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From boring to brilliant: Using data for maximum impact

ASU Lodestar Center

This is part two of Carolyn Owen''s series on gathering and using data for grant proposals. So how do you intertwine data in the proposal so that it supports and amplifies your cause rather than obfuscate it? For example, I recently wrote a grant that addressed childhood obesity. Are childhood obesity rates higher?

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Minnesota Open Idea: Crowdsourcing Contest For Social Change Done Right

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, the community foundation finished its first Minnesota Open Idea contest to fund the best idea to address the childhood obesity issue. Why did you pick the childhood obesity issue for the challenge? Then the group came together and debated the highest-scored proposals and whittled the pool down to 21 ideas.

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Nonprofits: Have we had enough of "vote for me" fundraising yet?

Judi Sohn

How do you decide that an organization's mission to provide help for Jewish families dealing with Autism has more or less value than an organization that fights a rare childhood disease or takes care of animals? The general public can view and comment on the proposed programs, maybe even make suggestions of partners.

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ChatGPT & Google Gemini Identify Four Essentials for Successful Nonprofit Giving Campaigns

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For nonprofit managers who oversee tedious administrative work and grant proposal grinds, for instance, AI is a godsend for reducing time suck. Artificial intelligence is simplifying the nonprofit slog work that ties up enormous banks of time and resources. Online Donations – St.

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Nonprofits: Have we had enough of "vote for me" fundraising yet?

Judi Sohn

How do you decide that an organization's mission to provide help for Jewish families dealing with Autism has more or less value than an organization that fights a rare childhood disease or takes care of animals? The general public can view and comment on the proposed programs, maybe even make suggestions of partners.

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How four-person startup Luminopia is using TV to treat lazy eye 

TechCrunch

Lazy eye is the most common childhood form of vision loss, and affects about three out of every 100 kids. . The FDA has already been somewhat in support of other proposals in this vein. . Amblyopia can develop early in life when something causes one eye to struggle to keep up with the other. .”

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Escaping the Stigma: What Nonprofits Need to Help Donors Understand

NonProfit Hub

Donors give us money because they believe in the cause and believe in the program that we’re proposing. ” I love when he rationalizes how we allow people to make millions off of selling violent video games to kids—but try to make a million curing childhood cancer and we’re parasites. or eat for that matter. The double standard.

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