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Going Beyond the Dollar: The Community Leadership Role of Foundations

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In this regard, funders have a unique opportunity to contribute to nonprofit excellence by providing mentorship, sponsorship, and professional development opportunities, thereby helping to elevate the overall capacity and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector.

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Online Professional Networks: Collaboration to Save Infants' Lives

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The audience will be a mix of students and professionals, many of whom are traveling from New York and D.C. While pulling my thoughts together, I asked myself, why should we create better online professional networks? Often this critical focus is buried in maternal and childhood health programs.).

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Two Ways To Use Crowdsourcing for Face-to-Face Conferences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The conference brings together professionals who working on early learning research, practice, and policy to promote improvement and expansion of services for children ages 0 to 5 in the state. And, of course, if you care about early childhood education in California, be sure to vote or add your questions.

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How the Latino Community Foundation Used Learning and Pivoting to Get Better Fundraising Results

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Director of Programs and Policy answered a few questions about how they used learning and pivoting to get better results. LCF was inspired by the potential impact of this policy and wanted to ensure that all Latino families that could, would take advantage of this new policy. Or would you learn, pivot, and improve?

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Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

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To meet needs, they co-fund professional development in areas like fundraising, strategic planning, facilitation, evaluation, racial equity work, marketing and communications, storytelling, and more. . Funder coalitions working at the city or state level can pool their resources to support data and research that backs policy change.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Elsbeth Pollack

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I’m really excited that we have opened up our program to folks with DACA status (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). Do you have any advice for nonprofit professionals and/or aspiring nonprofit professionals? What are you most looking forward to with regard to your work and/or the future of the nonprofit sector?

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How Zero to Three Improves Childhood Development Through Salesforce Technology

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Working to support and educate the communities that impact children’s development, including parents, healthcare professionals, and policymakers, this vital organization seeks to lay the foundation for all infants and toddlers in pursuit of a bright future. Deepening Relationships. Blog: What Can Salesforce Do For Nonprofits?