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What strategies can nonprofit leaders use to move program beneficiaries into program partners?

ASU Lodestar Center

Great evidence exists that nonprofit professionals face obstacles, mostly their own preconceived ideas, around proactively involving program beneficiaries in their program practices. These program practices include needs assessment, decision-making, program implementation, and evaluation. Obstacle 2: “We have no time.”.

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Growing Readers: Free Webinars for Early Childhood Orgs

Tech Soup

The Early Learning Lab , Frontiers of Innovation , and New Profit , along with partners Joan Ganz Cooney Center and TechSoup, are working together to build the technology capacity of the early childhood education field. If you work with young children at a nonprofit or library, this free webinar series is for you. Register now.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. The education program’s developmental target is the first eight years of life.

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It's National 211 Day!

VisionLink

And more—many of these 211s serve as the first point of contact during disasters, offer specialized screenings for the homeless, kinship care programs, senior citizen inquiries, and special programs that connect with addiction recovery, workforce needs, early childhood assistance, veterans assistance, crisis hotlines and so much more.

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11 Holiday Gift Programs that Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Below are 11 great holiday gift programs that benefit nonprofits and make the world a better place: 1. Jude’s Children’s Hospital: Get into the holiday spirit with ornaments, decorations and other gifts that inspire hope and help fight childhood cancer. Is that a legacy we want to leave behind? View Gifts. View Gifts.

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Client Spotlight: National Pediatric Cancer Foundation

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In 2012, President Barack Obama named September National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month to raise awareness of pediatric cancer. Not only does NPCF focus on ultimately eliminating pediatric cancer, they’re dedicated to research and clinical trials to find less toxic, more effective treatments for childhood cancer. Projects and Impact.

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Youth Programs Featured in TechSoup Global’s Local Impact Map

Tech Soup

We found out about them through our Show Your Impact Program in which nonprofits describe how they’re using technology to support and further their work. They’ve made good use of TechSoup’s donation programs. Childhood Cancer Support in Canada. Children from the second grade on get laptops in this program.

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