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January Cause Awareness: National Mentoring Month

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Positive mentoring relationships are so important to the success of youth everywhere. That’s why we take time every January to celebrate National Mentoring Month! If you’re wondering how you can celebrate the mentors in your life or even become a mentor yourself, here’s a little bit about National Mentoring Month.

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Why Now is the Time for Boys & Girls Clubs of America to Invest in Digital

Saleforce Nonprofit

And local Boys & Girls Clubs helped open the door to opportunities young people might not have otherwise, offering career training, skill building, positive mentors, and pathways to a great future. The pandemic was a reminder of just how important the relationships are between our Club mentors and the kids they serve.

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Are nonprofit volunteer retention strategies vital to a thriving team?

ASU Lodestar Center

Assigning volunteers to work in groups is a great way to deepen relationships, and provide mentoring and mission-focused collaboration. Brian currently works for Feed My Starving Children (Mesa, AZ) as a Volunteer Program Supervisor. Team building. Plan opportunities for volunteers to have fun together.

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Giving Trends in Brazil: How Crowdfunding & Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Nonprofit Sector

Nonprofit Tech for Good

And it’s great when we see small NGOs being supported by large NGOs with funding and mentoring programs, usually after that they find their way to financial sustainability. This is happening right now and over the next decade, I think Brazilian nonprofits will have more options at more accessible prices powered by the SaaS model.

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#GivingTuesday Champions

Tech Soup

In the neighborhood of West Philadelphia, People’s Emergency Cente r (PEC) has invested over $57 million into community development programs that seek to change the lives of women and children and inspire families. We also cheer on and highlight the following six organizations out of the many that are participat ing in Giving Tuesday.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A mentor is going to have a more powerful impact over somebody than YouTube videos. He seems to define social entrepreneurs as rapacious for-profit businesspeople who are modeling “themselves on the Steve Jobses and Mark Zuckerbergs of the world.” Avoid indiscriminate dissemination of packaged interventions.

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'Thanks to Public Allies, I am Now, and Forever, an Agent of Impact'

ASU Lodestar Center

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. One week later, I saw some of the kids already coming into our office to be interviewed so they could be matched to a life-changing mentor.

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