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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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I had an exceptionally knowledgeable mentor who ran an office engaged in multiple types of fundraising activities: endowment (major gifts), special project fundraising (grant writing), annual fund (with a corporate slant), membership, database administration, special events, and volunteer management. My mind was a sponge.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

LinkedIn also encourages nonprofit to post job descriptions for skilled volunteers and especially working with one of their partners: Catchafire , NPower’s Community Corps , Taproot Foundation and VolunteerMatch. The team works on a practical project that take less than four weeks to complete.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd and How To Find Them!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students. Leap of Reason offers toolkits for boards, nonprofits, and foundations on “do it yourself” outcomes based measurement.

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Cause Camp 2017 Speaker Lineup Announcement

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And hundreds of top mentors contributed to what’s rattling around in his head. Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media,” Beth was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013. It taught him to respect research.

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A Tale of Two Angels

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Sheldon is an amazing guy: a Silicon Valley serial inventor and entrepreneur who’s known as the Indiana Jones of geophysics. He argued that I could have a bigger impact on the world by mentoring new social entrepreneurs, finding resources for them and helping them avoid the pitfalls I had experienced.

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Donors and “Marchers”: Build an Equitable Following With Major and Small Donors

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For the past 26 years, she has contributed organizational and individual value as a thought leader, manager, author, mentor, coach and consultant throughout the United States, and in selected projects in Africa and Central America. Ellen Bristol is renowned for her expertise in managing fundraising strategy and operations.

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