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Stellar year-end fundraising strategies for busy nonprofit leaders

Get Fully Funded

Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. Contact local civic clubs and churches and see if you can get on their program schedule during the holidays. Pitch a story to your local news. Make it easy for them to adapt your press release into a story. Every Kitten Deserves a Chance. Expand your speaking opportunities.

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How Cross-Sector Collaboration is Helping Fight Youth Unemployment in Boston

Connection Cafe

Have you interacted with your local government, or spoken to your peers about their programs? Do you have a pulse on what the most pressing local needs are at this moment? What about local nonprofits or community foundations; do you know who to reach out to if needed? Where does your organization sit in your community?

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. As the first social networking website used by the masses, MySpace carried the brunt of bad press. Teens talk about the organizations at their local church, and thus the church creates a MySpace profile. MySpace is not dangerous.

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5 Ways Hands On Nashville Rocked The Music City on #GivingTuesday

Connection Cafe

This week we’re talking #bikesandbakedgoods (a winning combination), and how Hands On Nashville used #GivingTuesday to create local impact – with 5 fundraising ideas to help you rock your next campaign. With help from the local community and partner agencies, this program works to give refurbished bikes to the area’s kids in need.

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Nonprofits and App Developers Combine Forces for Community Change

Tech Soup

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? She wanted to create something that teens and adults could use and that was also free. We use apps to capture memories, keep track of tasks, entertain ourselves, and communicate. Crowdfunding Help.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon. She surveyed existing local programs.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

The Waffle Shop is a cafe and live streaming TV channel that serves a diverse audience of late night club-goers and locals in an urban neighborhood. PieLab resembles other community development projects: it employs struggling teens, provides local entrepreneurs and organizations with space and support, and brings together diverse folks.

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