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Melissa Weisse, CFRE, ACFRE Earns Highest Professional Credential from AFP

NonProfit PRO

The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), has awarded its highest professional certification, the Advanced Certified Fundraising Executive (ACFRE), to Melissa Weisse, CFRE, ACFRE of Detroit, Michigan.

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Getting Forward to Normal: A Bump in the Road for Monthly Giving

NonProfit PRO

For the past decade, only two things were certain every year: The Detroit Lions (my wife's favorite team) were not going to win a playoff game and digital monthly giving was going to increase by more than digital one-time giving. It was inevitable.

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One Small Step for Detroit, One Giant Leap for Museum Ethics (Maybe)

Museum 2.0

Over the past three years, the Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) has served as the museum poster child for the debate on the public value of the arts. And now, in the past month, Michigan''s Attorney General and State Senate have blocked the emergency manager of Detroit from seizing the DIA''s collection to pay off the city''s debt.

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13 of the Best Nonprofit Videos from the Last 13 Years

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Hey Detroit. Hollywood Declares Themselves. The world has changed. You can too. World Wildlife Fund Canada. Global Night Commute: I Got Soul. Invisible Children. Natural Resources Defense Council.

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The Public Argument About Arts Support as Seen through the Lens of the Detroit Institute of Arts

Museum 2.0

Earlier this month, the Detroit Institute of Arts was "saved" by a voter-approved property tax (called a "millage") in its three surrounding counties. As one Detroit Free Press commenter wrote: "You are not getting it. Several Detroit comments were in this vein. This perspective was rampant in Michigan.

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4 Ways to Increase Intra-Organization Equity in Nonprofit Tech

Saleforce Nonprofit

During the Week of Learning in October 2021, Jessica Hauser, executive director at DBG Detroit , and Makeda Keegan, president of Amplify , came together to discuss equity within nonprofit organizations and the role that technology plays in organizational dynamics. Take A Courageous Pause. Reflect On Feedback.

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Ministers learn to compete | The Detroit News

AFP Blog

Ministers learn to compete | The Detroit News : hey need to understand organizational leadership: how to create a mission statement, set goals and measure whether they’ve achieved those goals — skills typically taught in masters of business administration programs, not seminaries.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Miami, Detroit, the New York City metro/New Jersey area, the San Francisco Bay Area, Philadelphia, and Boston. Focused on restaurant recovery and entrepreneurship, the Grants for Growth program will award $10,000 to a hundred businesses on Uber Eats in ten U.S. cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., January 12, 2022.

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More than $100,000 in free technology up for grabs for local nonprofits | Crain's Detroit Business

AFP Blog

More than $100,000 in free technology up for grabs for local nonprofits | Crain's Detroit Business

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Youth Programs

Kindful

They believe that by “placing children at the center of this movement, their well-being becomes the focus of their collective work, and with it comes higher achieving students, highly-engaged young people, and a brighter future for Detroit.” Areas served: Detroit/Michigan. Check out their current funding opportunities.

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Eight tips for funders to help grantseekers navigate your website?

Candid

For example, “grants are currently being offered to nonprofits in Detroit, Michigan in the areas of health, education, family services, sports, and community improvement”. . If you have multiple grant programs on your website, list them with a short description for each. Also, do you make grants to individuals?

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How Game On Cancer Cracked the Code on Engaging Physicians and Cancer Survivors

Connection Cafe

In partnership with the Detroit Lions and the Detroit Pistons, Game On Cancer is a year-round campaign that has successfully raised over $5 million in 5 years – 100% of which has been dedicated to that mission. . The physicians were nominated by leadership at the Henry Ford Cancer Institute and the Detroit Lions.

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22 Must-Circle Nonprofits on Google+

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Detroit Symphony Orchestra. More on that in my upcoming Google+ and Google Products for Nonprofits Webinar on February 28. Acción contra el Hambre. Amazon CARES. American Prairie Foundation. Amnesty International Australia. Children’s National Medical Center. The Field Museum. GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation).

