for the founder years.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 29, 2020

Organizations that keep this in mind are highlighting their contributors unmistakably on their sites, planning to persuade other funders, and showcasing their significant accomplishments inside the organization. Donors keep nonprofit organizations on their feet and in business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

A number of standard philanthropy business processes, like financial due diligence, come to mind. Obtaining expertise for peer review also comes to mind, though one could argue that that function has always been mesh-based in the sense that foundations tap experts that they don’t employ for short, just-in-time (on a good day) reviews.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

Improving childhood nutrition. On the steps out of TED, I was chatting with one of the attendees about what to do to help Gabby and other people recovering from brain injuries, and of course my mind went to software to help recover cognitive function. Old-fashioned cooking methods kill millions each year.

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NTEN

JULY 8, 2014

Wondering what goes through a Red Cross er''s mind while watching "Game of Thrones"? Want to combat childhood hunger? Turns out, there''s parallels in the fictional series to real-life emergency response. Open diversity data is an effort to make the diversity data collected by companies publicly available. There''s an app for that!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

I am excited to participate in the Impact Lab to leverage the brilliance of the gathered minds, the passion of the organizations, and the support of Salesforce to create an innovative way to make certain no child is in danger of being hungry.”. “My personal goal of #domoregood requires accelerants and challenges to the status quo.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 6, 2014

You’ve been hearing that practice makes perfect since your childhood days (OK, you were right, mom and dad). And kind of just allowing your mind to have a blank canvas to think of crazy ideas that probably aren’t that crazy. And we admit, practice with your social media marketing and fundraising tactics will make you better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2011

I grew up in South Jersey and spent my childhood on the beach and in the ocean. I’m not going completely off the grid, but greatly reducing my normal load. So you’ll see less of me here, on Twitter, Google+, Facebook, and email. Maybe a little surfing or walking along the beach looking for shells.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2018

When people think of summer fundraising, a barbecue is probably one of the first events that comes to mind. Put an adult spin on this classic childhood money-maker by trading Minute Maid for the real thing—lemons, sugar and water. It’s a great opportunity to network with your community and encourage social interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

In 2012, President Obama responded to the activism, passion, and residency of the Dreamers, by issuing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to protect them from deportation and provided them with temporary work visas. What were your results? What did you do to get those results?

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Qgiv

MAY 13, 2021

Youth organizations like yours don’t just help kids live happier, healthier childhoods—you prepare them for the future! Another hybrid fundraising idea designed with kids in mind is a hybrid video game event. Nonprofit in action: This next example was designed with children and families in mind. Video game fundraising events.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Primary colors evoke childhood and optimism. Keep these points in mind when creating your nonprofit website. Choose a color palette for your website that reflects your brand and how you want people to feel. Blue and green are cool, calming colors that work great for outdoorsy, environmental nonprofits. Keep it simple.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I spent my childhood building fortresses from K’nex, spaceships from Legos and sculpting blue and green snowmen from Play-Doh. I may be part of a generation of vigorous consumers, but I was raised at the end of an era where exploration and creativity were more important than mindless consumption and technology.

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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. Conclusion The Qgiv Team had a blast attending AFP Icon this year and connecting with other mission-minded individuals.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2020

Tip 1: Highlight a Treasured Childhood Memory. What is an activity that your nonprofit does or can do for the group you serve that brings to mind a shared memory? Watch a video featuring the Valentines campaign. Why was this campaign so successful? Below are my five tips for creating something similar at your shop.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Nonprofit Success Story: The American Childhood Cancer Organization has raised over $43,000 through several successful campaigns, featuring the international symbol of support for those living with childhood cancer. The consultation donation through TechSoup, however, has an admin fee of $20.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 8, 2014

Most importantly, keep in mind that people generally need incentive beyond the satisfaction of “doing a good job” — at least in the long term. Terry McManus provides leadership and coordination for TGen’s fundraising efforts in the areas of neurogenomics, metabolic disorders, and rare childhood disorders.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2016

What comes to mind when you think of “ nonprofit psychology?”). When you’re developing marketing materials, keep this principle in mind. Research on nearly any topic can be found, from early childhood development to education to addiction recovery. To boil it down, psychology is simply the study of why.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Things which seemed universal to me as a boy were in fact very culturally specific to my childhood in southern England and wouldn’t have had any resonance even twenty miles across the English channel in France where their Noël celebrations differ widely. I didn’t realize as a child how traditions vary across the Christian world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2009

