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Respectful Revolution's Video Portrait of My Do-Good Dad: Tom Aageson, Co-Founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship

Have Fun - Do Good

He is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship , founded a program for homeless veterans in conjunction with the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness , and is involved with Santa Fe for Students / Communities In Schools of New Mexico. And that''s only in the last 10 years.

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A Hearty Congratulations to TechSoup Members Winning Google Impact Challenge Awards

Tech Soup

Students develop and run a business, gain confidence, academic support, and mentorship. Beyond 12 is developing the next generation of MyCoach, a mobile app that helps low-income students navigate the path to college and stay on track once they arrive, significantly enhancing graduation rates.

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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. Amanda Levinson of NetSquared Burlington put together a Storify page to document the weekend's events. Another interesting concept was a mobile tech shop for homeless shelters. Leonard Library.

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Write Your Nonprofit Business Plan in 9 Sections

Get Fully Funded

Because this section of your nonprofit business plan is a summary of the facts contained throughout the whole document, it is often written last. This section provides detailed descriptions and documentation of how you meet needs in your community. Do you have volunteer tutors who can help students who are homeless with their work?

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NTC Day of Service: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year, conference attendees hooked up with local volunteers to help out 34 local nonprofits, including the Center for Community Change , the Genocide Intervention Network , National Student Partnerships , and Wilderness Technology Alliance. I've been thinking a lot about the use of video as an evaluation or documentation tool.

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Reader Appreciation Day: Beth's Big Give - Congrats to Epic Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It would have been really hard for me to pick so I used random number generator to pick the winner and the process of selecting the winner is documented here - in case you want to borrow the idea for creating a "Big Give" of your own. There were 11 wonderful organizations suggested by my readers. Suggested by Kare.

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Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

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telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. org, and five Unity College students embarked on a bio-diesel powered road trip to encourage President Obama to restore solar paneling to the White House roof. Recruiting applicants to a fellowship program. Trail-blazing Road Warriors.