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How Quickbooks Helps a Nonprofit Recharge Teenagers

Tech Soup

Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme) is dedicated to improving the lives of teens through mindfulness retreats. The organization offers weekend and weeklong residential mindfulness retreats for teens, including poor youth and those with major emotional issues. Mindfulness Retreats for Poor Teens.

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Top 5 Tips to Build Your Fundraising Event Committee

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Most nonprofits supplement staff labor with volunteer support. Volunteers tend to fall into one of two categories: key volunteers, who envision and plan the event, and episodic volunteers, who do the day-of work or small tasks around the office. Think about all the teens that need community service hours!)

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

The curatorial team or a multidisciplinary team who have the audience in mind when decisions are made about the best way to connect visitors to the collection?" What is on their minds. Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. The library is run in the lobby of a theater company by a group of volunteers led by Nell Taylor. The doors of SLAM are never closed.

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Fundraising 101: Understand the Basics of Fundraising so You Can Fund Your Dream

Get Fully Funded

When you embrace this donor-based model of thinking about the needs and desires of your donors, fundraising gets easier. And no matter how awesome you think your nonprofit’s mission is, if your cause isn’t one they like, you’re not going to change their mind. Then Board members and volunteers. You never beg.

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8 Ways Nonprofits Can Help P2P Fundraisers Meet & Exceed Their Goals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

We had already asked for volunteers to act as team captains, so after individuals signed up they were assigned to specific teams. As a nonprofit running a peer-to-peer campaign, I recommend reaching out to your most loyal and engaged supporters which could be your major donors, volunteers, board members, or staff.

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

At the tiny science center, I got to do everything from leading programs to building exhibits to managing volunteers to cleaning snot off of plexiglass. At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. You have to tell them what you want.

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