Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Lack of Food Isn't the (Whole) Problem. The Range mobile app helps address that awareness problem. You'll hear from Marnie Webb of Caravan Studios, who will talk about childhood hunger and resources to reduce the hunger gap in your community, including WhyHunger.org and the Range app. A Range of Nearby Summer Meals.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

I have a soft spot for nonprofits that tackle really hard problems, and autism is certainly one of those. Childhood Cancer Support in Canada. Finally, I liked the story of Candlelighters' Childhood Cancer Support Program in Ottawa, Canada. One that jumped out at me is the work that Anderson Center for Autism (ACA).

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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? Chase disqualified some charities without being transparent as to why.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Our problems are breeding grounds for solutions.”. We closed out the day with this activity, hoping to empower our allies to be their absolute best selves regardless of their childhood experiences or obstacles that they have had to overcome in life. She is our newest Project Specialist working with Public Allies AZ.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 1, 2017

Fundraising is certainly not exempt from this problem; we base decisions too often on expediency rather than an analysis of long-term consequences. It’s great to be cranking out fundraising projects, but if they aren’t resulting in gifts from donors who are growing more and more committed, it’s time to make a course direction. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Some of my best childhood memories are from going to public grade school. Receiving my weekly mimeographed schedule of to-dos (homework, meeting days for certain subjects, project due dates etc.), We live in a time when we need creativity more than ever to find innovative solutions to the world's problems.

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened more than 60 years ago. Childhood cancer is a global, multi-trillion dollar, multi-year problem. The sky is no longer the limit when it comes to finding a cure for childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Why not give a small donation to help a school in Africa, like Epic Change's projects or find a project in a corner of the world that is meaningful to you. Or sometimes the problem is that there isn't a safe playspace in a community. July: Ah, those summer months when we spend hours outside in the sun and fun.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

There are many folks who've written about the problems with "value" membership and have recommended that cultural institutions reorient toward offering "affinity" or "relationship" memberships. Signs like this one (spotted in the window at a large science center) drive me nuts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

My problem now is that I don't do a lot of processing with a pen or marker/flip chart anymore -- but I was standing up there, so I jotted some notes down on my moleskin. One of the scenarios focused on how to use social networking/media for a campaign around childhood obesity. Observations. I also ask if they have questions.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

We have to take risks and experiment in order to innovate because we’re solving some of the world’s most complex unsolved problems. And we break down those projects into things that can be completed in two weeks. . So once you have an execution goal, then, you can create a project, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2012

That might seem like a daunting prospect on a tight budget, but UMD found, in McKinney, a partner who was passionate enough about the cause to take on the yearlong project pro bono. Since most nonprofits are not equipped to build a game on their own, they need to seek out game design experts.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Despite her family's affluence, Lorraine Hansberry's childhood in Chicago during the 1930s was not without hardship, discrimination, and segregation. Girls Who Code , TGI Justice Project , Global Fund for Women , and Malala Fund are committed to disrupting the status quo for women and girls worldwide. Fund their work! Future Sheroes.

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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. I know a lot of you aren’t.

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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. I know a lot of you aren’t.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2007

At first listen, the book sounded like a childhood favorite of mine, The Eleventh Hour , a lavishly illustrated whodunit riddled with ciphers and a solution in a sealed envelope. Here's the problem I see with museum-based narratives and games: people don't revisit exhibits the way they revisit games. I don't get it."

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

I had a tough childhood there, but I was able to go to school and worked hard for the education my mother had given me the opportunity to get. I was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and at the age of five my father passed away suddenly. When I was 18, I went back to DRC and was reunited with my mother.

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Forum One

MARCH 24, 2009

This is the fourth in our series of "shovel-ready" internet projects -- Forum One's take on how to spend the the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)" popularly known as "the stimulus package.". Herein lies a problem. A major part of the problem for both sides is a lack of understanding of what best practices really are.

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