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September Cause Awareness: National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

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September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Keep reading to learn more about National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and ways you can acknowledge and observe this important cause. Keep reading to learn more about National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and ways you can acknowledge and observe this important cause.

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Workforce development for the nonprofit tech professionals of the future: It will be a consortium, not a building with a dome!

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

It’s been about a year and a half since I starting agitating for a Massachusetts Institute of Nonprofit Technology , an initiative that will kick off by training the nonprofit data analysts of the future. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology can rest easy, without fear of competition, or brand encroachment.)

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Youth Programs

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National Park Trust. National Park Trust. The Highland Street Foundation is committed to addressing the most pressing needs and concerns for children and families in Massachusetts and California. Areas served: Massachusetts, California. Funding Priority: Youth Programs. Global Fund for Children. Kellogg Foundation.

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New Technology Developed to Amplify Community Voices for the Media

Non Profit Quarterly

As previously reported by NPQ , local nonprofit news sources have struggled to attract foundation and big donor dollars, which are concentrated on a few larger national organizations. A conversation host sits with selected members of a community and guides a conversation about important local issues. Julie Euber.

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HOW TO: Tap into the Power of Cause Awareness Days

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Many of the international days are sanctioned by the United Nations. In addition there are also popular awareness days that are national and local (search“awareness days”). Consider hosting a tweet chat, Google+ Hangout, or webinar on the day of the campaign. Many nonprofits already participate in cause awareness day campaigns.

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Online Discussion on June 23: Using Social Networks to Promote Good Causes

Robert Weiner

This Tuesday The Chronicle of Philanthropy will host another free online discussion about how nonprofits can use social media. Previously she worked for the Future of Music Coalition and was a law clerk at Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Massachusetts.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

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Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Image by the National Braille Press, a DIAGRAM subcontract. We’d love to meet you there!

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