Your nonprofit keeps hearing about the power of this new Peer-to-Peer phenomenon, charity streams, and they’ve decided to give it a go! You’ve been given the task of hiring someone to manage it all and you are not quite sure where to start or what to ask. You’re also, no doubt, very busy with your …
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02-01-2023 ~ Spotlight: Empowering Success Now
A local nonprofit in Fontana, CA called Empowering Success Now helps students and adults to have the resources they need to succeed in their chosen paths. In addition to lots of resources for small businesses, an afterschool homework help program and their College Plus program, with its four Success Pathways for high school students who …
01-11-2023 ~ A Wish To Build A Stream On
Charity streams are bringing in big bucks for the organizations that participate, as seen with Jingle Jam 2022 raising over $4M for 12 wonderful charities, including Dogs for Autism. We’ve written before about the power of gamers and streamers to raise money for charity with their community in our post Going Beyond The Call of …
07-27-2022 ~ We Can Rebuild Them
A firm called 3DBio Therapeutics has successfully transplanted a printed ear made from the patient’s own cells for the first time ever. Their trial of 11 patients included a 20-year-old woman born with congenital microtia, a disease that left her with a misshapen ear. The surgical team took a precise 3-dimensional scan of her other …
07-20-2022 ~ Stunning Stellar Shots
Back in January, we shared our excitement about the James Webb telescope, the “Gold-Plated Marvel”… now we get to gaze in amazement at the stunning images that have been sent back. From its vantage point about 1 million miles from Earth, the telescope– the biggest and most sensitive to have been launched into space to …
03-23-2022 ~ Saving Food While Preserving Community
Fighting food waste and hunger with solar food dehydrators has trasnformed the lives of women in India. Tens of thousands of pounds of food go to waste each year in India, often because of lack of refrigeration. An innovative company called Science 4 Society has started tackling this problem alongside the issues of poverty and …
10-27-2021 ~ It Takes a Village
Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. Take for example, the ability to speak to the people we interact with on a daily basis. When we say hello and thank you, we rarely think of the impact of being able to say and hear those things. In this video we get to see the …
A Powerful Partnership For Your Pivot
Vendor Spotlight: Event.Gives Last year’s unprecedented circumstances saw a dramatic increase in how much we lean on each other, both as individuals and as organizations. We’ve read and shared countless stories of neighbors helping neighbors, Buy Nothing groups flourishing and book clubs organizing vaccine distribution in their small town. And we, as an organization, have …
11-18-2020 ~ When A Swarm Becomes A Cascade
This rarely-seen natural wonder was harmlesly captured by a “spy hummingbird” drone, allowing us a peek into the moment an enormous swarm of Monarch butterflies wake from their winter rest and take flight. The warming spring sun is like a signal, telling them it’s time to stir, and stir they do! A well-executed fundraising event …
Being Extraordinary During Extraordinary Times
We are living in unprecedented times, when new “normals” are being introduced every day and advice given a week ago may already be outdated as governments try to manage the situation with ever-changing information. Their scramble is everybody’s scramble, and we are no exception. As our clients and colleagues do their best to make the …