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View ArticleDoodling Nicolas Cage: How we keep work fun
If you’ve ever found yourself Googling “Nicolas Cage Disney Princesses,” you have something in common with at least 90% of Idealist employees. We’re not quite sure how it’s gotten to this point, but in...
View ArticleNonprofit Video 101: 3 tips to keep your videos on point
Lights, camera, questions: three things every video producer needs(photo courtesy Isaac via Flickr’s Creative Commons) It was my first week as the brand-new, in-house video producer at Idealist and I...
View ArticleSuperstitious? The writing’s on nonprofit walls
Did you realize it’s Friday the 13th? If you’re as superstitious as some of these nonprofit folks, you probably did. In honor of this special day, we asked our community about the weird traditions and...
View ArticleIdealist community (that’s you) steps up to help bring healing project to...
We love it when this happens. In an Ideal to Real story this past May, we profiled Ellen Severino, a Brooklynite interested in alternative medicine who’s striving to bring the Japanese spiritual...
View ArticleIdealist Gratitude: What Emily and Derek are grateful for this Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving, we asked our fellow Idealist staff members to reflect on a person or organization they’re grateful for. We’re posting their stories this week. We’d love to hear what’s stuffing you...
View ArticleIdealist Gratitude: What Celeste and Tim are grateful for this Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving, we asked our fellow Idealist staff members to reflect on a person or organization they’re grateful for. We’re posting their stories this week. We’d love to hear what’s stuffing you...
View ArticleIdealist Gratitude: What Becky and Joshua are grateful for this Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving, we asked our fellow Idealist staff members to reflect on a person or organization they’re grateful for. We’re posting their stories this week. We’d love to hear what’s stuffing you...
View ArticleIdealist Gratitude: What Jasun and all of us are grateful for this Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving, we asked our fellow Idealist staff members to reflect on a person or organization they’re grateful for. We’re posting their stories this week. We’d love to hear what’s stuffing you...
View ArticleWhat Idealist founder Ami Dar learned from his mom
Idealist founder Ami Dar is a pretty special guy. Israeli-born and raised in Mexico, he backpacked through South America as a young man with an idea reverberating in his mind: what if there were a...
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