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Utah Pride Center: Unite, Empower, Celebrate

DipJar

To learn more about Utah Pride and to hear about the role DipJar has played in supporting this momentum, we sat down with Kevin Randall, the communications director for the Utah Pride Center’s Pride Festival. At any given time, more than 300 people are receiving direct services through Utah Pride.

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AFP ICON 2023 Recap

Qgiv

Increased satisfaction, retention, and dollars raised because donors felt more positive about their giving experience. One private school set a reasonable goal of $4,000 to help raise relief funds for the earthquakes in Syria. The outcome? They also uncovered how “It’s not about how we talk to them. It’s a conversation.

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Bigger is always better…(Except when it’s not!)

ASU Lodestar Center

She really only needed volunteers to help her raise money, anyway. By having more local leaders she would increase not only total funds to her organization, but higher visibility as well. Indeed, the large board presented a tempting option for Courtney. However, part of the attraction of this arrangement also creates a hazard.

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Symantec Gives Back

Tech Soup

In Lindon, Utah, 50 employee volunteers planted trees that Symantec donated to TreeUtah using its local Community Outreach funds. The trees were planted around parking lots owned by the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in order to cool the parking lots (which become mini "heat islands.

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Boosting Arizona's Philanthropic Resources

ASU Lodestar Center

Only two of the ten most generous states (Utah and Arkansas) had higher state and local tax burdens than Arizona. A third would be to encourage the state government to explore the use of Social Impact Bonds or Pay-for-Performance Bonds to raise additional investment capital for nonprofits that can prove impact.

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The Bold, Focused Ideas of Breakthrough Nonprofit Brands: Book Giveaway Winners Announced

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My business supports an organisation called Entoure in Australia who stages challenging events to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for critically injured kids. Fund for UNICEF Volunteer, “Be brave, bold and bigger than the whole organization – that’s what breakthrough brands do.

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Elevating Advocacy Voices for Children Through Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Utah’s tourism slogan captures the physical wonders of our state, which has some of the best skiing, highest deserts and deepest canyons in the world. Unofficially, we’re known as “family-friendly” or “a good place to raise your kids,” and we can back that up, too. Utah is dead last in the nation for education funding per pupil.

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