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Want to stay healthier and fulfilled later in life? Try volunteering

Fast Company Tech

Even engaging in whats known as informal helping lending a hand to friends, neighbors, or community members in need, without getting paid or participating in an organized programcan help you in similar ways. 170 billion each year, according to AmeriCorps, the federal agency focused on national and community service. Start small.

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Maximizing Impact and Visibility with Google Ad Grants for Nonprofit Growth

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Educating the Public: Campaigns can raise awareness around key issues, helping nonprofits fulfill their missions by informing and engaging communities. Using keywords like marine conservation donations and save ocean wildlife, we attracted an engaged audience. Good: “Help fight hunger in your community!

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NPR CEO Katherine Maher makes the case for why public radio is essential to American democracy

Fast Company Tech

Maher gives a preview to her testimony, sharing how funding cuts would impact Americans broad access to crucial news and information, particularly in rural and local areas. I think that that’s something that often gets lost in the conversation about public radio is the overall percentage of funds that go directly to local stations.

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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Elaina Todd, an environmental planner who develops social marketing campaigns with the nonprofit conservation group Rare, is profiled in our most recent case study for Benetech’s Miradi software. Miradi, is used by nature conservation practitioners around the world to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects.

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Wildlife SOS :: @ WildlifeSOS.

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50 Nonprofits Every U.S. Politican Should Follow on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They are active in our communities, in our schools, and have valuable knowledge and experience that our nation’s elected officials could learn from and be inspired by, and yet very few U.S. National Parks Conservation Association :: @ NPCA. Ocean Conservancy :: @ OurOcean. politicians follow any nonprofits on Twitter.

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5 Reasons Your Board Should Switch to Google Drive

Nonprofit Tech for Good

More importantly, moving to the cloud is a great way to demonstrate transparency, strengthen institutional memory, conserve resources, collaborate, and display tech-savvy. 3) Conserve Resources. 1) Demonstrate Transparency. Transparency is an essential quality for a nonprofit. Sample Google Drive Structure Available for Download.

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