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September Cause Awareness: National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

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Encourage conversations with friends and family about challenging the stigma and attitudes around mental health, or attend a local suicide prevention walk and invite your friends and family to join you. If you want to take things a step further, look up your local crisis center or community hotline and become a trained volunteer.

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Biker Philanthropy: TechSoup Revs Up Donated Computer Programs for Kids

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I gave Greg Reaster a call to find out what they were doing in the Tampa Bay area. After that Reaster began putting ads in the local paper soliciting for computers. We see lots of kids in the Tampa Bay area with natural smarts but no money in the family for a home computer. " Naturally, we were excited to check this out.

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From Ashton Kutcher to Soup: Super Bowl Giving

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The Souper Bowl of Caring 's mission is to use, "Super Bowl weekend to mobilize youth to fight hunger and poverty in their local communities." The youth at the Farmville Baptist Church in Farmville, VA will be collecting donations after the service for their local food bank, FACES. This year's winner was the Green Bay Packers.

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5 College Fundraising Ideas (That are Fun and Easy!)

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Holding a community service event. You can also invite members of your community to attend your barbeque. Holding a Community Service Event. Giving back to the community provides a sense of purpose and fulfillment. A great example of this is at a local university here in Tampa — The University of South Florida.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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State/Local / #MCNAC16 / @SmartNonprofits. State/Local. Affect is a new community event highlighting the diversity of work and design behind social change. It’ll open with candid stories about the ups and downs of working in social good and close with an afternoon of action and volunteering with local nonprofits.

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ASTC Recap: Questions, Colors, and Reflective Research

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We so frequently over-focus on our own institutions' problems, and Jane and her cohorts in Pittsburgh are thinking much more expansively about their collective power to make positive change in their community. IMLS also wanted to help museums and libraries improve their skills, both for audiences and for their own professional communities.