February 2012
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10 tips for communicating effectively with your... →
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What makes an effective non-profit?
While this is only an excerpt from a paper, it has some amazing insight into what makes for an effective non-profit. This is an extremely long post, due to the fact that a majority of what has been posted is posted from the paper.
Qualities and Characteristics Common to Effective Nonprofits
The five qualities and characteristics that follow are common to effective nonprofits.
Clear...
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Valentine's Day and the spirit of giving
Reflecting on Valentine’s Day, many celebrate this day as a day of giving and love for those in their lives.
Non-profit organizations consistently take that spirit of giving, spreading it further than one day a year. Constantly giving back to the community, non-profit organizations are giving in various ways that many tend to overlook or take for granted.
Exploring CreateAthon this year,...
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Client Meeting number 2- VASS
Due to the fact that I couldn’t attend my original client meeting with VASS for more than five minutes, I set up another client meeting for today. I met up with the president of VASS, as well as the financial advisor for the program as well.
This all sounds extremely formal in the first paragraph, so I’m going to lighten up on the formal talk for a minute.
VASS is amazing. Meeting...
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What do you love to do?
It’s been a couple of weeks since the class started.
This post is supposed to be a reflection on what I’ve learned through CreateAthon so far. While I can’t say that I haven’t learned anything so far, to put into exact words what I’ve learned is definitely going to be hard. That and I’m not really sure what to say for this post. I know I’ve stated in a...
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See the good that's being done!
passion-ade:
Make sure to check out the various tumblr’s from each of the CreateAthon team leaders!!!!
This will show you each of our pictures, and you can click on each of the pictures to be taken to the tumblr directly!!!
http://www.createathononcampus.org/blog.php Each of our tumblrs focus on a different nonprofit from the Richmond area. Take a look at them and see how we’re helping out the...
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Knowledge and education DO pay off
I went over this campaign in my previous post, but I really wanted to pay emphasis to the campaign done by College Board.
Here is the link to the campaign for education advocacy done by College Board: http://advocacy.collegeboard.org/fivewaysedpays
The simplicity of the campaign, along with the message and the various facts that go along with it, is extremely powerful. The message is simple,...
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How do you promote education?
Finding advertisements promoting education wasn’t exactly the easiest. However, it does give me an idea of what kind of obstacles are out there when trying to promote the benefits of education to the public. There’s three different campaigns going on here, each promoting education in their own way. Links to each of the websites and the images have also been provided beneath the blurbs...
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Top Ranked National Education Nonprofits
These are some top ranked nonprofits from around the United States. The cause that is stated, shares the same views as my nonprofit that I’m working with for CreateAthon onCampus here at VCU. Looking at their cause, I can get a better idea of what Virginia Advanced Study Strategies (VASS) is trying to accomplish with their program.
The Cause: The US has a high reading literacy rate at 98%...
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Who is VASS trying to reach out to?
Virginia Advanced Study Strategies (VASS) is trying to reach out to the youth in the commonwealth of Virginia. This is an extremely broad definition of their audience, so I’ll clarify some. VASS is trying to connect with those that are around the ages of 12-17, trying to push them to understand the academic standards that lie within our system. They’re trying to open up the...
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What does education mean in the United States,...
VASS (Virginia Advanced Study Strategies for those who haven’t read some of the earlier posts) is an academically focused non-profit organization. Throughout each state and commonwealth within the United States there is an advanced education program that has been instated.
The lack of AP, IB, and other advanced courses in impoverished inner-city high schools is often seen as a major cause of the...
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5 Lessons for Associations and Nonprofits from...
This is a page that I found with relations to nonprofit organizations and Superbowl commercials, and basically what one can pull or learn from the other.
I think with these 5 lessons, many of us can focus in on what we can give back to our nonprofits individually, as well as what nonprofits can take away for the future.
The links that are attached are links to various videos that go along...
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Pepsi Chooses Nonprofits over Super Bowl...
This is an article from a year ago on how Pepsi-Cola chose to go with nonprofits over advertising for the Superbowl. A bold move on Pepsi’s part. And yet, at the same time, an honorable move that we all have to respect. Hearing about this makes me respect Pepsi even more and not just because I grew up in a Pepsi family. When large corporations and companies choose to give back to nonprofits,...
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January 2012
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The State of State Science Standards
Many may be wondering what this has to do with CreateAthon, but I assure you, it has a lot to do with what I’m doing for CreateAthon. The nonprofit organization that I’m working with, Virginia Advanced Study Strategies (VASS), has a large interest in making sure that students gain an adequate understanding and have a proficient knowledge of the fields of mathematics and science. ...
