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Seven Ways to Make Sure Your Blog Gets Noticed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A blog carnival is a series of blog posts related to one theme, in this case, the promotion of USDA-proposed nutritional standards for snacks in schools, which coincided with a Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project poll showing that most Americans support the guidelines. In this particular tweet chat, the No.

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Why You Should Run Your Nonprofit Like a Business

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And you need policies, procedures, and processes. So to figure that out, you’d start with a market study proving there are people living around and driving by the proposed donut shop who would want to buy donuts. Or are they the familiar donuts from childhood? You have to establish your brand. You need a marketing plan.

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5 Tips And Tactics To Become A Master Nonprofit Wordsmith

Bloomerang

Our distaste for writing followed us into adulthood because we still suffer from the same writing inadequacies we had in childhood. In fact, we created a policy stating at least three staff members had to proofread any document slated for public distribution. We suffer writer’s block. We struggle to organize thoughts.

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Minnesota Open Idea: Crowdsourcing Contest For Social Change Done Right

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, the community foundation finished its first Minnesota Open Idea contest to fund the best idea to address the childhood obesity issue. Why did you pick the childhood obesity issue for the challenge? Then the group came together and debated the highest-scored proposals and whittled the pool down to 21 ideas.

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