According to the latest USDA report, over 9 million senior citizens in America are living at risk of hunger. The term “at risk of hunger” refers to people who said they didn’t have enough money to buy food at some point last year. In other words, there are 9 million Americans—ages 50 and older—who actually […]
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To give myself some peace of mind after the Aurora movie theater massacre and the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting, I started looking for charities that help family and friends deal with loss, or give life to something others thought was too far gone. Here are three charities that are giving hope to people and turning
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Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect over one billion of the world’s poorest people and over 500,000 each year die of these diseases. Not every NTD is deadly, but the effects of these diseases are long lasting, cause significant disability, and keep people mired in a cycle of poverty. Right now, funding to deploy essential medicines
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If you don’t know Danielle Brigida, the social media manager at the National Wildlife Federation, she’s a rock star in nonprofit social media. I was able to catch up with her recently and talk about how the NWF uses pictures to engage with their audience. NWF did a great job adapting to Facebook’s Timeline (check
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Regina Yau’s maternal grandmother endured domestic abuse for over 50 years until her husband passed away. As for the next two generations in her family, some of the women, including Regina, also ended up in abusive relationships. “I didn’t know at the time, but it replicates down the generations,” Regina says. “I guess you normalize
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Editor’s Note: We’ve got Ken Mueller guest posting again! If you missed his previous two posts, check out “A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words” and “How Businesses Can Benefit from Nonprofit Partnerships.” Soles4Souls has one primary mission: to put shoes on the feet of the 300 million children around the world who have none.
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Heifer International is a global charity with a simple but ambitious mission: to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and care for the earth. Heifer produces every type of content imaginable, but visual content plays a special role. Since Heifer is active in 125 countries and their supporters are equally far flung, pictures
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The nonprofit sector needs the Be Fearless campaign spearheaded by The Case Foundation and its CEO Jean Case. Let’s be honest: If you are a regular reader here, you probably embrace change and risk well. But most of our larger and older institutions in the nonprofit sector avoid risk. We love our nonprofits, small and
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These days, social change online seems to always involve a central figure–a hero, if you would. Whether it’s the individual cause champion rallying online influencers and donors, or a benevolent foundation driving a program of change. Yet, in reality while the hero myth makes an attractive narrative it belies the truth. You need to be
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Yesterday was the fourth Social Media for Nonprofits conference, and the first one in Los Angeles. A packed room of nonprofits and individual activists gathered to learn best practices. The following blog is a summary of the first half sessions. A second blog post focusing on the final four sessions will be posted later today.
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