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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

The statistics on hunger in America are startling: 14.5% "Food insecurity" means that, at some point in the year, a household lacked access to enough nutritious food to support an "active, healthy life for all household members." Food Insecurity in a Land of Plenty. Department of Agriculture (USDA). That's 3.9

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Giving the Gift of Accessibility

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One donor made a special offer to our top volunteers, those who have provided at least 150 books to Bookshare: that they could request any one book and we'd (not they!) Our Volunteer Coordinator, Pavi Mehta, sent me this email last week and I thought it was definitely blog-worthy! I am so happy to be able to volunteer for bookshare.

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Another Model of Giving: Socially Responsible Small Businesses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Kids Against Hunger packages and ships highly nutritious, life-saving meals to starving and malnourished children in developing countries and the United States. They do this by mobilizing children, teens, and adults volunteers who, package the meals. Newman's Own is, of course, a great example of this model of giving.

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Simplifying nonprofit strategic planning for beginners 

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What services would make life better for your animals? Consider all the other areas your nonprofit will need to address like volunteers, Board development, and fundraising. Eradicating hunger in your community is not a goal. Serving as many teens as possible through your youth program is not a goal. It’s a vision.

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Kids and Kickstarter: The Rise of PhilanthroKids and Kid Crowdfunding!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. But giving, isn’t just about making a donation or volunteering your time. Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 It’s about engaging, participating, and being part of something bigger than yourself. Look out world!

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Stellar year-end fundraising strategies for busy nonprofit leaders

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Your plan will also make it easier to engage volunteers and Board members so you don’t have to shoulder the load alone. Here are some sample end-of-year fundraising campaign themes : Let’s Make Hunger History. Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. No one raises big money in reactive mode.

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