Complete Streets Advocacy Training Is Coming To St. Louis
| Posted in GOOD News on Jul 29, 2011 |
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Are you interested in making your community more walkable, bikeable and accessible? Trailnet is partnering with MU Extension and Beyond Housing to offer a FREE Complete Streets Advocacy Training.
Many communities throughout our region, state, and nation are working to develop more complete streets. A Complete Street (also called a Livable Street) allows all residents to safely walk, bike, wheel, or drive around their community. Complete ...
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Nonprofit Insight Weekly Journal Of Federal Grant Opportunities - Week Of July 25
| Posted in Resource Roundup on Jul 29, 2011 by |
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This week, the U.S. Housing and Urban Development announced the availability of $95 million to support sustainable local initiatives through the FY 2011 Regional Planning and Community Challenge Planning Grant Programs from HUD’s Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities.
This year’s Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant program will encourage grantees to support regional planning efforts that integrate housing, land-use, ...
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Measuring Civic Engagement Efforts Sets Stage For Social Change
| Posted in Volunteerism on Jul 25, 2011 |
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W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant allows for the establishment of a national initiative to measure the impact and identify the best practices of civic engagement by the Alliance for Children and Families and United Neighborhood Centers of America (UNCA).
A $290,000, two-year grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation will support the Alliance for Children and Families and United Neighborhood Centers of America (UNCA) for the establishment of a ...
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Cancer Charities Nationwide Join Together To Raise Funds And Awareness For Their Unique Missions
| Posted in GOOD News on Jul 25, 2011 |
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Local and National Cancer Organizations unite in Third Annual Be Bold, Be Bald! Fundraiser.
What began with an idea and an inspiration, Be Bold, Be Bald! has become a national event which joins together all cancer charities for one day. On October 21, people all over the country will be wearing bald caps to honor cancer survivors and raise money to support their favorite cancer charities. During its first 2 years, national ...
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Cause Marketing Readings Of The Week - July 25
| Posted in Resource Roundup on Jul 25, 2011 by |
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Here’s the best of the best of cause marketing information from the last week:
7 Ways to Fire Up You Small Business Cause Marketing Effort
In today’s rocky economy small businesses may have the most to gain from integrating cause marketing into their marketing efforts. As always, I define cause marketing as "a relationship that bridges commerce and cause in a way that benefits both parties." Cause marketing has been shown to ...
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Leaders From The Nonprofit Sector To Set Forth Recommendations For Growing Philanthropy In USA
| Posted in Philanthropy on Jul 20, 2011 |
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Thirty-six of the leading U.S.-philanthropy experts, including nonprofit leaders, technology suppliers and consultants, and associations, recently gathered to discuss how the nonprofit sector can work together to grow the level of individual giving by Americans. The Growing Philanthropy Summit, held last month in Washington D.C., was sponsored by Blackbaud, Inc. and Hartsook Companies and was hosted by The Center on Philanthropy at ...
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Cause Layouts™ Provide Charities The First Free, Customized Graphics Marketing Tools For Fundraising On Facebook
| Posted in Technology on Jul 20, 2011 |
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Paxson Productions is pleased to announce the launch of Cause Layouts™, the first free marketing layouts that provide charities with Cause-Based Social Media Fundraising™ capability on the world’s most popular social network. At no cost to non-profits, Paxson Productions designs and develops customized Facebook® layouts to generate awareness and drive donations directly from supporters’ own Facebook profile pages.
Once a Facebook user ...
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Public Input Sought For The Mounds Heritage Trail Master Plan
| Posted in Government on Jul 18, 2011 |
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Public meetings have been scheduled to seek input and comments on the draft Master Plan for the Mounds Heritage Trail in both Illinois and Missouri. The first meeting will be at St. Louis City Hall, Room 208, 1200 Market Street on Tuesday, August 2 from 4:00 – 7:00 PM. The second meeting will be held on Thursday, August 4 at the Cahokia Mounds Museum, 30 Ramey St. Collinsville, IL also from 4:00 – 7:00 PM.
The Mounds Heritage Trail Master ...
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Nonprofit Insight Weekly Journal Of Federal Grant Opportunities - Week Of July 11
| Posted in Resource Roundup on Jul 15, 2011 by |
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This weekly journal includes early education partnerships to expand protective factors for children, start-up grants for digital humanities, and non-profit capacity building program grants.
Child Welfare -- Early Education Partnerships to Expand Protective Factors for Children
The Administration for Children and Families has announced the availability of infrastructure building grants to support collaborative initiatives between ...
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Growing Number Of Internationally-Recognized Nonprofits Depend On Smartsheet Project Management Tool
| Posted in Technology on Jul 13, 2011 |
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Teams at Red Cross, Salvation Army, Girl Scouts of America, Habitat for Humanity, Greenpeace, and United Way Use Smartsheet for Managing Projects.
Smartsheet.com’s intuitive online project management and collaboration tool has become a popular choice for many internationally-recognized charities and environmental activist groups. It has been adopted by teams at leading nonprofits such as Red Cross, Salvation Army, United Way, Greenpeace, ...
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DonorPerfect Fundraising Software Is Top Rated In Donor Management Report
| Posted in Fundraising on Jul 13, 2011 |
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For the second time in the two years that the report was compiled, DonorPerfect received the highest fundraising software ratings among all vendors in the recently updated report, "A Consumer's Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems," from independent nonprofit organizations, NTEN and Idealware.
After an extensive evaluation, both DonorPerfect Installed and DonorPerfect Online (our web-based fundraising solution) received more ...
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Two Young Social Media Entrepreneurs Develop What May Be The Next TOMS Shoes
| Posted in GOOD News on Jul 13, 2011 |
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Two young social media prodigies create a successful online clothing archetype for raising capital and awareness for charities. With outrageous success, the company has had even greater start-up impact than its "social-good" predecessor TOMS shoes.
When we hear the term “social entrepreneur” we tend to think philanthropy. But what happens when social media and social entrepreneurship collide? Southern California’s Dale Partridge, 26, ...
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