Get Fully Funded

MAY 11, 2023

They need to feel good about your track record and the impact your program is having. They kept going after various grants from the State of Tennessee just because they could. Grants are designed to help you serve your recipients and have a greater impact — not fill up your emergency fund. We had a client like this once.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Austin, Texas: Communicating with Impact: Adobe Spark | #Storymakers2017. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Mukono, Uganda.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 27, 2013

If the scope of your aspiration is local, find charities that are based in your neighborhood or city. If you're interested in a local charity, you can call or visit its offices to find out about the organization's goals. Gauge the impact. Here are a few tips for vetting a nonprofit before you give: Align your goals.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2013

This week we’re talking #bikesandbakedgoods (a winning combination), and how Hands On Nashville used #GivingTuesday to create local impact – with 5 fundraising ideas to help you rock your next campaign. With help from the local community and partner agencies, this program works to give refurbished bikes to the area’s kids in need.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 1, 2021

The Houston Food Bank teamed up with their local ABC affiliate during the Houston power outage and food crisis in February 2021. Local celebrities or anyone who is passionate about your cause can reach more deeply into communities because they are a part of that same community. That connection makes it emotionally more impactful.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2015

Julie Lyles Carr was asked a life-changing question five years ago: "What is the one thing you would like to do to impact your community?" In fact, 2dance2dream opened a satellite branch in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in February 2015 and has been approached by professional dance schools in Dallas, Phoenix, and Los Angeles.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It’s no longer a question of whether the impacts on the environment of our collective human actions over decades will continue to result in more extreme weather, natural disasters, and economic instability. The Nature Conservancy Focuses on Local Solutions to Drive Change. Dodging the proverbial bullet is not an option.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, and both sets of my grandparents came from rural Mississippi. When I think about what my grandparents ate, and what their parents ate, they ate food that was as fresh as being harvested that day, as local as their backyard garden, and as seasonal as whatever was in season. It's just inaccessible."

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2022

A Cautionary Tale A few years ago, I worked with a client that had received almost all the funding for their million-dollar budget from a single grant through the State of Tennessee. The impact on the nonprofit was swift and harsh. It’s tempting to apply for everything you can find or to ALL the local foundations in your area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

Building on this concept, Beth asked nonprofit leaders to enter the contest by explaining what their organization’s singular, most important activity would be in 2011 that would at-once drive social impact, engage supporters and increase revenues. Now that’s social impact! This has completely impacted the operations of our day-to-day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

From the global to the local, here are #10Ways geolocation is a positive force for good. Mobile technologies will extend the global online network to anyone with a mobile device while enabling countless local networks to form in the real world. He is the founder of MomentFeed , a location-based marketing, strategy, and technology firm.

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