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Oregon Foundation looking for a Million Dollar Idea

Amy Sample Ward

We need to move beyond our customary categorical thinking and invite everybody – business, government, communities, organizations, individuals – to work together to address the issues we face before it’s too late.”. Meyer’s personal philanthropy and is not affiliated with Fred Meyer Inc., the retail enterprise.

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Happy Giving Tuesday: How Board Members Participate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The governance committee has done exceptional work and gone much deeper than the typical tasks of by-law wordsmithing or brainstorming lists of potential board members. There is also a Giving Story Contest for donors to share why they give and win a cash prize for the organization of their choice. Is your board participating?

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Your Cause Camp 2018 Lineup is Here

NonProfit Hub

Kishshana is a social-good matchmaker, non-profit consultant and your coveted insider on philanthropy, recruiting and retaining diverse talent and cultivating bright ideas for social good. He is a TEDx speaker and has previously won the Toastmasters UK & Ireland International Speech Contest. Julie Hirshey. philadelphiaeagles.com.

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Cause Camp 2017 Speaker Lineup Announcement

NonProfit Hub

.” In the last five years alone, Dan has given over 275 talks on philanthropy and innovation in 34 states and eight countries. This ongoing study has been cited in hundreds of publications, including Forbes, TIME, Fast Company, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He is a William J.

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What We Learned at 17NTC: Day 1

Tech Soup

James Rooney, senior manager of Microsoft Philanthropies, kicked off the first day's general session, highlighting the free cloud services available to nonprofits. The contest ends on April 24, 2017, so get those submissions in soon. Nonprofits Get Free Microsoft Azure Credits. You can enter to win on this site.

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Fight Digital Fatigue: 3 Tips for Nonprofit Communications

Achieve

Online contests or challenges. Incorporate contests or challenges into your annual social media posting calendar to generate organic engagement with your followers. Aly Sterling Philanthropy explains that you can send strategic communications to support your stewardship efforts after you’ve successfully cultivated new donors.

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