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3 Things Every Board Member Should Know About Social Media

BoardAssist

That’s just one of the great pieces of advice we got from this week’s terrific guest blogger Anthony Pisapia of Philadelphia nonprofit Tech Impact. Which audience will help you raise the most money? Beth Kanter, the nonprofit social media guru, pointed out in 2008 that social media takes time.

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How Can Changebloggers Make a Greater Impact Online and Offline?

Have Fun - Do Good

October 15th was Blog Action Day , a day for bloggers, podcasters and vloggers to write about and raise awareness about an issue. For the month of September, Natasha Maw read and blogged in an effort to create awareness, and raise funds for Darfur. She read 31 books and raised $1,1136.60. The theme for this year was poverty.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Raising capital is an obstacle not only for cooperatives, of course—currently, fewer than 1 percent of all new small businesses are able to raise venture capital to help them grow.) Compounding the normal difficulties of raising capital, platform cooperatives face additional problem of larger start-up costs. trillion in assets.

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