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Tips to strengthen your volunteer program and empower member volunteers

Nimble AMS

R ead our blog to discover how PEAK Grantmaking empowered its member volunteers and strengthened its volunteer program. A nd learn volunteer empowerment strategies to try out at your organization! Enhance your volunteer program by offering perks to being a member volunteer. Mentor/Mentee program. Offer volunteer benefits.

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Women’s History Month: 11 Nonprofits That Are Advocating For Female Empowerment

Kindful

Mission: Girls Write Nashville is a nonprofit songwriting mentorship program based in Nashville, TN, that cultivates empowered expression and positive community for teen girls. Impacting: Empowerment through music education. Learn more about Omaha Girls Rock. Girls Write Nashville. Headquarters in: Nashville, TN. Become a coach.

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Youth Programs

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Many foundations focus much of their philanthropy work on youth empowerment—and for good reason. The foundations on this list are just a few of the many that understand the importance that youth empowerment plays in helping young people from all backgrounds grow and excel during this critical stage of their life. Kellogg Foundation.

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Do Capacity Building Programs Help Nonprofits Achieve Better Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: My long-time colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director, Social Sector Accelerator, shares some thoughts about nonprofit capacity building programs based on extensive research. Her answer to the question about capacity building programs leading to better impact will surprise you. Who is defining results anyway?

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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

This is why service programs should be youth-led and youth-driven, she added. Rethinking youth service to maximize benefits If youth see service as a way to address polarization, uncertainty, and isolation and to create connections, purpose, and their vision of the world, it’s as important as ever that programs meet those needs.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

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. This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation.

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Changing lives through financial empowerment

ASU Lodestar Center

Kristen Coco , Program Developer. For the past six months I have worked with YWCA Maricopa County , expanding its Own It Financial Education program , which provides low-income women and families a free education teaching them how to become financially stable and independent. The answer lies in education. Like this article?