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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

Mission: Under the Laughs for the Troops umbrella, you will find many other great programs to help our veterans, increase awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), raise funds, and recruit volunteers. Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens.

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. The study and presentation begins with some context.

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Bay Area Teens Share the Love of Coding (Part 1)

Tech Soup

It was recently recognized by the City of San Jose for raising awareness of computer science among teens. Java, meanwhile, has become an important language for app development, particularly for smartphones running the Android operating system. He saw the potential of Java as a language and tried to expose Vineet to it.

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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005.

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? Or are you looking to open a shelter for teens who have left or been kicked out of their homes, a need totally different than the family shelters in your community. Raise Awareness and Build Support. Is the need for more beds seasonal?

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How to Write Fundraising Emails That Get Results

Get Fully Funded

The Strategy Behind Successful Fundraising Emails If you want to raise money by sending fundraising emails, you need to plan it carefully. For example: “Many teen girls struggle with their self-esteem thanks to Instagram and Snapchat. Your email system should be able to help you do that. What would you say?

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The Next Step: Performance Management Systems

NTEN

The emphasis on producing social value and placing clients' well-being first converges with high performing organizations' need to raise money effectively. A well-designed performance management system will, in other words, help an organization become more effective at serving people and at raising money in an increasingly competitive market.

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