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Why I Do Good: Starry Night

Have Fun - Do Good

I don''t usually share personal stories here on Have Fun, Do Good, and I''m not sure where this is going, but I''m giving it a whirl. My mom had a variety of teaching and counseling positions while my dad worked mostly for nonprofits. I''m exploring the roots of my desire/need/compulsion to "do good." I was raised to serve.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

We have the very fun chance to put pieces together and connect dots that others aren’t seeing. Maybe you’re a homeless shelter, and you want to partner with a shelter on the other side of town to better track and understand the community experiencing homelessness in your city. Have people heard of 350.org org before?

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The Ultimate Guide to Volunteer Recruitment: 15+ Strategies

Qgiv

Here are a few tasks you might want to turn over to volunteers or recruit more volunteers for: Day-to-day office work or cleaning Door greeter roles Docent positions Event committee positions Event registration and ticketing Event set-up and clean-up In-kind donations collection Marketing and promotion tasks Fundraising tasks Teaching or tutoring.

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

Have Fun - Do Good

Just from my understanding of history and my understanding of politics, the best way of actually being able to improve the living conditions of low income, oppressed people is for those people to come together and take their destinies into their own hands. Britt Bravo: Have you always done this kind of work? I was hooked from that moment on.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. Then, I moved into the world of teaching. It is a much more complex and nuanced history.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, now is the fun part. Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

But we’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so, for sure. And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” We’ve been teaching a lot recently.

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