Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Do you have an idea for an organization that will bring good to the world and serve a charitable purpose? You might be inspired to bring your idea to life by starting a nonprofit. Does the community seem excited about your nonprofit idea? Look into pro-bono services offered by local bar associations or law firms.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you’re doing anything worth doing, you can collaborate with business, government and other nonprofits in consortium efforts to address complex problems holistically. Some ideas won’t pan out; that’s okay. I came up with an idea to mesh my love of weekend crafts fairs and artist open studio visits with my day job.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Additionally, board members often have high-level connections in business, education, or even local and state government. They could help you coordinate a corporate volunteering day or connect you with a local club that is seeking a volunteering opportunity. Collaborate with local businesses. Connect with civic groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

But the winner was a story about stepping out an organization’s comfort zone to try to avoid repeating past mistakes. The winner is Heartland Pride and here’s their story: Little Bet: After years of having a local organization that planned pride in the Midwest fail numerous times, our organization was formed. Social Media.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Get an idea of how many people will need the service you are offering. Your local United Way or similar organization may have a bank of qualified people seeking Board roles, saving you some time and work to find the right person. Often, community banks want to help local organizations and give you extra services or waive fees.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you’re doing anything worth doing , you could collaborate with businesses, governments, and other nonprofits to address complex problems in a holistic way. Some ideas won’t pan out; that’s OK. I came up with an idea to mesh my love of weekend crafts fairs and artist open studio visits with my day job. Take your best shot. .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

Public ideas about health are changing rapidly as a result of technology, medical research, and preventive and wellness services. IBM connects purpose-driven innovation to the market through its Smarter Cities challenge, which invites governments to submit thorny environmental, social, or infrastructural challenges. Take CVS Health.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are so many different kinds of nonprofit event ideas out there! With those factors in mind, we’ve put together a list of 52 nonprofit event ideas to help serve as a “vision board” for your organization’s next event. Cook-Off Does your area have a special dish that is imbued with a lot of local pride?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2011

I would not expect the parents of blind children to drive the rights struggle for blind people, but I had taken the role of parents as the prime movers in the LD movement for given. Although the topic was on learning disabilities, one of the funders present had a strong interest in environmental ideas.

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Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2014

Libraries, nonprofits, and faith-based organizations can help fight youth hunger by sharing information about local free summer meal sites. Only one in six children who are eligible for the National School Lunch Program take advantage of the Summer Food Service Program. Please bring your ideas, experiences, and questions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I didn’t know how I could turn ideas into action, but I wanted to learn. Starting out, my main focus was recruiting community members to become change makers and role models in children’s lives—also known as Big Brothers and Big Sisters. In that few hours, I talked with dozens of moms and I got 34 referrals for youth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Invisible Children’s film tapped into a network of celebrities, whose tweets and status updates helped to amplify a simple story and call to action. We might be surprised by the speed and degree of connectedness it suggests, but in many ways, this is simply the way ideas have always spread and movements been born. .”

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 14, 2009

Here are a few ideas: 1. Help them find biographical and autobiographical books, movies, and TV shows about inspiring people like Listen to the Wind , the children's version of the adult bestseller, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace. Write letters to your government officials (federal, state and local) together.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The end of the Guatemalan Civil War resulted in a flood of non-governmental organization (NGO) programs spreading across the country in the hope of helping desperately poor people gain everything from their human rights, to better health care, food and nutrition, and training in governance.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

In January, as part of a series of place-making workshops facilitated by the Project for Public Spaces , we worked with a local dad to coordinate a workshop explicitly for kids (full writeup here ). Their ideas were delightful, and their contributions shifted the conversation about what family-friendly really looks like.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

Examining the best nonprofit websites out there may give you an idea about whether it’s time to revamp your website or not, but we recommend also using a more empirical approach to determine if you need a new online strategy. They see the information about a gala event that your organization is hosting at the local aquarium.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

While some were very coding-focused, other events were focused on exchanging ideas and brainstorming solutions. The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. The projects varied from educational tools for children to energy efficiency.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 17, 2018

State and local income and property taxes are now limited to a $10,000 deduction. Limited deductions of state and local income and property taxes. State and local income and property taxes are now capped to a $10,000 deduction for those who itemize. This provides clear evidence that the estate tax encourages charitable giving.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

