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Why embracing outreach is important for nonprofits

ASU Lodestar Center

An attitude of stuffiness, elitism or ‘I know what’s best for your community’ is quickly shut down. Simple outreach activities include providing literature like brochures, materials and giveaway items marketing the program. Organizations use marketing efforts to create collateral that will appeal to target demographics.

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Metrics for Building, Scaling, and Funding Social Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The report captures a conundrum in measuring social change movements or networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children. Anyone out there using metrics to measure movements? But, how do you measure the results?

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Four Tips to Help Nonprofit Marketing Departments Create a Culture of Philanthropy

Connection Cafe

The Playbook features a highly practical toolkit that consists of facilitator agendas and worksheets for nonprofit staff to apply the ideas and frameworks. The program department only meets with its staff and so on. Be sure to have leadership kick off the session by discussing the importance of philanthropy to the organization.

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Got Hope? I Do, in Generation Y

Have Fun - Do Good

Last week I had the pleasure of facilitating a career counseling session for a group of Stanford students who were spending their "alternative spring break" meeting with social entrepreneurs in the Bay Area. Yes, We Can." --Andrea Zak, Here's What's Defining Generation Y Now on Brazen Careerist. times the number currently employed."

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10 Ways to Build a Better Community Brainstorming Meeting

Museum 2.0

Designing a new program. Bonded groups are useful if you want to understand people's existing attitudes and impressions. Not surprisingly, a different focus group of social service providers and homeless adults had a very different set of concerns about downtown. You're planning a new exhibition. Now how the heck do you do it?

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Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

Care2

Facilitating face-time and team building for your regional staff. Recruiting applicants to a fellowship program. telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. Another alternative is to ask people to fund your hotel stays or donate their points in various hotel reward programs.

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Program Comfort: Events that Draw People Out

Museum 2.0

This week, we tackle educational programs and this question: what program could compel you to dress in carrots and hit the streets? It was the kind of experience I wish I had at lots of museum programs—the staff and the content pulled me out of my comfort zone, engaged me in something unusual, and made me feel great.

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