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Slacktivism: Can Cartoons Raise Awareness or Just Make Us Feel Good?

NetWits

In an effort to raise awareness for child abuse, thousands of Facebook users changed their profile photos to one of their favorite childhood cartoon characters (full disclosure: mine was Underdog.) This is for a campaign against violence on children.&# Did you notice something toony about Facebook last weekend?

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Why some school districts are spending big on schools tailor-made for 4-year-olds

Fast Company Tech

The classrooms have child-size boats and construction vehicles children can play on, and ceilings painted to resemble outer space. Windows are low to the ground so children can easily look outside. Hallways are lined with a corrugated plastic for wiggly fingers to touch as children transition to other locations.

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The Essential Nonprofit Fundraiser’s Guide to Mobile Giving

Bloomerang

To raise significantly more money through existing email channels, add a link to your online donation page or a mobile email donation button, like the one pictured below. Mobile email Since most nonprofits already have email newsletters , adding a mobile fundraising component to your email strategy is not a stretch.

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Five Steps to Finding ROI

Amy Sample Ward

First, let’s settle on an example we can use to walk through all 5 steps: you work for a small nonprofit that focuses on early childhood education, so you have lots of services for parents and partnerships with hospitals, child care facilities, and doctors offices. So now, finally, we get to the metrics.

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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

Get Fully Funded

For our fictitious story, the plot is that many children only eat one meal a day — dinner. For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school. They’re just overall happier children, and their success at school sets them up for success later in life! What is happening in your hero’s life?

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Creativity in Education (and Life) Can Change the World

Have Fun - Do Good

Some of my best childhood memories are from going to public grade school. Writing a report on wolves and taking a picture with a Polaroid of a wolf in a book so it would look like the wolf was in my backyard (: Being the lead in the school play, Really Rose. If I had children, I'd sign them up too. Wish by me (: Share

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a.

ASU Lodestar Center

She was an example for me throughout my childhood, bringing me along as she volunteered at soup kitchens, with the LDS cannery, and in the Scouts. I hope to teach my own children, someday, all that I’ve learned about service and citizenship. Picture This: A Look Back at This Year's Spring Fo.