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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And while video games like Zoo Tycoon or online games can teach them all sorts of skills that will need to be successful adults (and this has been validated recently by a MacArthur Foundation funded study ,) I was excited to discover this wonderful list of games for change.

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22 Must-Circle Nonprofits on Google+

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Like Twitter, you have to post or share content frequently to get exposure in the feed since there is no Edgerank-like algorithm to filter out (boring) posts/tweets. Children’s National Medical Center. Teaching Tolerance. To me, the Google+ Stream feels like a mixture of Twitter and Facebook. Acción contra el Hambre.

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Nonprofit Donor Engagement Strategies: Breaking Through the Noise

Neon CRM

Teaching them something. Try teaching people a fun fact or statistic related to your work. You could also try teaching them a fun new skill. As you connect with your supporters, look for ways to add value to your readers’ lives by entertaining them, making them feel good, or teaching them something new.

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1 Million Trailhead Badges: Lessons from Salesforce.org’s Trailhead Journey

Saleforce Nonprofit

Thank you to the network of Salesforce.org partners who support our customers in meeting their missions of feeding hungry families, routing vaccines to remote communities, caring for children after school, advising first-generation college students…in other words, having monumental impact across the world. What’s next?

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How Do I Get My Nonprofit’s CEO To Use Twitter or other Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” This is the advice that Carolyn Miles of Save the Children offered. Here’s a collection of cheat sheets that you can use to teach any Nonprofit CEO almost any social media channel. Here’s an example of Save The Children and its CEO, Carolyn Miles. Get Their Attention: “Camp outside their door.”

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

If we focus our work on feeding the hungry, for example, do we actually create a system in which we rely on people needing our services? My mother taught me many things, and I feel like with every year she teaches me more – whether she knows it or not. What would happen, instead, if organizations focused on eliminating hunger?)

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Making the Play: Successfully Engaging.

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Wednesday, June 15, 2011 Making the Play: Successfully Engaging Youth Within the Nonprofit Sector posted by David "DJ" Heyward , American Humanics Student / Team MPhasis Coach Many of us in the nonprofit sector work specifically with children and young adults. Kids know they can expect two things from us: sports and God.

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