Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Amanda believes in collaboration, empowerment, trust and wicked-good customer service. Benefactor Group is currently working with arts, culture, and educational institutions; human service organizations; the faith community; and others working to improve the quality of life. She has loved every minute of it.

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Media Cause

JUNE 29, 2022

What figure in pop culture did you look up to as a kid? It felt difficult to incorporate queer culture into my life so late in college, but that didn’t even matter—I was just so happy to understand myself and my history more. What figure in pop culture did you look up to as a kid? Matilda + Ms. Nate Pressler.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

This is a cultural shift that involves everyone; nonprofit leaders and staff, board members, volunteers, donors, foundation leaders, members of the public and others. According to the Center for Evaluation Innovation’s “Lab for Learning” initiative , “make thinking visible” to cultivate a learning culture.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. Staff who know the program, the people, and the culture well. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Peter has defined the vision, strategy, and culture of 829 Studios since its founding in 2007. Her experience includes 8+ years of Marketing, Communication, and Program Management for organizations working on issues such as poverty, financial literacy, voter engagement, health research, and the public arts.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 30, 2022

In a 2021 survey by NonprofitHR , more than a third of those surveyed (35%) said they left their jobs due to dissatisfaction or disengagement with the current organization or culture. A recent Harvard Business Review article on this topic says that “empowerment, engagement, and planning are critical. Why are people leaving their jobs?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2019

According to recent findings, nonprofit organizations can capitalize on training, building a culture of empowerment and recognition programs in order to provide incentives to employees. With the shifting mix of workers in the US, the millennial generation is making up more of organizations’ new hires.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is really inspiring to see philanthropic and nonprofit professional engaging in public conversations about these challenges, and even more inspiring to see them taking action to create positive changes. Philanthropy Reconsidered: Private Initiatives – Public Good – Quality of Life. Evaluating a Culture.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

While art, history, creativity, and culture are the vehicles for that empowerment, the teens involved spend a lot of their time with activists, civic leaders, and social psychologists. It''s about empowerment and community leadership through art and history. Subjects to Change isn''t an art club or a history group.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Our goal is to help civic and cultural institutions become more representative OF, co-created BY, and welcoming FOR their diverse communities. The First Wave includes 6 museums, 5 performing arts organizations, 3 public libraries, 3 parks, and 3 community centers. How do you build a movement for institutional change?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It has been almost three weeks since we concluded bbcon 2018 in Orlando, and we’re still wrapping our head around the terrific content seen and inspiring conversations overheard amongst over 2,000 attendees from across the social, private and public sectors. Foster a data culture, and a testing culture . Know your audience .

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Given the difficulty in unpacking all of the socio-economic, cultural, political, educational, and other mutually-reinforcing components of digital inequality, simple metaphors can't carry the weight. Or, less monster-centric, we may simply lack the requisite know-how to build a bridge that works.). Money, it's a drag. What Can We Do, Then?

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

Following the summit, we attended an Entrepreneurship and Public Diplomacy Luncheon which brought together Muslims and Arabs with officials from the U.S. Online tools can greatly assist with collaboration, cultural education and developing business ideas. Department of State and Rashad Hussain , the U.S.

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Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2012

American Indian Resource Center’s mission is to develop culturally appropriate resources to meet the needs of Native American communities in the areas of education, health, and social services. I had a chance to chat with Heather Hale who is their web and publications director, and primary IT person in the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Close the circle with thank yous, public acknowledgement, and light touches that aren’t asks. NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. and one of the most highly anticipated cultural events in the nation. Designate a cheer leader.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

" The organization serves refugee and immigrant survivors of human rights abuses with a team that speaks 25 different languages to meet the cultural and linguistic needs of Mosaic's clients. Empowerment, Shelter, and Support. In October, Mosaic launched 31 Days, 31 Advocates to support Domestic Violence Awareness month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy. Open spaces like the Internet are always going to be about empowerment and you need to have tolerance. Doing the Impossible in Virtual Worlds by Doug Thomas from USC Center on Public Diplomacy. What's your advice?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

By slowing down and making a piece of art for someone, we provide a personal connection to the issues and to individuals and create opportunities to see our commonalities despite geographic or cultural borders. Connecting personal wisdom to effect positive change is our goal.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

Practically, what this means is that the principle component of our program is a Community Health Action Committee (CHAG), responsible for designing, implementing, and evaluating their own public health and social development projects. But I love Mali, and particularly the communality and generosity evident in Malian culture.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

Created by the Center for Asian American Media, this game hopes to empower young girls, ages 8 - 14, to look past the aspects of life that seem to be male dominated and learn something about themselves and environmental awareness, cross-cultural engagement, team work, and gender equality. JURY FEEDBACK. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement. Convergence of Social Health Media With Youth Culture. The convergence of click-and-mortar youth culture trends, coupled with Search2.0 The convergence of click-and-mortar youth culture trends, coupled with Search2.0

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 8, 2022

Through projects focused on communication and education, youth empowerment, direct action, research, and material science, we create success stories that set new standards and provide the roadmaps for others to follow. In 1998 he created a method called Cross Intelligence, which brings a culture of collaboration to major organizations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. She has been named a Haas Public Service Fellow at Stanford, a Top 10 College Woman by Glamour Magazine , and a Person You Should Know by CNN.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

Founded in 1990, the Women of Color Resource Center promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well-being of women and girls of color. She has co-authored publications on fair taxation, housing and the racial wealth divide. You can always buy our publications, read them and disseminate them. Little by little.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 2, 2018

MeToo was meant to be a movement that provides “empowerment through empathy” to survivors of sexual abuse, assault, exploitation and harassment, especially those in underprivileged communities. Here are our picks for the best nonprofit social media campaigns of 2017 and a little bit about what made each one stand out. Partnerships matter!

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

I’ll say at the beginning of the pandemic, there were so many stories of friends and family who were being like go, that there was a culture of uncertainty and through this whole last year, there’s been a period of navigating through uncertainty, which I think is challenging overall. Mimosa: Absolutely.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Serving as a geographical and cultural bridge between Europe and the Middle East, Turkey is a country that shares borders with both Syria and Iraq (not to mention another six * countries). Image 2 : Wikimedia / Public Domain. Addressing Complex Challenges. Image 1 : Taehyun Kim / CC BY-NC-ND. Image 3 : starkart.org / CC BY-NC-SA.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

For funders, nonprofits, and institutions across industries to effectively participate in the global movement to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty, they must first transform internal organizational culture and capacity to advance access, equity, and justice. Disrupt Power Imbalances.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Lambda Legal Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization whose mission is to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work. Donate | Take Action | Twitter | Facebook. Emerge America.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Redefining Philanthropy - Dwayne Rice Build a Salesforce application to facilitate a culture of philanthropy around education reform by providing a platform to track constituent engagement to lead people up the engagement ladder. Design solutions for collaboration, empowerment, global views, and self awareness.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. The little girls are part of a culture, the Shona culture in Zimbabwe, as maybe you know, uses poetry. People write poems, and stand and recite them in public meetings. And, their weapon is poetry.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

The first couple days in Cambodia we learned about the culture, which was very important, but also very challenging for the participants. As a result, you have a culture of post-traumatic stress disorder. We spent the first few days really understanding the culture. We brought in survivors of the genocide. It was so fun.

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