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

Saleforce Nonprofit

Senior Humanitarian Climate Crisis Advisor, Save the Children International. Working in Save the Children International’s Anticipatory Action team, Emma’s role is focused on strengthening capacities and approaches to prevent or minimize the impacts of extreme weather events on children. Mia Blakstad.

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Guest Post: Murphy’s Law — sometimes simpler is better in technology for volunteer management

Twenty Hats

Some people emailed me their availability while others signed up on a google sheet (Google Forms wasn’t even a thing then, it came out in 2008). As part of this work, Emily supports staff members to learn, use, and love their data and technology, adding capacity to teams and organizations that need additional technical knowledge and skill.

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. 1 But let’s compare their numbers for 2008, the year for which the Chronicle recently reported. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion. Why the difference?

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. We can tap into local knowledge because our reports are coming from the source.

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A Reflection on Networked Professional Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many years ago before the digital cameras and children, my husband used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography. I use knowledge trees, outlines, and focused thinking to identify what I need to learn and questions I need to ask. Black-Crowned Night Heron.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Really, How Many.

ASU Lodestar Center

The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008. On one of the pages, amid all the charts on who volunteers and what they do, is a big banner depicting the following result: "33 percent of Arizona adults volunteered in 2008." One in three. But is it right? One in four.

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Google Announces Project 10^100 for World-Changing Ideas - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

link] October 10, 2008 | FChristie I think that this is a great contest. v=cb71fk-79Uc Also, full details of my idea can be found at: www.quidproquohealthmanagement.com October 11, 2008 | Jonathan Barry my name is anandbabu and iam from vishakapatnam in india.i October 14, 2008 | N.anandbabu Hi Friends. I have submitted my idea.

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