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Unlocking The Power Of A Donor Thank You: Feeding America’s Approach

Bloomerang

Manager, Direct Marketing Fundraising Services, long-time staff of the national nonprofit Feeding America , knows better. The Feeding America National Organization relies on individual, corporate, and foundation support. More than 98% of all donations go directly to feeding programs for people facing hunger.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , Citi, and others announced commitments in support of climate action on the second day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) being held in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more.

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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Caltech’s small size makes its faculty and students incredibly agile when it comes to understanding a broad array of fields: there is a need here to be able to explain your work, and to understand the work of others. To the greatest extent possible, be open. Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source.

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Work on Stuff that Matters

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I see this hunger for meaning in most of the people I'm privileged to meet: from the college freshman to the fresh grad to the mid-career professional and the senior executive. Education the way we've always done it isn't meeting the needs of our nation. We all want to work on Stuff That Matters.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. Very sophisticated for a student team. The FCC ruling opened a four-month public comment period, after which it will take a final vote on net neutrality. An App To End World Hunger?

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How Skills-Based Volunteerism Creates Transformational Experiences

Connection Cafe

My colleagues and I spent an afternoon of job shadowing at our office with ten students from the high school. The most prominent answers were hunger, poverty, racism, education, police brutality, and pollution. The students were quite interested in this. No one had.

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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

Get Fully Funded

There are plenty of ordinary happenings that can grab a headline, such as your nonprofit’s annual student art contest or upcoming 5K. Reach out to the media with a local angle on a national story. After-school violin program receives six new violins, will expand to include younger students . Keep your letter to about 150 words.

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