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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

They discussed ways that technology can improve services for people experiencing food insecurity, as well as the policy changes, investments, and cross-sector partnerships that are necessary to drive meaningful, lasting change. Director of Advocacy, Policy, and Research, Hunger Free America. “ Jennifer Thall. .”

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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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What Mesh Businesses Should Support Philanthropy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Great, provocative question. Efurd’s question demands an examination of the functions that philanthropies need to tap — functions that could be commoditized and procured and delivered over a network. Marty Kearns, of Netcentric Campaigns, has a more intriguing answer to Efurd’s question.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Using Twitter to Build Support Among Latinos for the Affordable Care Act

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We used this opportunity to support the work of MALDEF and reach Latinos with information about the ACA by tweeting out questions — in English — and links to our member stories related to our platform of issues, including the economy, early childhood education and health care, specifically the Affordable Care Act.

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Online Professional Networks: Collaboration to Save Infants' Lives

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I think there are at least five good reasons: They help us find each other, and answer the age-old development question: Who is doing what on a topic, and where? Often this critical focus is buried in maternal and childhood health programs.). They help feature and comment on the best resources and expertise.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. One answer to these questions may be the social enterprise model, which has the potential to revolutionize both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. For footnote references please visit this link.

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