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Board diversity strategies to help nonprofits achieve success

ASU Lodestar Center

Training helps people not only understand their role as board members, but including diversity, equity and inclusion training helps board members see how they fit within the bigger picture and shows that the organization is committed to strengthening their cultural competency.

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How To Write A Nonprofit Mission Statement in 7 Steps (Plus 10 Great Examples)

Neon CRM

With a well-crafted mission statement, your nonprofit can present a clear, concise picture of what you do and why. Has your mission pivoted due to a global or local event? Iowa Healthiest State Initiative “To become the healthiest state in the nation by improving the physical, social and emotional well-being of Iowans.”

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Funding Rural America: Bridging the Resource Gap

Tech Soup

However, Cynthia Adams presented some interesting numbers showing that private foundation grants are not the entire picture. It's useful for researching for contextual information you would include in grant proposals — things like finding statistics for your locale on cultural diversity, employment conditions, and economic drivers.

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Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle Network

Have Fun - Do Good

It enables people to find others in their local community to give things to that they would otherwise end up throwing away or taking to the landfill. I sent out one email to 30 or 40 friends and a handful of local nonprofits announcing the start of this Yahoo group. We've been around for about four years now. I'll call it Freecycle."

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Why Social Movements Need Stories

Tech Soup

For myself and other bloggers covering local accounts during that time, if we didn’t actually know someone there, it was stories like these that connected us to the people on the ground. I was lucky enough to be part of the team that won marriage equality in Iowa in 2009. mainstream media.

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Small Groups Can Change the World: An Interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network

Have Fun - Do Good

The Engage Network was founded when Julia Butterfly Hill had a major motion picture coming out about her, and we saw what had happened with An Inconvenient Truth. So, if you see Van speak, our goal is to have a place that you can plug in, a local leader who says, "Come to my house." I went to the University of Iowa.

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Must Hear Speech from Barack Obama and the Power of Podcasting

Have Fun - Do Good

And I spoke to a sergeant from Iowa who had lost one of his legs but was working vigorously to get accustomed to his prosthetic leg so he could return to Iraq as soon as he could. I then went up to the wards to visit with other injured veterans - to take pictures, talk about basketball, and to say thank you.

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