NetWits

JUNE 30, 2011

I volunteer with a small nonprofit called Fields to Families. You don’t relate your work back to the life of your supporter. What impact will it have on their life?” – Naomi Hamilton. We work with local farmers to distribute excess produce to families in need. Brilliant, right? Have you grabbed your credit card yet?

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Everyaction

MAY 29, 2018

With over 750 affiliate agencies across the state of Wisconsin, Feeding Wisconsin is dedicated to eradicating hunger and improving their community. Our mission is to help our food banks as well as our partners and stakeholders fight hunger and improve health and strengthen communities.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Being a Caltech freshman makes you confident for the rest of your life: if someone cannot explain something to you, that means that they really don’t understand it! The first lecture I heard as a freshman at Caltech was delivered by Feynman on the topic of liquid helium three, and I was certain he did understand the topic!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

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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NTEN

JULY 8, 2014

Congratulations to Community Technology Network (CTN) , who won the Volunteer Center’s Excellence in Nonprofit Volunteer Management Award. Turns out, there''s parallels in the fictional series to real-life emergency response. Want to combat childhood hunger? What does "online engagement" really mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

I started my  Day of Service experience at Friendship Public Charter School  at the Southeast Elementary Academy  in the school cafeteri where volunteers were hard at work painting two murals.     I also talked to the volunteers about why they were so passionate about the issue of ending childhood hunger.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

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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Connection Cafe

JUNE 23, 2016

Stories like: A candid testimony of an nonprofit’s impact on a real person’s life. A volunteer sharing how investments of time became the fruits of change in their community. 7 Feeding America: “Four faces of Hunger” (website). You know you’ve got these stories, but are you telling them?

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

When you have a strong grasp of your audience’s motivations, you can increase donations, volunteer hours, advocacy actions, and the overall public opinion of your nonprofit. For nonprofit organizations, in particular, this research is used to understand the priorities of their donors, volunteers, grant-making organizations, and so forth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2008

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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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2021

Encourage employees to keep an organized work space, separate from their home life so they can detach. Invite food banks and community gardens that are looking to eradicate hunger through healthy options! Reward those shares! Engage friendly competition! The best work space set-ups, plant gardens, and desk innovations get a reward!

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

For example, if your organization is fundraising to end world hunger, relevant images could include recipients of your aid, food that you sent, and volunteers on site serving food. On the contrary, using various fonts can bring your image to life and emphasize the most important aspects of your flyer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Howard Gardner has dedicated his life work to this Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Yet, many conference panels are designed to accommodate only one or two styles of learning and go shallow instead of going deep. As many trainers and teachers already know, people have different learning styles.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

Her team raises funds to help secure and distribute more than 200M meals annually for families struggling with hunger. Prior to joining Care2, Ashley spent 10 years at the Student Conservation Association (SCA) where she helped hundreds of young people volunteer on public lands and start careers in conservation.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 5, 2022

With help from Salesforce pro bono volunteers and partner ArganoKeste, they found a way. Around the same time as Salesforce volunteers got to work on a solution, Howard Moore, the CEO of ArganoKeste, reached out to Crossroads to ask where he and his organization could help. My life has improved with this app.” At A Crossroads.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The European Court of Justice has taken a landmark decision to reverse this fact of modern life. It also allows individuals to log into the app and see which charities close by need either financial or volunteer help. An App To End World Hunger? How this will move the needle on world hunger?

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Check out TechSoup's Nonprofits in Second Life Delicious group page for an example of how multiple users can collaborate with social bookmarking. Tagging is not only a tool for archiving and locating online resources, it can also be used to collaborate with your volunteers and other like-minded organizations and even for fundraising.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Information Volunteer. If you work for a nonprofit, there’s a good chance that you’re working on a tough problem like the achievement gap, homelessness, or global hunger. Peter Bonanno, M.Ed. for State Expansion. MindUp Program The Hawn Foundation. Paula couldn’t figure out why things had stopped running smoothly.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2016

