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Connect2Compete: The Biggest Digital Inclusion Project in the U.S.

Tech Soup

Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground. in Philadelphia. It is part of an ongoing national effort to bridge the digital divide in the United States. How the Project Got Going.

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How Can Changebloggers Make a Greater Impact Online and Offline?

Have Fun - Do Good

The 2008 DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge for public schools is happening this month. Bloggers compete against each other to raise the most money for specific projects in low-income public schools. Members of the Changeblogger Network have started meeting face-to-face in New York , Washington, DC and Philadelphia.

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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

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Yohannes Gebregeorgis "Moved by the lack of children's books and literacy in his native Ethiopia, Yohannes Gebregeorgis established Ethiopia Reads , bringing free public libraries and literacy programs to thousands of Ethiopian children." She and volunteer camera crews have taped roughly 3,000 inmate messages." Her nonprofit St.

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How to Leverage Celebrities for Fundraising - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Some prominent celebrities in the nonprofit world are Bono ( One Campaign ), Mary Tyler Moore ( Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation ), Bon Jovi ( Philadelphia Soul Charitable Foundation ), and Michael J. The attention they received and the pleas they made to the public for donations were exceptionally effective. All rights reserved.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

Each fall since 2008 MNN has hosted an annual conference and expo. Net Impact / Philadelphia, PA / $509. Join us November 3-5 in Philadelphia, a city where revolutions are made, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. National LGBT Task Force / Philadelphia, PA / $325. General / #fcny / @FastCompany. State/Local.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Both the national government and Seoul Metropolitan Government have passed rules guiding “Public Procurement for Realization of Social Values.” As a result, the total value of Seoul’s public procurement from social economy enterprise more than tripled between 2012 and 2018, growing to 136.9 39 This is a tiny share of the U.S.

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