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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

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Subject lines with questions have higher open rates. You answered our call for donations so students could move off our waiting list and into classrooms. In Haiti, a typical adult has just five years of schooling, and the literacy rate is just 53 percent. You could go with, Do you know you are a hero? Personalized salutation.

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One Organization’s Quest for Good

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Her purpose would be discovered while visiting classrooms. While there, McDonald noticed that many classrooms had only a stack of books to share between hundreds of children. “It She found herself asking questions like, “How am I moving the needle? “It was one of these crazy life moments,” Stephans explained.

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Working Wikily: Establishing A Giving or Gifting Culture in Wiki Community

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" The course had no existing curriculum and it provided a real life laboratory for him to have the curriculum come out of the community interactions that were happening in the classroom. Another point about goals: Community Literacies esp. How to engage people more deeply and deepen some of the community learning literacies?

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MCON13: Working with Millennials

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It''s important to ask the question, "What thought capital do you bring to the world?" In addition, Fifth Third Foundation decided to focus on financial literacy teaching kids in classrooms about money management. One question that came up for the panel was, "How can organizations can balance wide-scale employee involvement?"

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Raymond raised some good reflective questions about backchannels that are still very relevant four years later as back channels goe more mainstream and search for best practices on how to incorporate them into our conferencing experience. You can combine this with asking the audience for “out-loud” questions as well.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While the speakers were talking, the avatars in Second Life were carrying on a lively debate in chat about the points raised, suggesting questions to be asked in the room in New York City, and passing along urls/resources related to the discussion at hand. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places.

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

We know you've got questions. Join us at ILA to learn how to break through the challenges of shifting practices, advocate for all students, and make a difference in and out of the classroom. The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference. The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference. We have the answers. Associations.

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