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Is it a movement or a moment?

Candid

When it comes to raising visibility on a given issue, nonprofits often strive to achieve broader impact—the kind of change that comes through collective action. For example, across East Africa, our teams work with Youth Champions to elevate awareness of the drivers of hunger, including the climate crisis, conflict, and chronic inequality.

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Days of Service – Let’s Evolve the Vision

VQ Strategies

On the positive side, they are an effective device to raise the profile of volunteering in our communities. How can we collaborate with funders to re-imagine a vision for days of service? Yet, there’s much more to the story. Days of Service are a double-edged sword.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

What would happen, instead, if organizations focused on eliminating hunger?) When working with communities, trying to enable change, looking for opportunities to spark collaboration, love seems like a strange thing to think about for many people. Are you fueling with love?

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An Interview with the Web Team at Fight Hunger (4 out of 5 women)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Meet the Fight Hunger Web Team From left: Anna Yl??-Kauttu, e Forsyth-Sommer, Cordelia Salter-Nour, and Emanuele Quinto - photo in flickr with bios Fight Hunger is a division of the UN World Food Programme set up to help end child hunger by 2015 which is part of the first Millennium Development Goal. Kauttu, Susanne Th??rnqvist,

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Family Volunteering – All Together Now!

VQ Strategies

Family friendly opportunities have purpose, can be explained simply, promote collaboration, allow for creativity, encourage cross-generational communication, and strengthen relationships within the family. Then, review that list to determine which of these could be adapted to be a family friendly volunteer opportunity.

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Technology, Data, and Indian Nonprofits: Enabling Philanthropy

Tech Soup

The campaign gave exposure to 168 NGOs and raised 125,000 rupees in addition to in-kind donations. The Hunger Project India helps those affected by hunger and victimized by social suppression in six Indian states. However, data processing and collaboration were difficult because they used non-licensed and outdated software.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A community group worked hard to get her placed on the historic register and raise money to restore her to her mid-century glory. My kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events.