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Crisis Lessons Learned When My Apartment Building Was on Fire

Care2

(If they are one of my neighbors, they’ll be standing outside trying to console a very stressed, worried, and freaked out guinea pig.) The Hidden Impact of Crisis. Remember that your crisis has a larger impact than you immediately realize. The way you respond to crisis will impact the entire sector’s reputation.

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Starting a Recurring Giving Program: Tips from the Major Hospital Foundation

Connection Cafe

It enables people to make a meaningful increase in their impact on an organization that they care about without feeling a big impact in their checkbooks. Ask if they will be guinea pigs for the program and be honest about your purpose. Their positive impact on our mission is stressed. H: Happy Dance/Hear.

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How to Predict What You’ll Raise by Year-End

NonProfit Hub

Start by clearly defining your organization’s impact goal. For an animal rescue, how many dogs/cats/guinea pigs do you want to save? Where do all good things start? With the end in mind. What’s BIG difference does your nonprofit exist to make? What specifically do you want to accomplish before the end of this year?

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Reflections on the Science Center World Congress

Museum 2.0

The thread of difference ran through the conference--between the advancement of science in the north and south, between the needs of visitors in developed and undeveloped countries, between the relative impact of health and national politics on the way science is presented.

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

They made sure that we got to hear stories from some of these folks, but they put a face on what our impact would be if we gave. And they put a face there so I know this is making an impact for someone. So they do these every month, especially right now, and they have to 20 people or 40 people. I have a link here. It’s not a Bit.ly

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Some Africa Links

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

One of her special interests is the impact of non-Western powers on African development, such as China and India. I've found it the most frequent source of news on the current crisis in Guinea. Global Voices blogger Jennifer Brea has her own Afri-focused blog here. IRIN News Africa.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

And so I thought well, it seems like if we're going to actually change the human patterns that are so severely impacting our environment and communities around the world, maybe there are some other ways to do it.

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