Give greater focus to Professional Networking
We spend numerous hours on facebook, twitter, or even myspace advancing our personal networking. All this time on these sites is great to help you keep in touch with old friends, classmates, or colleagues, but how does it help advance your professional goals? We have seen numerous cases where instead of helping you, social networks can hinde

Volunteers Needed! The Community Food Bank Needs your Help
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Fundraising for your CBO-Thinking Outside the Box
During this economic recession, Community Benefit Organizations find themselves in need of even more resources to meet the increase demand for the social services the community-benefit sector provides. Its though to continue to provide the services that people need or depend on when the funding throughout the sector has been decreasing. In this video, David Zetland explains how to sell a dollar for more than a dollar. This got me thinking about how CBOs can leverage their existing dollars to bring in additional dollars to help their communities. CBOs need to be tactful in their fundraising efforts, below are five easy tips to help you in your fundrais

Join us for a night of great food, great people, and a great cause on 11/5/09 at BJ's Restaurant at
Mark your calendar for Thursday, November 5th 2009 to join us for dinner between 4:00pm and 10:00pm at BJ's Restaurant in Fresno. The American Humanics Program at Fresno State is partnering with BJ's Restaurant to bring you great food as you help us fundraise for a great cause.  For every person who visits BJ's Restaurant next Thursday, November 5th between the hours of 4:00 and 10:00pm AND brings the 

CBOs, Social Media, and the fear of Conflict
Conflict on Online Channels is what keeps many community benefit organizations (CBOs) from embracing online media for use with in their organization. It is with reason that CBOs fear people talking negatively about their organizations. When someone speaks ill of your CBO online, this can negatively impact your online reputation and if gone unchecked can exponentially increase the effects of the original incident.  Should your organization's fear of conflict stop you from reaping the benefits of online media? Online media is new to CBOs and we are all still trying to figure things out. However, just like in the traditional media, there ar