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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. Emphasis was placed on making information actionable, accessible, and bite-sized to fit into the lifestyle of a small-scale farmer.

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Four Tips to Help Nonprofit Marketing Departments Create a Culture of Philanthropy

Connection Cafe

Even worse, they don’t appear to be speaking the language and may work as isolated islands instead of finding ways to build bridges together to cultivate and engage supporters and do it with common values, culture, vocabulary, and practices. Shifting the organization’s culture is a process, and it takes time. Business guru Peter F.

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

Museum 2.0

I''ve never worked in such a supportive, energized, active environment. They aren''t intended to force fit our work to aspirational language; instead, they are intended to make transparent that which is existing but ephemeral. Of course, space-making works when you respect your colleagues and know they can do killer work. She is right.

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The language we use

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The language we use September 6, 2006 I came across, in my catching up period, an article titled " Ten ways to change the world with Web 2.0 Are there actually really any fewer homeless people?

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Philanthropy needs to change, but what can be done in fundraising for equity now?

ASU Lodestar Center

Yet, while this fundamental system change in philanthropy takes place, what can fundraisers do now to fundraise from an equity lens to encourage this change? Use inclusive language and person-first language in donor and community communications. Have hard conversations with donors about their expectations and biases.

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

Have Fun - Do Good

Almost never do they receive healthcare benefits or vacation time and oftentimes, have to work in incredibly oppressive environments. Steve Williams: I think for me one of the things that motivates me is the idea that the world can be a better place. Britt Bravo: What brought you to this work. I was somewhat lazy in doing that work.

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A Better Way to Do Good: The Case for Comprehensive Community Care

Non Profit Quarterly

Sadly, this portrayal of poverty, homelessness, and frustration while seeking help is an honest one. We must leverage automation and analytics to make better and faster decisions and, above all, use these tools to address the whole person in a complex environment instead of playing an endless game of whack-a-mole as each new emergency arises.