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Creative Event Ideas To Get Students Involved In Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

Hands-on volunteering days Nothing beats the power of getting ones hands dirty for a good cause. Organizing hands-on volunteering events like community clean-ups, food drives, or shelter support days offers students the opportunity to make an immediate difference while connecting to the nonprofits mission.

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Kids and Kickstarter: The Rise of PhilanthroKids and Kid Crowdfunding!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. But giving, isn’t just about making a donation or volunteering your time. Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 It’s about engaging, participating, and being part of something bigger than yourself. Look out world!

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been volunteering for community causes since I was a kid, something my family encouraged. When I was in the third grade, I volunteered to bake cupcakes to help fundraise for Lucy the Elephant (who thankfully survived super storm Sandy ). Generosity is baked into my DNA and I can’t help it. I grew up at the Jersey Shore.

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Giving the Gift of Accessibility

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One donor made a special offer to our top volunteers, those who have provided at least 150 books to Bookshare: that they could request any one book and we'd (not they!) Our Volunteer Coordinator, Pavi Mehta, sent me this email last week and I thought it was definitely blog-worthy! I am so happy to be able to volunteer for bookshare.

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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

The statistics on hunger in America are startling: 14.5% This means many children and teens who regularly had access to nutritious meals during the school year may be hungry or undernourished over the summer, even when there are free meals available in their communities. Food Insecurity in a Land of Plenty.

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Another Model of Giving: Socially Responsible Small Businesses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Kids Against Hunger packages and ships highly nutritious, life-saving meals to starving and malnourished children in developing countries and the United States. They do this by mobilizing children, teens, and adults volunteers who, package the meals. Newman's Own is, of course, a great example of this model of giving.

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Simplifying nonprofit strategic planning for beginners 

Get Fully Funded

Consider all the other areas your nonprofit will need to address like volunteers, Board development, and fundraising. Eradicating hunger in your community is not a goal. Serving as many teens as possible through your youth program is not a goal. How many teens do you want to serve in years one, two, and three?

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