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How the Global Mobile Revolution is Transforming Philanthropy

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Quite simply, the release of the first iPhone® on June 29, 2007 (my 35th). To anyone and everyone reading this now, no matter your age or location in the world, you are about to experience—and hopefully help pioneer—the most consequential evolution in Internet technology yet: the Global Mobile Revolution. 4) SOCIAL MEDIA.

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Support for our fallen is down. I’m not driving a semi, but I’m joining the parade.

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The annual wreath laying continued as a simple company project until a picture of Arlington gravestones adorned with wreaths, covered in snow was picked up on social media in 2005. In 2007, I met a young mother at Arlington Cemetery who requested we lay a wreath together on her son’s grave. “I have never forgotten that.

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Can You Crowdsource Your Next Big Fundraising Idea?

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Dell’s IdeaStorm launched in 2007 and since then, 23,000 ideas have been submitted and 550 have been implemented. The program didn’t result from a brainstorming session of nonprofit staff, but was created by a volunteer in Colorado and implemented locally in 2007. Not surprisingly, they also tend to be the best fundraisers.

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