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What Nonprofits Can Learn at Games for Change Festival

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Back in 2007, I presented and attended at the Games for Change Festival. Over the past few years, games and mobile platforms have become more and more important for nonprofits to pay attention to for their communications strategy.

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How To Put Social Fundraising On Steroids: Community Giving Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was an early adopter of this approach back in 2006 and over the years I have had the opportunity to raise over $250,000 for a charity that supports Cambodian children using these techniques as part of online giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge.

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Target Facebook Challenge: Ten Large Charities Compete for Votes To Divide the $3 Million Pot

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's called Bullseye Gives, a special Facebook page inviting folks to decide how they should allocate $3 million among ten large institutional charities, including: Parent Teacher Association Feeding America The Salvation Army American Red Cross National Parks Foundation Breast Cancer Research Foundation St.

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Writing to Change the World

Have Fun - Do Good

This year's speaker was journalist, Samantha Power , who received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. Anya Achtenberg will be teaching an online workshop, Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World, later this year. You can subscribe to her blog here.

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Advice for the College Senior Who Wants to Make a Difference

Have Fun - Do Good

Research classes/workshops in a skill I want to learn. This fantastic book is filled with profiles of social change visionaries like Priya Haji , CEO and Co-Founder of World of Good ; Katie Redford Co-Founder and US Office Director of Earth Rights International; and Wendy Kopp , Founder of Teach for America. Sign up for it.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Oxfam America and HSUS: Not just Talking about Social Media, Using It

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Called “Web 2.0 – New Outreach and Fundraising Techniques,” the topic of this workshop is something every nonprofit marketing manager and online communications professional wants to talk about. 23rd, 2007 · No Comments Great post on the C*nvio Summit here from See3. These donations go to fund Oxfam America programs worldwide.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

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I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. There are long histories of highly-engaged participatory governance and cultural work around the world, and in many ways, America''s obsession with the individual may be more of a hindrance than a help to projects here.

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