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Celebrating Black history and Black futures

Candid

While the history of the holiday is a bitter tale that involves immense trauma and deceit, we have grown to celebrate and reflect on the day as the first semblance of freedom Black people were granted, albeit nearly 100 years after the Declaration of Independence boldly offered freedom to everyone else. Looking to the future.

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Reflections from Center for Nonprofit Excellence Annual Conference, Louisville, KY

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today I facilitated a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. This saved a lot of time during the report out on reflections and learning. Understand the difference between a database and a base of support.

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Becoming A Networked Nonprofit Workshop: Reflections from Junior Achievement Worldwide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To understand the basic steps and frameworks for creating a social media strategy that supports a JA Office program or communications goal. The ECS Foundation accepted the proposal and granted funds to help support aspiring female high school students become future leaders. They were lucky enough to have Jason Falls help them out.

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Guest Post: How to Build Capacity with Roles that Volunteers Enjoy: a process in 4 easy steps

Twenty Hats

In the past, I knew about the various committees for events but, due to my cold outreach and recruitment efforts, never had the bandwidth to support their recruitment. I met with the development teams to learn more about their committees and see where I could support them with additional volunteers. Step 2: Survey Your Volunteers.

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Juneteenth Resources

Media Cause

We continue to listen, learn, and strategize on steps we can take to support Black lives in a meaningful way. The Conscious Kid —The Conscious Kid is an education, research, and policy organization that supports families and educators in taking action to disrupt racism, inequity and bias. Organizations to Donate to.

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And the Winner(s) of the Social Media Library Are.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But the grand prize winner of the books offered by Steve are: Erin McMahon , Metro United Way, Louisville, KY. The most interesting part of webinars is the q/a and Tara got an interesting question about how you measure Whuffie and she wrote her reflection here. Erin even wrote a little poetry as part of her entry.

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