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Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

After a year of pandemic-fueled isolation — undoubtedly a primary factor in 42% of adults experiencing anxiety and depression, up 11% from previous years — educational institutions and businesses are making the mental wellbeing of their students and employees a priority. Charlamagne Tha God’s Life’s Work is Helping Black People Heal.

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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

Millions of low-income students rely on free or low-cost school meals. households with children under 18 experienced food insecurity that year. households with hungry children. Lack of Food Isn't the (Whole) Problem. The Range mobile app helps address that awareness problem. That's 3.9 MILLION U.S.

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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. young people are developing their own creative solutions to problems. Not only did the piece showcase the uniqueness of this particular student, but also the opportunity to cultivate creativity through technical. technological solution. Youth-Created Apps.

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A Strong Message for Fundraising = More and Bigger Donations

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It’s how you explain to a potential donor who your organization helps, what problem you are working to solve, and how your organization is changing lives. Because of that community support, we are able to provide 125 families each month with the food they need to feed themselves and their children. . Example 2: .

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge. Go read it. The skill set: Play ???

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How to Source Great Year-end Stories

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Connect the story to the larger problem your donor will help solve with their gift. But this is the kind of reporting you’re likely to get back: Denise, a mother with three minor children, requested assistance with rent and utility. Were there setbacks? How did your donors help them? Show what changed. Don’t forget the narrative.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

It was exhilarating to see them inspired to create their own meanings in response: lovers whispering together in alcoves, people of all ages writing and drawing on walls and post-its, children painting, everyone sitting rapt before screens. What kind of crazy museum gives people sharpies and lets them write on a wall?