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Case Study: Community-Based Fundraising

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These may be easy to execute, as they don’t require much planning, yet they are far less personal than community-based fundraisers, providing less of an opportunity to increase awareness about your cause. Case Study: The Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community. Highmark Inc.

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Grant Writing and the Perfect Storytelling

Tech Soup

In rural Boone County, West Virginia, Jennifer Massey bathes her children in contaminated water. The well water in the remote mountain community of Prescott where she lives contains elevated levels of lead, arsenic, and manganese. It can be something as simple as an opening like this (this is fiction, by the way!):

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The Bold, Focused Ideas of Breakthrough Nonprofit Brands: Book Giveaway Winners Announced

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A crisp brand meaning should be the filter for decision making internally as well as externally, especially regarding the building of community around the organization’s cause, partnerships, communications and revenue generation. They face the possibility of losing their home when redevelopment threatens.

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How Chestnut Ridge Church Reinvents the Church Experience with Technology

Tech Soup

It's probably no accident that Chestnut Ridge Church has become the largest church in West Virginia. Chestnut Ridge Church is a big independent evangelical church in Morgantown, West Virginia. It's all made possible by the church's creative use of technology. An Administrative Gift.

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Litigating a Path to Progress: Nonprofit Advocacy through the Courts

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As federal and state legislative bodies have stalled from political polarization, many nonprofits find that traditional advocacy pathways are no longer viable to create systemic change for their clients and communities. Reach out to your networks and community members to find the partner group. You can also look for specific lawyers.

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Women Rise Up Against War: Rae Abileah of CODEPINK

Have Fun - Do Good

To celebrate the first day, and hopefully prevent the recurrence of the second, here is an e-interview with Rae Abileah, the Local Groups Coordinator of CODEPINK. What do you do as the Local Groups Coordinator? Check out our local spotlight with great action photos on our site. March 20th is the 4th anniversary of the Iraq War.

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