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Using Software and Data to Change the World

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Donors and communities are announcing big hairy audacious goals – end modern slavery, get to zero chronic and veteran homelessness, increase job opportunities for certain communities by a factor of two – or ten! And data is voice. We need to see data as an expression of the voices. Now this vision is not just about more data.

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Nonprofits As Trusted Messangers During This Election Year

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofits fight poverty, provide great venues for art and music, challenge homelessness, help organize civic life, promote the common good and a host of other functions that puts human community and the common good before profits and a narrow band of investors. They share a mission of community service and benefit.

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How to structure your nonprofit social media plan

Get Fully Funded

But before, during, and after the fun, your message and the voice of your organization need to come through. Here’s a hint: They want to know the inside scoop on what it takes to save bears or tutor kids or help homeless veterans. Yes, there will always be times when spur-of-the-moment posts are best. What are they interested in?

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

We need every solution and every solver…What this moment calls for is a mosaic of voices — the full spectrum of ideas and insights for now we can turn things around.” – Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. “To address our climate emergency, we must rapidly, radically reshape society. Wilkinson, ‘All We Can Save’.

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

Have Fun - Do Good

But by and large, people were pushed into poverty wage jobs and forced to make profit for huge corporations, while not having any opportunity to improve the living standards for themselves or their families. Steve Williams: When I was in college I did a lot of service work around homelessness issues. I was hooked from that moment on.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Co-created programming that represents the complex range of voices in communities, offers platforms for communication, collaboration and shared experiences that can enrich preexisting relationships while also offer a space for new relationships to form and strengthen.

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100+ Fundraising Event Ideas to Try in 2021 and Beyond

Qgiv

John Center for Homeless Men recently did their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent , with some of their participants raising over $10,000 in their house party. You can share the profits and your supporters will be excited to take the plants home.

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