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Why I Do Good: Starry Night

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My mom had a variety of teaching and counseling positions while my dad worked mostly for nonprofits. and my second post, Why I Do Good: The Center and Agape. I was raised to serve. In addition to being very involved with our church community , my parents'' professional work was service-oriented.

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Why don’t we tell more stories in our fundraising messaging?

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I’m a huge history fan. Probably because I love a good story and history is just that – HIS Story or HER Story – one great long story of independence, sacrifice and success. Stories are also used teach us how to behave and how to grow up (something Peter Pan lacked). Wow… even Peter Pan knew the importance of stories.

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Choosing the Perfect Cause for Your Business Giving

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Is cancer more important than homelessness, child abuse a higher priority than infant mortality? Although there could be nonprofits that teach kids this skill, you could also take the approach of saying “we’re going to give to nonprofits that have marketing needs like those we fulfill as a business.” Again, there is no right answer.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

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. We also need other organizations to lead by teaching us how to communicate, others to lead by creating models of analysis and measurement, and so on.

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The Ultimate Guide to Volunteer Recruitment: 15+ Strategies

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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

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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

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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.