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A Social Change Army is Amassing

Social Velocity

Maybe there is an environmental activist working in Antarctica, a teacher creating inspiration in a corner of Detroit, a Russian diplomat attempting to redirect Putin’s insanity, or an artist in Boston bringing joy to her neighborhood. Their social change visions vary widely, and likely they don’t even use that terminology.

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Nonprofits and App Developers Combine Forces for Community Change

Tech Soup Blog

Of all the projects presented, the Detroit Water Project might be the most well-known. And there's good reason: the Detroit Water Project helps match families who need help with their water bills to donors by using utility data from the city of Detroit. The project has been able to help 900 families pay their water bills.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

By placing children at the center of this movement, their well-being becomes the focus of their collective work, and with it comes higher achieving students, highly engaged young people, and a brighter future for Detroit. Areas served: Detroit/Michigan. Oregon Community Foundation.

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Storymakers 2016 Winners

Tech Soup Blog

Our Best Video winner hails from the proud city of Detroit and is the unanimous top choice. Learning to Improvise Can be Life-Changing , from The Detroit Creativity Project , demonstrates the highest level of technical production and takes the audience on a stirring, heartfelt journey into Detroit's schools.

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Working Towards a Common Global Goal: How Your Nonprofit Can Align with the SDGs

Media Cause

Or what about major cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, or Detroit? Why can’t large corporations also get on board with global goals? Why can’t those with revenues bigger than most countries plug into this larger humanitarian goal? Every Mayor has so much power to also look at the SDGs as a common goal on the city level.

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8 Apps That May (Actually) Change San Francisco

Tech Soup Blog

This project began as a Code for America project in Detroit. Prashant and his co-founders identified a need for local data about buildings and real estate in Detroit and discovered that the city was under-resourced when it came to the technical tools needed to collect it.

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Pollination Project: $1,000 seed grants to individual change makers

Have Fun - Do Good

Adam Sugalski , CircusProtest.com @CircusProtest Adela Raffa , Women in AWE, Bread for the Journey, Atlanta @BFJ_Intl Carolyn Mullin , National Museum of Animals and Society Oral History Project @AnimalMuseum Chloe Falkenheim , Youth Vegetarian Alliance Dana Mahon , Child’s Pose Yoga Elizabeth Rider , International Charter for Human Values in Healthcare (..)

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Bloomerang

Paul, Detroit, Akron, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Macon, Miami. They fund artists and arts organizations that create, present, and provide access to artistic excellence and inspire engagement. Their investments focus on authenticity/inclusion, transformation, and the development of talent and organizations. Areas served: San Jose, St.

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Great reads from around the web on August 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

" Library Value Calculator | Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library – I love this! What a terrific way to help tell the story of your impact in the community – I can see something similar working for all kinds of organizations, schools, and more. "The

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Member Round Up: Corn Dogs! Interactive Maps!

NTEN

GOOD Maker, in a partnership with NTEN, announced Detroit's Green Economy Leadership Training (Solidarity) winner of their Use Technology for Good challenge. Solidarity 's winning idea, 'Off Grid Solar System for an Urban Farm', will use the grant to install a solar energy system at Food Field, a four-acre organic, urban farm in Detroit.

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3 Strategies for Effective Nonprofit E-Learning

The Nerdy NonProfit

She currently serves on the board of ATD Detroit. Before working with Artisan, Amy spent 17 years in corporate training and development predominantly teaching leadership development and coaching teams and executives. The post 3 Strategies for Effective Nonprofit E-Learning appeared first on The Nerdy Nonprofit.

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The Marriage of Art and Technology - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

AFP Blog

The eight inclusive museums include San Francisco’s de Young Museum, Seattle Art Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, San Diego Air and Space Museum, San Diego Museum of Man, San Jose’s Computer History Museum, and the University of South Dakota’s Natural History Museum.

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A Low Tech Version of Providing the Self-Organizing Platform for Movement Building

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We were are all leaving Detroit at different times and the taxi to the airport wasn't exactly cheap. Last week I was in Michigan to do a training for Chapter Leaders of EPIP.

