Kickstarter.com – Funds for Creative Ideas
Kickstarter.com – Fun...
Entrepreneurs, artists or individuals with creative ideas are looking for funding. Somewhere out there are individuals or groups looking to help fund the right ideas. Traditionally, finding each other has not been easy. In this article, I discuss an exciting new website – kickstarter.com,...
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ArtReach Toronto
ArtReach Toronto...
ArtReach Toronto is an innovative youth focused and youth driven program with a mandate to support arts initiatives that engage youth who have experienced exclusion in under-served areas of Toronto. With strong financial support from all three levels of government, funding organizations...
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Saeed Selvam and Valerie Fernandes: Changing Communities for the Better
Saeed Selvam and Valeri...
Saeed Selvam and Valerie Fernandes are the inspired leaders behind Change12 – an entirely youth led organization dedicated to realizing youth focused social change. Change12 was born in 2007 from Saeed’s vision of starting an organization that would bring about youth led change...
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Kaitlyn Braybrooke: Achieving Social Change Through Web 2.0
Kaitlyn Braybrooke: Ach...
As a generation, Millennials are engaged, inspired and active; their stories are being told by VELOCITY – a blog showcasing Millennials doing things that are inspiring, interesting and engaging in their communities. This is the second article in a series focusing on Millennial...
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Funding Strategies for Non-Profit Technology Projects
Funding Strategies for ...
I am pleased to announce that I have been invited to present a workshop on developing funding strategies for technology projects for the My Charity Connects Conference taking place on June 8 and 9 2009 at Mars Discovery District in Toronto. My Charity Connects is a conference put...
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Donors Should Be Able to Give Through Your Website
Donors Should Be Able t...
Non-profit organizations stand to gain significantly by accepting donations through their website; however the fact is that most NPOs’ websites do not handle online donations. According to a Kintera/Luth Nonprofit Trend Report, 1 “65 percent of donors visit at least one of the...
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Financing for Entrepreneurs Ages 18-34
Financing for Entrepren...
Successful entrepreneurs are passionately commitment to their dreams, they receive guidance from professional mentors and have access to sufficient start-up cash. The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) provides all three. CYBF is a Canada wide, non-profit organization that...
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Are You Interested in Volunteering?
Are You Interested in V...
April 19th to 25th, 2009 is National Volunteer Week. National Volunteer Week celebrates and acknowledges the efforts of Canadian volunteers. National Volunteer Week is an annual campaign organized by Volunteer Canada – a national organization involved in volunteer research, training,...
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DonorsChoose.Org – Fundraising through Crowd Sourcing
DonorsChoose.Org –...
Donorschoose.org is an American social networking site that connects US schools in need with individuals who want to help. Welcome to the future of fundraising and approaching donors. Generation X and the Millennial Generation are ready and willing to donate. However, traditional...
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Canadian Millennials Are Socially Engaged
Canadian Millennials Ar...
Canadian Millennials care about changing the world for the better… and they will. A common misconception is that they are politically disengaged. It’s just the opposite. Canadians under 30 are actively engaged, however the majority are just not civically engaged in a traditional...
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