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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

Regardless of what work you are doing – campaigning for political change, providing services to your local community, educating others, or anything else – would it look different, would it feel different, would it operate differently if love was the central message? Are you fueling with love? To Mama With Love.

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3 Keys to Setting Up Your Fundraising Calendar for Success

Top Nonprofits

Local giving day. These could be a local giving day that’s already being sponsored or promoted, or you can come up with your own internal campaign. Amy lives in New Jersey with her husband, two children, and three dogs. Within the plan, drive towards four different “funding catalysts”. Calendar year end.

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Research on Gender Pay Gap in Nonprofit Sector

Top Nonprofits

She was named to the national Nonprofit Times Top 50 for Power and Influence and has been recognized locally by several organizations, including the Girls Scouts and Pittsburgh City Council. Amy lives in New Jersey with her husband, two children, and three dogs. About Author. Amy DeVita. Share This Post!

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5 Steps to Creating Effective Community Health Initiatives

Connection Cafe

Inspira closely examined their data and discovered that children ages 10-17 were experiencing double the rate of obesity of anywhere else in New Jersey. While Inspira was developing its community health strategy, the Inspira Foundation was sharing this new direction with potential partners. This became their “why.”.

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Caravan Studios for the Win: ReImagine: Opportunity Winner!

Tech Soup

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. In our case, one of the finalists was the human trafficking housing locator from Polaris Project and the New Jersey Department of Children and Families.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We turned on CNN and watched together as scenes from New Jersey and New York flashed across the screen. According to a report by the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 450,000 people (including at least 4,000 children under five) are now at risk of severe acute malnutrition.

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Demographics Are Destiny: How and Why to Diversify Your Staff Now!

NTEN

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.