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June Cause Awareness: LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

Qgiv

Learning about the people that brought the movement to life and the reason why Pride Month exists will help you better understand the meaning of the month! Many nonprofits that organize Pride events will be in need of volunteers throughout June to help organize and make their parades, rallies, and celebrations a success! QC Pride, Inc.

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$16M Raised. 2M Dips.

DipJar

The idea for the first DipJar came from founder Ryder Kessler in 2008 as a way to tip coffee shop baristas. When the team realized that DipJar could help nonprofit organizations raise critical funds to support their work, we were ecstatic. Our passion to help them achieve fundraising success has only increased as a result.

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How To Use Information You Already Have To Personalize Constituent Experiences Online

NTEN

Aimy Wiley, Capital Area Food Bank of Texas. [Ed. I recently started coordinating the online development for the Capital Area Food Bank of Texas, a mid-sized food bank serving 21 counties in Central Texas. If you don’t have a system that does this yet, get help and find one - it’s the now. Geographic location.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The mission of the Lavelle Fund is to support programs that help people with visual impairments, including blindness, lead independent, productive lives. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities. government and states like Texas.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Today I’m in San Antonio, Texas, for the American College of Preventive Medicine annual conference. It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Now for indirect content or Mash-ups.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. There are over 200,000 professional artists in the US — and a bunch of them have problems the techies could help solve.

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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

Have Fun - Do Good

Carolyn LeCroy "After serving time in prison, Carolyn LeCroy started The Messages Project to help children stay connected with their incarcerated parents. Liz McCartney "Dedicated to helping Hurricane Katrina survivors in St. Since November 2000, he has helped more than 420 people in southeastern Mexico, free of charge."

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