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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Offer a Match: Blogger Marion Conway ,whose children are now grown, recommended the book Raising Charitable Children by Carol Wiseman. Children for Children Foundation. When I was in the third grade, I volunteered to bake cupcakes to help fundraise for Lucy the Elephant (who thankfully survived super storm Sandy ).

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Preparing Your Nonprofit to Move Beyond the Founder

Blue Avocado

In short, the founder problem isn’t really a problem, if you understand it correctly. As the founder, you may find yourself in conflict with others who seem too cautious, who want to stick with a plan that to you feels outdated or inadequate to the problem you confront. It is a stage of development in the nonprofit life cycle.

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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Proceeds aid musicians and music industry workers who are struggling with illness, disease, and age-related problems. Proceeds go to both the talented artisans that create the beautifully crafted products in the UNICEF Market and to help UNICEF save and protect children. 29) Ten Thousand Villages :: tenthousandvillages.com.

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The Mother-Led Movement to Save Our Kids’ Climate

Saleforce Nonprofit

I believe that our children’s generation is key to creating lasting change in equality, justice, climate change, and human rights. It’s the gift of having my children teach me that everyday actions can make a world of difference. Children are teaching their parents that everyday actions can make a world of difference.

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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

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Plot/Desire: In any good story, there’s a problem that becomes part of the plot of the story. And the hero has a desire to overcome that problem. For our fictitious story, the plot is that many children only eat one meal a day — dinner. For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school.

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An Innovative Approach to Social Problems: Caravan Studios

Tech Soup

Sometimes extraordinary things can happen when we look at problems from a new point of view. Caravan Studios drew in local nonprofits with an invitation for snacks and some serious brainstorming — to hear the problems that only those people deeply involved knew about because they ran into these obstacles daily.

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"This Is My Friend": How the Kosch-Westerman Foundation Connects Terminally Ill Children to the Outside World

Tech Soup

Children love their freedom. Technology can be a window to the outside world that gives these children back some of their freedom, and becomes a companion in the process. Technology can be a window to the outside world that gives these children back some of their freedom, and becomes a companion in the process. He was wrong.