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Client Spotlight: National Pediatric Cancer Foundation

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In 2012, President Barack Obama named September National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month to raise awareness of pediatric cancer. In honor of their life-changing work, we’re highlighting their mission and impact as a way to help raise awareness. Pediatric cancer is the leading cause of death by disease for children. Get Involved.

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Preparing Your Nonprofit to Move Beyond the Founder

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Stepping away is part of the nonprofit circle of life. It is a stage of development in the nonprofit life cycle. One that, like actual childhood and early adolescence, is full of hazards, and that inevitably must come to an end. That is the test of a true leader. Birth is an apt metaphor for the founder years.

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Member Round Up: Game of Thrones and emergency response, diversity data, and an app to help connect youth with summer meals!

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Join in Promet ''s upcoming webinar : Myth Busting Website Performance Truisms - Investigating Actual Performance Improvements of Popular ‘Fixes’, and learn more about how to properly & accurately load test, the fundamentals of capacity planning & performance tuning, and more. Want to combat childhood hunger?

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Some Reflections about Social Data in the Cloud from the Social Innovation Summit 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One example comes from, StethoCloud , which developed a solution to diagnose childhood pneumonia. Another winner featured at the Summit was Barcode of Life consortium (lead by the Smithsonian) received $3 million for DNA barcoding to protect endangered species, of which more than 2,000 are protected from illegal trade by UN regulations.

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Get Well Gamers Foundation Is Seeking Donations of Game Systems in Good Condition

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The organization was founded by Ryan Sharpe who spent a number of days in his childhood in a hospital ward. through a donation network According to a post on the Serious Games list serv from Ben Sawyer, Ryan presented at Games for Health last year and he is an expert in improving hospital life with games then Ryan.

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UNICEF Shares How You Can Support India Today Amidst the COVID-19 Surge

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Indirectly, many children’s lives are impacted as more households get pushed into poverty, schools are closed, and strained health systems and by disruptions to life-saving health care like immunizations. People waiting in line to get tested for COVID-19 at a dedicated wing of the Krishnaraja Hospital in Mysore of Karnataka state in India.

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Next-Level Fundraising with Nonprofit Psychology

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Many of these can be used in your day-to-day life. You can also do some testing and trials of your own for primary research of sorts. Research on nearly any topic can be found, from early childhood development to education to addiction recovery. There are countless studies and experiments out there.