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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last winter, after Harry and I had a conversation about global warming (and quite a conversation it was for a then eight-year old), and we collaborated on a series of green videos. This new genre of video games are about solving real world problems such as environment, global hunger, poverty and disease.

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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. He told a story that someone in one of his workshops to teach these methods asked him, “So what are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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Forward Unto the Breach: Don’t Rest on Nonprofit Laurels

Bloomerang

If you’re not “ all signs point to go ,” it may be time to either hang up your shingle or look around and see what other problems you might address. Here are signs your work may be in the danger (red) or caution (yellow) zone, rather than full speed ahead (green) zone: Your budget has stayed the same for quite some time, or it has shrunk.

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User Experience: What Can Frank Lloyd Wright Teach Us?

Forum One

This meant that a segment of the vase stuck out, exposed to the elements, but the house ( Taliesin West ) is in Arizona, so the elements weren't really a problem. Incidentally, here's a lovely set of images of several Wright homes with brilliant green foliage as a backdrop. Does it work for users with usability problems/disabilities?

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Red Light, Green Light for Peer to Peer Fundraising in 2015

Connection Cafe

Here is Shana’s complete list of things to green light (start doing) and red light (stop doing) this year! Green Light: Embrace Your Complainers! Green Light: Bring IRL Back! Rededicate yourself to learning more about fundraising, or teaching your staff to be better fundraisers.

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Will Your Nonprofit Cease to Exist? Here’s What You Can Do to Make Sure That Doesn’t Happen

Bloomerang

Here are signs your nonprofit may be in the danger (red) or caution (yellow) zone, rather than the full speed ahead (green) zone: Your budget has stayed the same for quite some time or it has shrunk. There are ways to take the wonderful work you’re doing and expand your reach to teach more people, heal more people, and enrich more lives.

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Turning Waste into Beautiful Art

Tech Soup

The effects of waste accumulation often hurt the poorest members of society , and lead to serious health and environmental problems. Founded just four years ago, C3 has used the power of art to touch the lives of more than 250,000 people, while also teaching about the importance of getting creative about the issue of waste in America.

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