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Camp Management Software | How to Run a Successful Camp

Affnetz

Assemble a Talented Team: Recruit a team of experienced, passionate, and qualified instructors, counselors, and support staff who can bring your STEAM camp to life. You can also promote at school fairs, newsletters and other social events. Will the curriculum be flexible? Is it a ‘learn at your own pace’ program?

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How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Paul Cann Current global estimates suggest that 1 in 4 older adults experience social isolation, and 5 to 15 percent of adolescents experience loneliness. Weak social connections cause a higher risk of early death; these are also linked to anxiety, depression, suicide, dementia, and the increased risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke.

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Education Transformation Against All Odds

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance. Public schools, which serve about 40 percent of Lebanons 1.1 million students, have been particularly affected.

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Nonprofit Board Give, Get or Get Off?

Affnetz

Some Nonprofit boards have a give, get, or get off policy and their Nonprofits are suffering because of it. For example, I worked with a local educational Nonprofit that served children in public housing communities. Recruit authentic voices from the community to the board of directors.

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Newsletter: The Role Case Studies Play in the Sales Funnel ; Are Store Openings Part of Your Cause Marketing Strategy? ; Close More Partnership Deals with Affability & Authenticity

Selfish Giving

These days I'm writing a lot of case studies for partnership teams that are eager to use "social proof" to recruit more corporate partners. It's about learning how to use the case studies as a tool to recruit partners. Or could you earn a donation whenever a policy is purchased? It's a wicked smahht strategy.

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Treasurers of All-Volunteer Organizations: Eight Key Responsibilities

Blue Avocado

AVOs are among the most important and most invisible building blocks of our communities: Members of all-volunteer organizations read to children, care for the dying, get clean water legislation passed, serve as volunteer fire departments, help people overcome alcoholism, bring music into prisons, and help refugees get settled.

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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most importantly, the initiative was focused on the policy-related goal of health equity, not greater community power. During its decade-long journey through Building Healthy Communities, TCE learned many lessons that continue to inform its approach to grantmaking and social change advocacy. TCE listened.