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What Is Volunteerism? A Guide to the History & Benefits

Bloomerang

These issues include climate-related disasters, diseases, poverty, and other problems that present major roadblocks to peace and prosperity. This is why volunteerism has played such a major role throughout history. In this guide, we’ll take a broad look at volunteerism to explore its history and benefits.

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2019 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

7: World Health Day — #WorldHealthDay. 10: World Mental Health Day — #WorldMentalHealthDay. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay. 10: World Mental Health Day — #WorldMentalHealthDay. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay.

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America’s Broken Safety Net—and How to Address It: An Interview with Alissa Quart

NonProfit Quarterly

By the end of it, I was asking myself: “Why do people think poverty is their fault? Two or three subjects in my book relied on it for school lunches, for medical care, all the stuff that again is not covered by health insurance. Alissa Quart: Definitely, it builds on Squeezed. My tagline for Squeezed was: “It’s not your fault.”

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2018 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar

Nonprofit Tech for Good

7: World Health Day — #WorldHealthDay. 10: World Mental Health Day — #WorldMentalHealthDay. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay. 10: World Mental Health Day — #WorldMentalHealthDay. 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty — #EndPoveryDay.

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What do consumers around the world think of corporate social responsibility?

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

While the majority of consumers believe that companies have the power and duty to support several issue areas (from education to the environment to health to human rights and to hunger), economic development is the most popular. Philanthropy and volunteerism, especially at the local community level, remain CR priorities.

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Arab American Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

Arab American giving is deeply personal Survey respondents’ personal histories impacted their giving priorities, particularly in the areas of education, health, and refugee support, including emergency relief. I don’t live in poverty. I’m tremendously thankful for that, and to have education and health care.”

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How Nonprofits Can Tweet Effectively During the #SOTU

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Rather than scrambling to put together tweets in real-time, guesstimate what issues will be mentioned (education, health care, poverty, immigration, environment, criminal justice reform, jobs, civil rights, international relations, #PowerToThePolls , #MAGA , etc.)