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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Set up a Spend, Give, and Save Allowance Policy: For younger kids, here’s a nifty piggy bank , with separate slots for investing, saving, spending, and donating is a great way to teach kids about devoting a portion of their income to charity. And it can be a rewarding experience. Youth in Philanthropy. Learning To Give.

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How to Turn Regular People Into Fundraising Pro’s in 3.5 Minutes

NetWits

In this three-minute video, FMSC is able to blend both messaging around their mission and the global hunger crisis with clear, easy to follow steps about how to participate as a fundraiser. teaches event participants how to be successful. They’ve created training that…. … is easily accessible. … is centered on the work FMSC is doing.

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Creative Event Ideas To Get Students Involved In Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

Nonprofit activities shape the students, teaching them valuable skills, helping them foster empathy, and connecting them to causes that matter. Pair food drives with storytelling sessions where students learn about local hunger challenges. Students are bursting with potential. Keep the activities manageable within their schedules.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

What would happen, instead, if organizations focused on eliminating hunger?) My mother taught me many things, and I feel like with every year she teaches me more – whether she knows it or not. (If we focus our work on feeding the hungry, for example, do we actually create a system in which we rely on people needing our services?

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There is no cybersecurity skills gap, but CISOs must think creatively

TechCrunch

We know we can teach the cybersecurity skills needed to do the job, so instead, there are two traits we consider more important than specific technical expertise: One is a hunger to learn more about security, which suggests the individual will take the initiative to continuously improve their skills.

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GivingTuesday 2018 Scales Generosity and Kindness to New Highs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We know from the early online giving contests that making nonprofits play the hunger games isn’t the best way, buy neither is the big boom of a big match dispersed all at once. Why did they release $7 million match all at once? Rather than a big boom at the when the clock strikes, disperse it throughout the day.

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How Bunny the dog is pushing scientists’ buttons

The Verge

Bunny’s journey started when Devine saw videos from Christina Hunger, a speech-language pathologist who has been teaching her dog Stella to use a board full of buttons with words prerecorded on them. Inspired by Hunger, Devine diligently trained Bunny from puppyhood and started setting up her own system one button at a time.

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