Blog Tips for Organizations
Calling All Afterschool Artists
Posted by Beardy
April 07, 2009, 4:24 am
Calling all afterschool artists: the Afterschool Alliance is seeking artwork for their 2009 Lights On Afterschool poster. The winning student image will be printed on 50,000 posters and sent to afterschool programs from coast to coast for their Lights On Afterschool celebrations this October 22, and will be featured all year at
Internships Needed for High Schoolers!
Posted by Beardy
February 24, 2009, 2:29 pm
Could you use help with web design, business, media, event planning, or graphic design work at your organization?? The Pablo Neruda Academy for Architecture and World Studies (PNA) is looking for organizations that can provide a spring internship for one of their high school eleventh graders. PNA is a small public school in the Bronx has many students looking for unpaid internships this spring on Thursdays and Fridays from March 12 - May 1 (12 calendar days due to Spring Break schedule).
Creative Fundraising by Charles Best, Founder of DonorsChoose.org
Posted by AdminLinkEd
January 27, 2009, 1:20 pm
In 2005, DonorsChoose.org won the Amazon.com Nonprofit Innovation Award. It was a tight race, with a lot of noise. We spoke with the founder, Charles Best, about how they did it.
Can you give us some quick insider information and share your tricks on how you managed to beat the bigger beast (a.k.a. Teach For America)?
Financial Best Practices in Turbulent Times
Posted by AdminLinkEd
January 27, 2009, 1:19 pm
We interviewed Raj Thakkar, Founder & CEO of Charter School Business Management Inc. (CSBM) and asked him to give some tips on how to best manage your non-profit’s costs during this financial downturn. CSBM provides professional development and shares best practices, ensuring that business and operations leaders of charter schools are prepared to manage their non-academic responsibilities. CSBM is also an outsourced solution. Its trained and experienced staff members successfully manage finance, operations, human resources and compliance responsibilities for schools.
Planning the Perfect Conference
Posted by AdminLinkEd
January 27, 2009, 1:18 pm
The annual NewSchools Venture Fund Summit is the "it" conference in the education sector that has been run for 10 years in various locations across the country. This past year hundreds of prominent education leaders gathered for a day in DC to talk about the latest issues in education. But how do you make an event like this a success? We asked Julie Petersen, Communications Director at NewSchools Venture Fund, to enlighten us on the process.
