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Connecting in a Disconnected World: A Recap of our “Teeny Conversation”

Top Nonprofits

The first question asked was “What changes have you seen in your audience during 2020? Some connected with people abroad – from eastern Europe to Mexico. Using virtual meeting tools, such as chats, polls, and game wheels to engage families and young children in ways beyond a “zoom call” online. What was positive?

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Research Friday: Why Give to International Charities?

ASU Lodestar Center

is a question I often hear people ask. As I become more immersed in the nonprofit world, I learn more about dilemmas in philanthropy; questions like: "where will my contribution have the most impact?" As part of a. continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

They do this work through online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions that are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. My first question of course was, "How does that work with three offices, 40 employees, and thousands of volunteers to keep track of in nearly every country?"

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

" Macon Phillips, special assistant to the President and director of new media for the White House, was a volunteer during Hurricane Katrina. Working in a Baton Rouge shelter, he saw children looking for their parents, and parents looking for their children, yet matching them was difficult.

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A Small Group Can Make a Big Difference

Have Fun - Do Good

Last weekend Meg, a group of young people from Covenant House, and other volunteers and Covenant House staff members went down to deliver the supplies. We were able to hand out 210 backpacks and had about 20 left over to leave with the school for children who missed the event. Her event raised over $2,000!

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The Imperfect Storm, Part 2

Connection Cafe

Our generation (boomers) focuses on the results a nonprofit generates through its services (the question of what the money's actually doing to help people vs. the focus on the money itself). Today's nonprofits need to ask some vital questions about how they are looking at the world of philanthropy. Donors don't just want to give money.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

They do this work through online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions that are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. My first question of course was, "How does that work with three offices, 40 employees, and thousands of volunteers to keep track of in nearly every country?"

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