An oft-recommended general best practice is to start with an idea of the set of specific decisions you want to be able to make using data and then work your way backward from there to determine the metrics needed to produce that data. governments, foundations) can put out an “ask” for a specific outcome (e.g.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

This plan is a living rough draft based on everyone’s ideas. government agency established to make mental health and substance abuse help and resources more readily available. UNICEF Strategic Plan 2022-2025 UNICEF is a United Nations Agency devoted to providing humanitarian aid to children worldwide.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Whether you were here in Toronto or not, I’d love to hear your ideas, feedback, and goals for change! We need to let go of the idea that we are serving our constituents, and recognize the ways we could be working together to change their lives, their neighborhoods, and beyond. The full keynote and presentation are below.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

NetSquared is TechSoup's answer to providing local tech support and learning opportunities. Here in Uganda and Africa in general, governments do not provide for elderly people. We also help poor children and poor schools. We help children with school fees, computer training, and many other things.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 16, 2013

She knew about creating board job descriptions, heard terms like “give, get, or get off,” and knew having an orientation for new board members would be a good idea. The ASU Lodestar Center offers board governance training. John and his wife Sheila have three children, and live in north Phoenix. Look no further! Get another!

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

Participants included representatives from most of the major local organizations focused on global health data, biomed and clinical research, and healthcare delivery, some important funders, and a handful of consultants focusing on GIS, social media and public policy data--all in all a great mix of perspectives. Seattle Children's.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Sustainability is still a real challenge, but the cost to value ratio of a school computer lab is shrinking to the point where you are starting to see governments and local communities invest more on their own to promote ICT access. .

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

With technology improving, virtual and hybrid events rising in popularity, and new event ideas coming to fruition, it can be hard to determine the best fundraising event that aligns with your audience, goals, and overall mission. 100+ Fundraising Event Ideas to Try Out. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Ideas.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Kishshana is a social-good matchmaker, non-profit consultant and your coveted insider on philanthropy, recruiting and retaining diverse talent and cultivating bright ideas for social good. She was a pioneer of the Eagles Care program, which partners the Eagles with local nonprofits to make a lasting difference in the Philadelphia community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

I'm exploring some different co-ownership ideas or options with different friends, because I definitely don't want to do it alone, and in California, nobody can afford the land. I feel like the bar's been raised so high in the country around awareness of eating local foods, and policy is definitely the next step.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2009

insurance, government, individual's fees for services) to meet this endless need. Communities need to band together to support their local hospitals to fill in where the traditional resources are not enough by providing service, providing funding, advocating and governing (on Boards of Trustees).

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The annual 24-hour giving day, created to counter the retail-heavy push that begins with Black Friday, has thousands of nonprofits, businesses, city governments, and other institutions participating in a drive to highlight generosity and partnership for good. billion was donated to US based nonprofits, a 25% increase from 2019.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 26, 2021

At a local level, we see health inequities that exist across provinces, states, counties, and even neighborhoods. Protecting Nearly Half the World’s Children Through Vaccination. Within COVAX, we brought together 193 governments,” she says. On a global scale, we see unequal access to vaccines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. Whether you want to raise money for clean water in Ethiopia, vaccinations for children in Haiti, or a safe home for a puppy in Mississipi, with a Birthday Cause your friends can give in honor of your special day.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

The idea of an office, or a physical place in which a person sits down to work, isn’t new. By the late 17th Century, lawyers, doctors and government employees were toiling in offices built all across Europe. Local businesses became national. But first, a brief history of “the office” as a concept.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

"Now, 18 months later, all of Juana's children are in school. So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. Many of our trainees and journalists in Nepal do have children.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 19, 2012

It’s crucial to giving them the ability to make choices about their lives: when a woman has access to reproductive health care, she can make choices about her body and her future – not just about having children but also about staying in school, starting a business, or perhaps pursuing a role in local government.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Nearly everyone has had an idea for a business or nonprofit they’d like to establish. Founding and Scaling JFF Frank has three children born from various fertility treatments. And our government doesn’t provide socialized medicine, so there’s an exorbitant amount of money that people are spending on treatments.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

This year they have become part of the adult tutor/mentor corps, and are now volunteering to help other Cabrini Green children move through school and into college then careers. The ways to take action are as endless as the numbers of children in need. I’m not a teacher by training and I don’t have special skills.

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