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What Does Your Organization Do? Draw It Out

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Guest Post by Jessica Pullano of the San Francisco Education Fund. My latest idea was to create an illustrated video to explain how we strengthen San Francisco public schools by: a) providing direct services to teachers and students like volunteer tutors and. First, I wrote the script that would narrate the video.

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50 Things That Shaped Our World in 1969

Association Adviser

Project Blue Book, the United States Air Force’s investigation into unidentified flying objects (UFOs), officially comes to an end on December 17, 1969. military communications project with the goal of connecting computers. On August 21, Donald and Doris Fisher opened the first Gap store in San Francisco.

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Key Takeaways from PCMA’s Convening Leaders 2020

Velvet Chainsaw

The Professional Convention Management Association’s Convening Leaders in San Francisco In early January served as an engaging and energizing way to kick off a new year and a new decade. Back in the day, PCMA was dependent on active volunteers to move issues and projects forward.

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Trusting community organizers to build a multiracial democracy

Candid

Fund, the San Francisco Foundation, and the California Wellness Foundation, have long partnered with power-building organizations such as Oakland Rising and statewide networks like PICO California. The Bay Area Power Building Funder Table has brought foundations together to share best practices and take on collaborative projects.

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How a Nonprofit Helps Deliver on a Musical Act’s Ambitions

Associations Now

One way the association has shown its influence is through the Fifty for the Future project. One of the reasons we started our festival in San Francisco is because … we needed to re-establish ourselves as a group from San Francisco,” she explained. This is where we live.”. Look to the future.

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NextDoor Neighbors Make Great Online Communities

Higher Logic

Once your address is verified through your phone number or credit card, you gain access to your neighborhood’s private, micro community -- I just joined mine for San Francisco, and it’s approximately a two block by two block piece of Cow Hollow. NextDoor coined itself as the “private social network for your community.”

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.17.20

Reid All About it

This pasta al limone from Bon Appetit reminds me of a dish I had for lunch one day in a restaurant in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. Presenter: Marjorie Anderson, Founder of Community by Association and Manager of Digital Communities at Project Management Institute. More info/register. More info/register.

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