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How to Keep Donors Engaged Using Emerging Technologies

Cloud 4 Good

Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. To date, Pencils of Promise has built nearly 600 schools worldwide, and over 130K students are currently enrolled in those schools.

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China Social Entrepreneurs

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just received an update from KK Tse entitled The Most Inspiring Story from the Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship, talking about 1KG More, a social enterprise that implemented Voluntourism: combining backpacking with delivering books and other gifts for rural Chinese children.

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Be the Change! Share The Story! School Video Contest

Have Fun - Do Good

Dig out that camcorder 'cause Quantum Shift TV has launched a video contest with social impact for students in the U.S. Share the Story! Student teams will work on social or environmental projects of their choice and document their progress in a series of two short videos. and Canada grades one through twelve: Be the Change!

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Majora’s life journey is an inspiring story. She founded the nonprofit Sustainable South Bronx , was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and today leads the Majora Carter Group , an economic consulting firm she formed in 2008 to bring her approach to underserved communities across the country. Naturally, she was eager to escape.

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Gateway to the Arts: A Web Design Story

Tech Soup

In 2008, Gateway to the Arts was in need of a major overhaul. The three primary audiences (students, educators, and artists) are clearly laid out on the left navigation bar, and a fun color-coding system makes it easy to tell which section of the site you’re in. “Our website was a mess,” Lisa said. We had a non-logo.

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6 Road Trips Reveal Critical Lessons For Business Success

Eric Jacobsen Blog

And, if you’re like most everyone, you appreciate hearing a good story. Just imagine how intriguing it would be to hear stories about six road trips. While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies.

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The Lessons Learned From Small Businesses

Eric Jacobsen Blog

And, if you’re like most everyone, you appreciate hearing a good story. Just imagine how intriguing it would be to hear stories about six road trips. While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies.

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