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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

Activities they considered “service” included “working with others to make the community or campus a better place” (81%), “acting to benefit the common good” (80%), “everyday acts of kindness” (76%), “acting to raise awareness about a campus, community, or global problem” (72%), and “working with others to address social inequality” (68%).

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

UChicago raises $105 million for challenge campaign for scholarships. August 17, 2021 The University of Chicago has announced gifts totaling $105 million from board members to launch a $200 million campaign in support of undergraduate financial aid. Independence Public Media Foundation awards grants totaling $4 million.

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Comfort vs. Action: The Internal Debate

ASU Lodestar Center

Tan , University Service Learning /. His stance raises the question: Does being committed to social change require making one less comfortable or resisting being “too comfortable?". Tan is a Coordinator in ASU’s University Service Learning department, specializing in community partnerships and AmeriCorps programming.

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How Do You Measure Up? [Benchmarks Webinar]

Care2

Her team raises funds to help secure and distribute more than 200M meals annually for families struggling with hunger. She has a BS in Business Administration in Marketing and Advertising from Marquette University, and lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

Many of these tools use crowdsourcing techniques, which engages large groups of people via the Internet to do important tasks like raise money, collect information on needs in a stricken area and get them out to first responders, translate information in to several languages, or map the crisis in useful ways.

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9 Things To Do After A Donor Donates

Care2

Share stories privately before going public with them. Explaining why you need a recurring gift and what impact it will have is crucial to raising support. She holds an MBA from The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, and a B.S.B.A in Finance from Georgetown University. Celebrate donors as they give.

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Five Ways to Ensure Your Event Makes Headline News

Connection Cafe

Here’s an example from a small local event: We posted this story to the “Trib Local” (a Chicago Tribune local news blog). That would have been the end of the story, except the University of Maryland Cancer Center that produced the half marathon worked with the owner to tell Dozer’s story and gain priceless publicity for the event.