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September Cause Awareness: National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

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Edwin Shneidman (left) at his home in Los Angeles, California with Maurizio Pompili, who was the recipient of the 2008 Shneidman Award. Sharing Kindness Sharing Kindness is an organization with a mission to provide education and programs for those experiencing grief throughout the Cape and Islands of Massachusetts.

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The End of an Era

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I moved to Oakland in September of 2008, for a number of reasons. But it has been in Oakland that I really could see with my own eyes, and get to know a lot of people who were "in my tribe"--that is being black, and choosing to be "alternative" (crunchy-spiritual/queer/hippie/punk.) I finally wasn''t alone anymore!

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The End of an Era

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I moved to Oakland in September of 2008, for a number of reasons. But it has been in Oakland that I really could see with my own eyes, and get to know a lot of people who were "in my tribe"--that is being black, and choosing to be "alternative" (crunchy-spiritual/queer/hippie/punk.) I met Ruth in Oakland - she is a long-time Oaklander.

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Has the Ice Bucket Challenge Spawned Charity Jacking?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the early days of social fundraising in 2008, Erin Ennis who took a winter dip in Vermont’s Lake Champlain as part of a personal challenge to raise money for Special Olympics Vermont. The data from Facebook illustrates how the campaign started in Massachusetts (where Frates is from) and spread across the country.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

PlatformX, an emerging platform cooperative seeking an alternative to the extractive capitalist model of Upwork or Amazon Mechanical Turk (platforms that help businesses outsource tasks and operations to freelancers), doesn’t take a commission and requires users to contribute to local charities or community-based organizations.

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