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Ending the Cycle of Poverty With Access to Quality Education

Saleforce Nonprofit

By: Kate Ginn, Senior Communications Editor, Cambodian Children’s Fund. Their fate seems set from a young age: Children living in some of the most deprived communities in Cambodia are often denied the chance of an education, trapped in a cycle of poverty with no escape. Hong Kong, and Australia. By 2000, Scott was living in L.A.

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Preparing Your Nonprofit to Move Beyond the Founder

Blue Avocado

As a founder, you may experience this as a lack of competence, dedication, or understanding, and justify the churn as a matter of finding the right people for the job. Like children as they grow to independence, there will come times when you may find your relationship to the organization grows confusing and fraught.

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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

Blue Avocado

Growing Pains Founded in 1926, AbilityFirst (formerly known as the Crippled Children’s Society of Southern California or CCS) was created to help children with polio and other physical disabilities, and I was hired in 1998 to turn around this disability service organization. Finally, the board began doing a good job of policing itself.

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Putting the AI in Education: Stepping Toward Generative Artificial Intelligences 

sgEngage

If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked? We didn’t ask.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] What To Do When A Donor Says “No”

Bloomerang

But I feel I’m not doing my job. It could be the executive director, another key program staffer, or the board president. Is it children? Offer an opportunity to name a child therapy room or to fund an endowment for at-risk children. If I never meet, how can I build relationships? That’s what I’m good at! Is it seniors?

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Why Outsource to Blue Fox? Just Ask One of Our Newest Clients

Blue Fox

An Interview with MIB Agents Executive Director and Treasurer Outsourced virtual accounting services for nonprofits? In this interview, you’ll hear from the Ann Graham, the organization’s Executive Director and Founder, and Laura Faught, Treasurer. Yes, that really does exist! But, does it work?

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How to Write Fundraising Emails That Get Results

Get Fully Funded

Your fundraising emails have ONE JOB: get people to take action. Just remember, your job is to write a fundraising email that will get opened, get read, and get the action you are seeking: a donation. . We will provide career services right on site, including career classes, résumé support, and access to a jobs database.

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