Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

National Volunteer Week has come and gone, but I ask you to join me every week in celebrating the amazing contributions of TechSoup's NetSquared community. Our mighty army of volunteers hosted over 500 free nonprofit technology trainings last year, and we're on track to reach even more organizers this year. You like numbers?

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 5, 2011

Lili Wang as she provides insight into the Hispanic volunteering community. Understanding the determinants of Hispanic volunteering and the types of volunteer work that interest Hispanics can help nonprofit organizations target their recruiting efforts and tailor their programs to the Hispanic population.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

If you want to take things a step further, look up your local crisis center or community hotline and become a trained volunteer. In addition to education, they equip individuals with the information they need to recognize the warning signs of suicide and to provide them with the tools and resources for critical lifesaving intervention.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 28, 2014

Their work is straightforward: fix up donated computers and give them to needy children. BIKERSCAP is an all-volunteer project that started in March 2009 in the depths of the great recession. BIKERSCAP now has around 20 volunteers, mostly older bikers, who meet on weekends to fix PCs and hold charitable events.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Given that they were the children of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, they didn’t have the income to support significant giving. For example, we’ve been working with Florida Power and Light and Nextera Energy, on a project to help save and protect Florida manatees. Q: What is a digital agency?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 4, 2012

In January of this year, nonprofit organization Invisible Children released “Kony 2012,” a video about Joseph Kony. In March, over 2 million people signed an online petition asking the city of Sanford, Florida to investigate the death of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin. Enlist help from your volunteer workforce. Plan, plan, plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

I started my  Day of Service experience at Friendship Public Charter School  at the Southeast Elementary Academy  in the school cafeteri where volunteers were hard at work painting two murals.     I also talked to the volunteers about why they were so passionate about the issue of ending childhood hunger.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

Magic is part of the Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses , a Florida charity that visits more than 35,000 adults and children each year with its team of tiny horses. The organization visits hospitals, hospice programs, and children who have experienced traumatic events.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2015

At the time, I was working part-time for a prominent career coach in Palm Beach County Florida. But Toby (my coach) wasn’t your typical career coach, she also planned and hosted Board trainings and served and volunteered at children’s organizations. She was a leader.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 13, 2012

From the annual fund to major gift solicitation, there is heavy lifting to do at every step of the process and any help you can get – especially in volunteer form – ultimately makes your efforts more fruitful. The good, the bad, and the ugly – nothing is concealed.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

Latino and Asian populations are expected to nearly triple, and the children of immigrants will become more prominent. Today in the United States, 25 percent of children under age 5 are Hispanic; by 2050, that percentage will be almost 40 percent. So What and Who Cares? The changing demographics of the U.S.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 27, 2021

Teach For America (TFA) is an education nonprofit operating in support of a vision that one day all children in the United States will have the opportunity to attain an equitable and excellent education. Creating a Constituent-First Marketing Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills. Support Children. Shaping Youth recommends supporting Age of Conversation to Benefit Variety, The Children's Charity. Can I Sit With You?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We’ll be in Wyoming, in Colorado, and Florida over the coming months to do strategic planning and development work with nonprofits of all shapes and sizes. So this is specific to donors but you may be sharing your impact with people that you want to engage as partners or clients or volunteers. So that’s the extended impact.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Because many of CUAV's volunteer bloggers were more knowledgeable about issues such as the trans-phobic tactics that were being used by the lawyers, they were able to address many issues that the mainstream media missed. Urban Sprouts , a school gardening program, allows volunteers, as well as staff, to post on their blog.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Or “Florida conservation efforts?” This could be a straightforward appeal for donations, or it could be volunteer opportunities, information about upcoming events, or other ways to get involved. Think about search terms related to your work or that people would use to find organizations like yours.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

2006 study by Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health : After MRI brain scanning of volunteers as they were asked to think about a scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity or keeping it for themselves, researchers found giving won out.

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Achieve

AUGUST 6, 2019

Through strategically placed visuals (usually of volunteers, homes and they people they serve) paired with informative copy – Habitat for Humanity uses Instagram to help re-educate people about their mission, while highlighting the tremendous impact they’ve been making since their formal founding in 1976. . Follow: @habitatforhumanity.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But my buddy Abby Jarvis is joining us from beautiful Lakeland, Florida. They’re volunteering their time. You can offer them volunteer opportunities. I mean, of course, you may want to include them in appeals, your standard appeals, but give them opportunities to volunteer with you. You can ask them to volunteer.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

And I wrote two books which are also like my other two children. Komen Florida used ManyChat, and they use it for their Race for the Cure because people were saying, “What time does the race start? Boston Children’s Hospital, learn more about us. Komen Florida. Where do I need to go to start the race?

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