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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. Senior Humanitarian Climate Crisis Advisor, Save the Children International. However, there’s a lot more work to be done.

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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

Bloomerang

Act one is where we learn what normal life looks like before the story is set in motion. Think of act one as meeting Harry Potter and learning about his dreary life before he receives that Hogwarts letter informing him he is, in fact, a wizard. Hospice and homelessness can both be taboo subjects that can make people uncomfortable.

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Crafting Sticky, Emotional Stories That Reach Your Audience

Tech Soup

That's because these aren't just children's nursery rhymes; they're sticky stories, or stories that stick with you for decades. When we were children, we all knew how important stories were. Imagine a story being told to children around a campfire. Now swap out the children with adults.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

First, no trains, buses, or planes moved to or from New York City. We turned on CNN and watched together as scenes from New Jersey and New York flashed across the screen. This puts New York City’s economic disparity on par with places like Sierra Leone or Namibia. I wanted to get them to safety.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

I live now in New York, but before moving there in the autumn, I was based in London for a few years. Maybe you’re a homeless shelter, and you want to partner with a shelter on the other side of town to better track and understand the community experiencing homelessness in your city. BlueGreen Alliance. What is it about?

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Twenty "Fearless" Changemakers

Have Fun - Do Good

Jen Fu Cheng | Peak Potential Climbing | Fairfield, NJ Peak Potential is an organization running a 12-week introduction to rock climbing for children with physical disabilities. Twitter: @CSElive ) 6. Twitter: @PeakClimb ) 7. Twitter: @clarkfork ) 10. Twitter: @americasvoice ) 20.

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450 Email Subject Lines From End of Year Fundraising

Connection Cafe

Best Innovation in Graphics: This one goes to Lifeline Children’s Services for showing a giving pyramid inside the email noting how many gifts of each level they had received and still needed to get. Countdown for our children. Would you like to change a life in 2016? New Year’s Eve Gala/Performance and more.

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