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Ep251: This Social Enterprise is Using Shea Butter to Grease Wheels of Progress for African Women

Selfish Giving

Her social enterprise Shea Yeleen markets and distributes high quality skincare products, while providing living wages to cooperative members in Northern Ghana. The line of shea butter products is being distributed through retailers such as Whole Foods, MGM Resorts and Amazon. Why did you decide to form a for-profit business?

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Making Food Systems Work for People of Color: Six Action Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Oladimeji Odunsi on unsplash.com How do you support development across the food system in a way that builds community ownership and power for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities? This is a question that a group of food system activists of color have come together to address. This work is worth supporting.

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Amanda Maksin

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

SDD is a social enterprise of the Westmoreland Community Action (a nonprofit in Greensburg, PA), and is located in Mount Pleasant, PA. This provides money for the nonprofit programs like Head Start, mental health programs, food pantries, etc. Would YOU like to be featured in this series? It opened its doors in April 2012.

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Nonprofits: Upgrade Your Social Media Marketing Strategy through Social Media Automation

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Social Media Optimization Tips for Nonprofits and NGOs. A special guest post by Chris Makara to help nonprofits, NGOs and Social Enterprises understand the benefits of Social Media Automation. In fact, social media’s low barrier to entry, ease of management, access to local and remote markets, etc.

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How to Advance a Regenerative Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

Fellows include an Indigenous creatives’ collective, food share programs, a systems design consultancy, a driver’s union, and a community-owned real estate developer. Based in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District, R2G turns restaurant food scraps into compost for the neighborhood’s elder gardeners. R2G Volunteers.

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10 Powerful Twitter Marketing Tips [That Work like Magic]

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

For instance, If you are at a restaurant or cafe, you can search for a food item specifying your area like Pizzas in Sepia, chicken tandoori in London etc. You may find at least one tweet of a person looking for the food place in your area and bingo your lead is right in front of you. Use Twitter to Listen, Not Just Talk.

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Using data to make LGBTQ+ elders and their needs visible 

Candid

Data from elders who attend SAGE’s five senior centers in New York City has shown that SAGE’s congregate meal programs, grab-and-go meal programs, and food pantries have helped participants improve their nutritional risk from high to medium risk to low over time.