PledgeToEndHunger.com , a website designed to shine a bright light on the very real problem of childhood hunger in America. Minds at Work. That's why I'm taking the pledge to end hunger because if we all do a little bit - it can go a long way. And You can too! This website is a joint effort of Tyson Foods , Share Our Strength , Hum.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having a dollar amount in mind that you feel confident about will help ease that tension. Takeaway Having a specific gift amount in mind can help you go into your ask with more confidence. Say your donor is very interested in early childhood education. It’s intimidating to ask for money, especially major-gift-level money.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Nonprofit Success Story: The American Childhood Cancer Organization recently raised over $7,000 with a T-shirt featuring the international symbol of support for those living with childhood cancer. Special Plan for Nonprofits: CauseVox is designed with nonprofits in mind and offers desing help as well as 24/7 customer support.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 13, 2015

Creating an immaculate visual brand—specifically within your website—for people to connect with is the way to stay top-of-mind when faced with the question, “Where should I donate?”. Keep in mind that these two things aren’t exactly mutually exclusive. If 85 percent of millennials are giving to NPOs, where are they giving?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Storytelling makes it personal and transforms the heart and mind of your target audience by showing them why something is important, instead of just telling them. Since childhood, we have been taught to expect a certain structure for stories to follow. How can storytelling improve your nonprofit’s communication strategy?

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 12, 2016

The participants of the challenge ranged from your childhood friends to celebrities, athletes, politicians and business moguls. Keep in mind that you don’t have to utilize every form of social media just because it’s there and it’s free. A few years ago the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge took over the Internet.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2014

It was like waking up from a nap in what I thought was my childhood bed, only to find that it was 3:00 p.m. I’ve got one on my mind. I had a surge of utter panic when my hibernation holiday break came to a hault. and I was actually in my cubicle, drooling on my laptop. You know, start 2014 off with a bang. Take a look.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 21, 2013

One of my favorite childhood memories is watching Murder, She Wrote with my mom. Where there is an open mind , there will always be a frontier.” The other night I was watching Elementary. If you haven’t watched it, it’s a modern take on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. What can I say I love a good mystery. I always have.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Here is my childhood utopian vision: I believe that technology is the greatest component that will help us create, learn, …and experiment towards our collaborative missions. Bring in nonprofit technology and we have just blown people's minds. This coming year, they plan to organize more days of giving and service.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Second, frequent stories in the news about high profile viral fundraising campaigns establish independent fundraising more and more firmly in people’s minds as “a thing that we do” when we feel called to help. He raised over $760,000 by appealing to his worldwide following. Within a matter of weeks this campaign raised $3.8

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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. Elsbeth Pollack Program Manager, Public Allies Arizona.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Tagging is not only a tool for archiving and locating online resources, it can also be used to collaborate with your volunteers and other like-minded organizations and even for fundraising. " UNICEF used mobile tagging technology to raise awareness of the childhood hunger and raise money. The campaign.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 30, 2014

This nonprofit raises money for childhood cancer research and is most noted for their head-shaving events where participants ask for donations before they agree to, yes—have their locks shorn. Keep this in mind when you think about looking for your next generation of donors. Baldrick’s Foundation located in Monrovia, California.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It’s very difficult to manage fundraising without the proper fundraising resources, like a sophisticated donor database that enables YMCAs to create fundraising campaigns and online donation forms, and (even better) can offer predictive giving insights to reveal philanthropically-minded high-net-worth members that they can cultivate and solicit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

Their hope was to develop a fun way to bring families together - old and young - to have some fun while ultimately raising money and funds for those battling childhood cancers. Online organizing is good for latent communities of like-minded people to organize themselves??? ???Definition t get out there. Definition of ???common

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

in General Childhood Education at Bank Street College of Education. With this in mind, we wanted to find a way to expand the breadth of opportunities for our students and others like them. I taught in the Bronx for two years through Teach For America while working toward my M.A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

" Create a Holiday Tradition of Giving Happy Katie recalls her own childhood traditions of giving, both during the holidays and year round. is important to keep all of these things in mind when choosing a group to support and how to support them." Amy Sample Ward reminds us that your kids don't have to give cash only.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

So, with the influx of questions we received around preparing for end of year fundraising, I realized that these questions are probably on a lot of fundraisers’ minds these days. Brock Warner, CFRE is the Senior Manager, Fundraising at War Child , a humanitarian organization devoted to protecting childhood in war zones.

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