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Salesforce Employees & Tsofen Prepare Israel’s Arab Students for Jobs in Tech

Saleforce Nonprofit

Let’s zoom in on Israel; together with our partner, Tsofen , we are looking to ensure untapped talent can build social capital and achieve economic prosperity. Driven by a vision of a shared society, Tsofen aims to promote fair representation of Arabs in Israel’s booming hi-tech industry.

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. Tweet, Meet, Give Twestival has had the most success at scaling this model. An alternative approach is to experiment and find ways to improve results. .

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What is Lethal Generosity?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I first encountered the term when I read Shel Israel's , Twitterville (pp110-111). Shel tells the story of the holiday season 2008, when the city of Toronto Transit Authority canceled its New Year's eve free-ride transportation due to budget pressures. I literally gasped!

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

Tech Soup

The original version of Movements.org was founded in 2008 by then-U.S. Keyes notes some early examples of how the Movements.org crowdsourcing model is working: Activists in Russia connecting with a songwriter in New York to compose a catchy song for their cause. The Evolution of Movements.org: Making a Meeting Place for Human Rights.

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

Have Fun - Do Good

To start off, I asked Van to talk about the Ella Baker Center's Reclaim the Future program and how Oakland could become a model green city. Certainly, People's Grocery here in West Oakland is something that is celebrated as a model of bringing environmental solutions to people who need them. It is a mobile market. And that costs money.

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