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September Cause Awareness: National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

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Suicide is a leading cause of death for individuals around the world, and September is an important time to have conversations to break down the stigma around mental illness and treatment for mental health. Edwin Shneidman (left) at his home in Los Angeles, California with Maurizio Pompili, who was the recipient of the 2008 Shneidman Award.

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The Mother-Led Movement to Save Our Kids’ Climate

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Even as a child, I was always drawn to all the great causes out there. Our Kids’ Climate is a global collaboration of 58 climate-parent groups from 23 countries, working together to engage parents, caretakers, and families in climate action. The letter reached an estimated 500 million people through global media.

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9 Social Media for Social Good Sites You Should know About

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These new websites enable people to support the causes they’re passionate about and connect with like minded individuals – inspiring further interaction, engagement and support. 2) Causes – [link]. One of the key’s to the success of Causes is their Create a Cause Wish for Charity concept.

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How to Raise Money for Your Favorite Cause with America's Giving Challenge and the Causes Giving Challenge

Have Fun - Do Good

Everyone's buzzing about the Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge and the Causes Giving Challenge. Want to help out your favorite cause? Here's how: How to Join America's Giving Challenge (December 13, 2007-January 31, 2008) 1. Choose a cause you care about in the U.S. Based Charity" or "Select a Global Cause."

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

2008 SXSW Panel: Pimp Your Nonprofit Cause photo by Ed Schipul. In 2008, we wore funny hats to go with the theme of our panel. Last year was a global discussion about free agents with remote colleagues in the Middle East. Susan Gordon, Causes and Robert Rosenthal, VolunteerMatch. Under the Social Good Hood.

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Top 3 Trends to Fool Proof your Future Fundraisng

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billion in 2008, the council’s fourth annual “Run Walk Ride Thirty” study reports. This stems from the idea that for-profits should be engaging and giving back to their local communities, the environment, and to social causes. According to stats from the RUN. conference of 2010 [1] the top thirty “ thon ” (i.e. The collective $133.9

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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let’s look at the possible factors that caused philanthropy to run wild and capture the attention of so many people, inspire them to participate, and donate to stop the disease. 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause. I chronicled some of these back in 2008.

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