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4 Tips to Optimize Your Donor Database to Boost Engagement

Ann Green

Familial information: Makes your interactions with donors more personal and allows you to involve their spouse, children, and other family members in your mission. Sarah is responsible for managing the production and customer support department, which focuses on client contract fulfillment, retention, and satisfaction.

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Co-Leadership for Bottom-Up Transformation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In 2024, when Global Fund for Children (GFC) announced that I would transition from global managing director to co-CEO alongside John Hecklinger (who had been sole CEO and president for over six years) it was the next step in a co-leadership journey that began several years earlier with co-leaders at other levels.

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Key Qualities and Skills to Look for in Potential Board Members

Blue Avocado

. — Susan Dibble from Page Ahead Children’s Literacy Program Caring Comes First, Everything Else Can Be Taught Our board members must care about our mission. We serve children with disabilities and developmental delays, children that many don’t realize are in our community.

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Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This is apparent in families divided by online conspiracies, in children's struggles with social media-driven anxiety, in neighborhoods where local businesses struggle while corporate profits soar, and in the easy stereotypes many people reach for about urban elites or rural flyover country that mask our shared humanity.

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Building an Economy with Purpose: The Transformative Potential of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Curated Lifestyle on Unsplash This article introduces a three-part series— Building Wealth for the Next Generation: The Promise of Baby Bonds —a co-production of NPQ and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School for Social Research in New York City. Baby bonds are a prime example of this shift.

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The Problem of Clothing Donations in LA and Beyond

NonProfit Quarterly

A vertically integrated sewing and production shop, since its founding in 2017 SUAY Sew Shop has diverted over 3.5 The LA-based organization creates new products using deadstock, postconsumer waste, and domestically grown organic fibers. We are all children of immigrants. million pounds of textile waste from landfills.

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What is the Secret to Successful Grant Writing?

Blue Avocado

For example: “Because of your gift, more children will read at this grade level. ” Avoid non-specific generalized statements along the lines of “200 children will attend and get a free book with a piece of pizza.” Submissions may be edited for length and clarity. Your Voice Matters!

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