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New Girl Effect Video: What Are Your Favorite NGO's Serving Girls?

Have Fun - Do Good

Many of you probably saw the original Girl Effect video in 2008, which laid out the connection between educating girls in the "developing" world and reducing poverty and HIV/AIDS. I was hesitant to promote the Girl Effect, just like I was when I wrote about it in 2008 , because it is produced by the Nike Foundation.

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Research Friday: Lessons in board governance

ASU Lodestar Center

In April of 2011, a story broke regarding The Central Asia Institute, a nonprofit organization. The Central Asia Institute is only one nonprofit organization that has fallen from grace due to poor nonprofit governance. We welcome your comments and feedback. Sources: 1.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Since 2008 Emma has been engaged in a wide range of climate-resilience building consortia projects, principally in East and West Africa, developing weather and climate information and services to support decision-making at local, national, regional, and international levels.

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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If your nonprofit does international development in Asia or Latin America, try Hi5 or Quepasa. As with Facebook in 2007 and Twitter in 2008, the early adopters began experimenting with location-based communities in 2009. The decision to invest time in these sites depends on your supporter base.

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YouTube Launches Nonprofit Program

Have Fun - Do Good

YouTube’s 2007/2008 Clinton Global Initiative commitment enables nonprofit organizations (in the U.S. Just got a press release this morning announcing the launch of the YouTube Nonprofit Program ! In the coming months, nonprofit channels will have a centralized area on YouTube, making them and their videos more easily discoverable.

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Busting the Overhead Myth: How can nonprofits convince stakeholders to invest in capacity building?

ASU Lodestar Center

It is a fact that nonprofits that spend too little on infrastructure have more limited effectiveness than those that spend a reasonable amount on it (Pallotta, 2008). It is time for the nonprofit sector as a whole to come together and educate the public and its funders about the importance of investing in capacity building. Gregory, A.

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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia. (He did some terrific reporting from the Web2.0 Development Conference in Rome last September).