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The Top 3 Charity Rating & Badge Programs for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A clever use of a Candid Seal of Transparency is the Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF) which occasionally promotes and embeds its seal on social media graphics. For example, Friends of Saguaro National Park is a small nonprofit located in Tucson, AZ that has featured its GreatNonprofits badge on the home page of its website.

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Supporting Latinx nonprofits by training leaders and fundraisers 

Candid

Meanwhile, thousands of small and midsize Latinx-focused nonprofits are serving our communitiesfrom a womens shelter in Chicago to a scholarship program in Tucson. Yet Latinx nonprofits work on climate change, conservation, the arts, health, LGBTQ+ rights, womens rights and empowerment, voting rights, education, etc.

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Nonprofit Start-Up Fever Hits the Valley, Sweeps the Nation

ASU Lodestar Center

The new exemptions this summer include an unusually large group of arts organizations, such as Kids Unlimited in Tucson, the Arizona Shaolin Cultural Center in Chandler, Arizona Youth Ballet in Mesa, and the Flagstaff Youth Theater. One answer might be a real uptick in charitable organizations in a recovering economy.

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Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle Network

Have Fun - Do Good

And in doing so, of course, we move forward our nonprofit conservation mission of keeping good stuff out of landfills. Because I'm sitting out here in Tucson, Arizona where there are more cows than computers. Our hope is that by making it easier to give something away than to throw it away, that a lot more people will do it.

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10 Instagram Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, stay away from using general hashtags, such as #beautiful and #happy, and instead narrow your focus to hashtags relevant specific to your nonprofit, such as causes ( #foodinsecurity ), special campaigns ( #endfoodwaste ), your location ( #Tucson ), and relevant emojis ( # – that’s right! Emojis can be hashtags).

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El Paso, Texas, just broke ground on the first U.S. facility to turn wastewater directly into drinking water

Fast Company Tech

El Paso is the first out of the gate, but Phoenix and Tucson are expected to follow suit. In the 1990s, El Paso Water undertook an educational campaign to encourage residents to conserve water, which successfully brought down average consumption. The Tucson City Council voted in January to accept $86.7 million from the U.S.

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