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The Technology Behind Thriving Nonprofit Communities

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Many nonprofits pour time, energy, and resources into launching a membership platformCircle, Slack, Mighty Networks, or a custom-built forumexpecting it to foster an active, engaged community. Many organizations assume that a membership platform equals community, but thats not the case. Unfortunately, thats not how community works.

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Introducing our Book Group Facilitation Guide!

VQ Strategies

That’s where book groups come in. In response to many requests, we have developed a facilitation guide for formal and informal book groups. How did your experience of “community” change in recent years, and how did that experience apply to your efforts to engage volunteers or serve clients? Download your copy today!

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It’s possible to work across differences: Here’s how 

Candid

And thats something nonprofits are increasingly trying to facilitate. RTT decided to redesign the program to focus first on helping different groups, including conservative white evangelicals and progressive community leaders of color, work through their own internal divisions.

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Adapt and Overcome

VQ Strategies

Peer Support Groups are among the many ways that Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) serves veterans and service members who incurred a physical or mental injury, illness, or wound while serving in the military on or after September 11, 2001. VQ: Tell me about your role and the peer support group prior to the pandemic. We are a family.

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Sneaker enthusiast group SoleSavy raises $2M, setting the stage for a community-driven commerce boom

TechCrunch

SoleSavy, a community built around buying hot sneakers and related items that are increasingly hard to acquire at retail, raised $2 million in a round that closed late last year. SoleSavy is a group of communities that is currently mostly hosted on Slack. . I just coined that, by the way, please make it a thing.

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People Want To Belong To Your Nonprofit’s Community

Bloomerang

A wise boss once told me: “ A community is defined by caring for its members. One of the things you are responsible for as a development professional is building and nurturing community. Let’s focus, head-on, on the impact you have on the philanthropists who choose to commune with you. Otherwise, it’s just a zip code.”

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What Past Disasters Tell Us About What Maui Needs Now

VisionLink

Most importantly, the more comprehensive the information is in the early phases of recovery, the more the local community knows about its own needs, and the more it can better direct its own recovery. Many of these organizations already exist in the local community. Mental health is an acute need after a disaster like this.

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