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September Cause Awareness: National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

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Encourage conversations with friends and family about challenging the stigma and attitudes around mental health, or attend a local suicide prevention walk and invite your friends and family to join you. If you want to take things a step further, look up your local crisis center or community hotline and become a trained volunteer.

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Biker Philanthropy: TechSoup Revs Up Donated Computer Programs for Kids

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I gave Greg Reaster a call to find out what they were doing in the Tampa Bay area. After that Reaster began putting ads in the local paper soliciting for computers. We see lots of kids in the Tampa Bay area with natural smarts but no money in the family for a home computer. " Naturally, we were excited to check this out.

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From Ashton Kutcher to Soup: Super Bowl Giving

Have Fun - Do Good

The Souper Bowl of Caring 's mission is to use, "Super Bowl weekend to mobilize youth to fight hunger and poverty in their local communities." The youth at the Farmville Baptist Church in Farmville, VA will be collecting donations after the service for their local food bank, FACES. This year's winner was the Green Bay Packers.

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Social Media and the Performing Arts: Engagement First, Ticket Sales Second

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the participants was from the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, and they shared the story of how their tweet ups have grown in popularity. They did a lot of listening and searching for local Twitter users. They had followers tweet dance movements which were performed and videotaped on YouTube.

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Social Media and the Performing Arts: Engagement First, Ticket Sales Second

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the participants was from the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, and they shared the story of how their tweet ups have grown in popularity. They did a lot of listening and searching for local Twitter users. They had followers tweet dance movements which were performed and videotaped on YouTube.

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Social Media and the Performing Arts: Engagement First, Ticket Sales Second

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the participants was from the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, and they shared the story of how their tweet ups have grown in popularity. They did a lot of listening and searching for local Twitter users. They had followers tweet dance movements which were performed and videotaped on YouTube.

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5 College Fundraising Ideas (That are Fun and Easy!)

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A great example of this is at a local university here in Tampa — The University of South Florida. Miles for Moffitt” has been hosted on campus for the last twelve years (now being moved to downtown Tampa as of 2018). It is a run/walk for those wanting to participate to raise funds for the facility and department.

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