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Need Hands-on Help? NetSquared's Free Workshops Are in Your Community

Tech Soup Blog

Detroit, Michigan: SeeClickFix Summer Workshop. Detroit, Michigan: SeeClickFix Summer Workshop. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels and Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. New York, New York: Board Match New York 2017. Thursday, June 8, 2017.

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Things We Like (May 2015)

NTEN

Activists used over 4,000 flowers to help Detroit reflect on the experience and place of abandoned homes. Walidah Imarisha answers the question, “ Why Aren’t There More Black People in Oregon? ” in this video. This space reserved for your own reflection of historic racism in your city and region.]

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Instead of Selling Objects, Build Public Trust

Museum 2.0

When Detroit was going bankrupt in 2013, the city's emergency manager fought to sell off some of the prized artworks in the Detroit Institute of Art. Two years ago, the Detroit Institute of Art won the battle to keep their treasured artwork in the museum. And once that happens, all bets are off.

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5 Easy Rules to Remember When Telling Digital Stories

Tech Soup Blog

He has been active in the industry for over 20 years and is the founder and president of MacGroup-Detroit, Michigan's largest Macintosh users group. In his current position, he leads the charge of getting customers excited and educated about Adobe's Creative Suite Design Premium products.

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Using Software and Data to Change the World

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I had the honor to be the opening keynoter for the first-ever Good Tech Fest , which was held in Detroit on May 22, 2018. It was a blast to be with an entire conference full of social good software and data people from around the world. Using Software and Data to Change the World We are in an amazing time.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Kindful

Paul, Detroit, Akron, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Macon, Miami. They fund artists and arts organizations that create, present, and provide access to artistic excellence and inspire engagement. Their investments focus on authenticity/inclusion, transformation, and the development of talent and organizations. Areas served: San Jose, St.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Kevin Boyle, a professor of history at Ohio State University, won the nonfiction prize for "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age," is a 1920s courtroom drama about the murder trial of Dr. Ossian Sweet, who purchased a house in an all white neighborhood in Detroit with some serious consequences.

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Summer Conference Roundup (June - August 2012)

Care2

Association of Alternative Newsmedia Convention Detroit, MI. Eric Rardin Ashley Hansen. League of Conservation Voters Capital Dinner Washington, DC. Clint O'Brien Eric Rardin. Clint O'Brien. Revenue Generation Partnerships with Care2" 6/7 4:00pm. Netroots Nation Providence, RI. Jun 7 - 10. Steve Johnston Stephanie Johnston.

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Six Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Nonprofit Website

ASU Lodestar Center

Chris has also been seen in The Associated Press and Crain's Detroit Business. He is in digital marketing and has over eight years of experience. His focus is on search engine optimization.

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Fund-Raising Challenge Raises Money for Arts Groups -- and Ire - Philanthropy.com

AFP Blog

million for Detroit-area cultural groups — but not without technical difficulties and some angry donors, reports the Detroit Free Press.The Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan put up $1-million.

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How can nonprofits effectively implement revenue diversification?

ASU Lodestar Center

A look at budget trends of metro detroit social service agencies. Nonprofit Finance Fund (2015). 2015 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey. New York: Nonprofit Finance Fund. Leroux, K. What drives nonprofit entrepreneurship? The American Review of Public Administration, 35(4), 350-362. Harrison, T., & & Thornton, J.

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Six Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Nonprofit Website

ASU Lodestar Center

Chris has also been seen in The Associated Press and Crain's Detroit Business. He is in digital marketing and has over eight years of experience. His focus is on search engine optimization.

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Open Thread: How Does Your Institution Say Happy New Year?

Museum 2.0

This year, I've seen everything from heartfelt solicitations ( Young Playwrights Theater ) to surreal pop culture singalongs ( MCA Denver ) to impressively-produced, collaborative, yet poignant pop culture singalongs ( Detroit Science Center , which closed one month after this video was released).

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How to Better Choose the World's Most Innovative Nonprofits

Tech Soup Blog

Fast Company's nonprofit innovators list included: The Foundation for Detroit's Future — For saving a city and its art. Unfortunately, it seems to have done pretty much that when it forayed into The World's 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in Not-for-Profit. Which Organizations Made the Grade?