Do you have a volunteer staff or committee? Volunteers / committee available. Walk for Hunger. American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. Before beginning your P2P fundraising campaign, identify your available resources. Will you be running this campaign by yourself? Select Your Campaign Type. The Pan-Mass Challenge.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

You have to put in the work all year round if you and your honey are going to live the good life. Applies to volunteers, advocates and donors (although there might be some privacy issues to understand). They have a hunger to make a connection – they have a hunger to make a connection with you. Recognize them!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Yes, the Frozen Pea Fund was mostly my doing, with the help of some great volunteers I recruited. Recently we set up an office in Second Life, on the Nonprofit Commons Plush island, and we just purchased our own island in Second Life. What didn???t The social media community in Austin is very active in worthwhile causes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

The Mission Continues thoughtfully shares the stories of former military servicemen and women who volunteer with the organization across its channels, including the story of Dustin Bird, a Marine Corps veteran who finds purpose and strength in partnering with the organization. The Mission Continues: Dustin’s Story. Facebook and Instagram.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 11, 2007

The HPI is calculated by adding the country's life expectancy with its life satisfaction divided by its ecological footprint. He's creating a network of volunteer doctors who'll regularly visit families in poorer neighborhoods. He's fighting hunger. The top ranked countries were: 1. Colombia 3. Costa Rica 4. Dominica 5.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

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. Involve a variety of stakeholders including Board, staff, volunteer, and the community you serve.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Sometimes it’s a matter of zeroing in on a single aspect of your organization’s work or an unexpected story, such as two volunteers falling in love while serving soup side-by-side in the homeless shelter’s kitchen. Brainstorm story angles with your Board, staff, and volunteers. Be consistent. Just make sure it’s a good story.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

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. No one raises big money in reactive mode. Speaking of Board members, be sure to include them in your plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

There is a growing recognition, that personal success is not about solely about making a lot of money, but also giving it to charity as Ariana Huffington points out in Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

If you all don’t know Jen, I don’t know what you’re doing with your life. But here is the catch, the more optimistic part of me say, “You know what, if one person can love that one person who has hurt the most in their life, then understanding people loving people is probably quite enough a job to figure out.”

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Because it’s not just about the issue, because let’s say you’re helping with hunger relief, well, there might be 10 organizations in your community helping with hunger relief. And you know, if they volunteer a lot, and, you know, we’ve gotten some great shots of them. that’s just life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

2) Can you tell me about the "Pledge to End Hunger" that you recently launched to benefit Share Our Strength? We wanted this campaign to focus on the issue of childhood hunger in America and the fact that many different organizations and people were coming together to take up the cause locally and nationally. Charles, Missouri.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2010

I think it's part of what life is about, as a human being, visualizing those things, then finding the ways to make them actually come into being and to live that life." She is a professional chef, passionate home cook, local foods activist, and author of Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 17, 2023

That connection could be their relationship with you personally or with someone who is part of your organization, like a Board member, volunteer, or program participant. The solid middle circle is made up of your nonprofit’s family: you, your Board, your volunteers, and your current supporters. Next, go one circle out.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

They can be helpful sometimes, but you don’t have to have these volunteers or kids inside your organization, youth who can just elbow you out of the way and make it happen. You’re a food bank, or in some way, you help with food scarcity and hunger issues. Life is going to be grand. We can do this. We can drive cars.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

I threw a Grub party at a friend's farm in rural North Carolina that was started by four friends who were living in Brooklyn, living the city life, and decided to take over the family farm in North Carolina, and have totally taken over this farm, and made it organic, selling to their neighbors, selling to their community.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The pandemic disrupted every aspect of life, and it’s no secret that nonprofits and educational institutions were particularly hard hit. This year, Salesforce employees have also volunteered more than 120,000 pro bono hours to help those organizations use that technology effectively.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

But this age group is the second most likely to fundraise and volunteer for your organization, and the most likely to spread the word. It’s not always easy to keep supporters caring about your cause- breathing new life into the story you tell can help. What do you know about the “life blood” of your organization?

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