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Giving When You're Unemployed: It Could Make You Happier and Wealthier

Have Fun - Do Good

A September 2007 Ode magazine article, Giving Makes Us Happy , describes a 60-year study by Paul Wink of Wellesley College that followed the lives of about 200 people. Arthur Brooks' September 2007 article in the Journal of Economics and Finance , Does Giving Makes Us Prosperous ?, There are so many ways to give.

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Training Your Staff: Online Alternatives

Tech Soup

Idealware , a partner of TechSoup's recently posted an article addressing how to train staff in simpler, more cost-effective ways. The use of video conferencing and webinars are great ways to not only teach new employees, but also it allows new information to reach the diverse staff in an effective manner.

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For the last two years we’ve been bombarded with articles from bloggers and the mainstream media that MySpace is dead. You don’t hear about it much anymore, but in 2007 there were many stories of how MySpace was helping bridge the digital divide because low-income youth were logging in and teaching themselves HTML code.

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#OceanLoveEarl: RIP Earl Kanter, MD – 12/23/21 – 6/23/13

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This honed his appetite for frolicking in the hurricane swells that sweep the ocean in late summer. He introduced surfing to the Jersey Shore in the 1960′s – He was an early adopter, teaching himself how to surf and owned the first Greg Noll surfboard. ” Dad’s Beach. He was an early adopter of SKYPE.

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Blog Day and One Web Day: Are You Participating?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

August 31, 2007 is the third annual Blog Day. I enjoyed Sopheap's recent post about public education about not littering in Cambodia ) After I get back in September, OneWebDay is next community web event on my calendar scheduled for September 22, 2007. On that day, you write a post recommending 5 blogs to read.

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A Kiva.org for Native American Entrepreneurs?

Have Fun - Do Good

"Our tribal colleges and universities teach sustainability in everything they do, proving American Indians have long been ahead of the curve. Census Bureau , the 2007 poverty rate of people who reported they were American Indian and Alaska Native, and no other race, was 25.3%. This is what we call 'Thinking Indian.'

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A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

» Friday Nov 09 2007 A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising Friday, November 9, 2007 at 02:38PM | by James OMalley Its November, crunch time for nonprofit fundraisers looking to cash in on some of the Yuletide cheer of the giving season. 2 Comments | by Share Article in Care2 News , Marketing Research , Misc.