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TweetsGiving: Show Your Gratitude With Epic Change

Amy Sample Ward

People donate to a shared cause in honor of that for which they are most grateful Funds raised will go to support the work of Mama Lucy Kampton ( @MamaLucy ), a ChangeMaker who has transformed her community in Arusha, Tanzania through her school Shepherd’s Junior. Tags: events fundraising africa epic change tweetsgiving.

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Three Ways Social Media Has Negatively Affected the Nonprofit Sector (and What We Can Do About It)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

From famine in Africa to war in the Middle East to global economic collapse, people are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by all the tweets, status updates, photos, and videos of gloom, doom, and despair. If it continues as it has, then I fear that many people will begin to check-out and become numb to our calls to action.

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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

Amy Sample Ward

FT.com / Weekend columnists / Tim Harford – Perhaps microfinance isn’t such a big deal after all – "Last December, I showed some unwitting prescience by worrying about a backlash against microfinance, the practice of providing small loans – or perhaps savings products or insurance – to poor people.

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Mostly, because I get to read blogs by people that aren’t on my list of feeds I read regularly. There is an interesting case study of the marketing of Tampax and Africa on the Cause Related Marketing Blog. And Katya tells us why Seth Godin is right about people being lazy and in a hurry, and gives us some tips on how to use that.

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Why I gave $20.09

Amy Sample Ward

years, I have been working extremely hard to build an organization from scratch that makes it really easy for people to find and share opportunities to make a difference. I started 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa with the simple goal of working fulltime on Social Actions by July 1st. fundraising campaign started: For the last 2.5

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Michelle, the consultant

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I kinda thought that was surprising, but in thinking about what I write, I realize that people could get the wrong idea (or, more accurately, fail to get the right idea.) And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry. Gotta work on that. So, what do I do?

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Bridging the Opportunity Divide – Empowering Youth to Imagine and Realize their Futures

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

a new company-wide initiative to create opportunities for 300 million young people around the world over the next three years. The initiative brings together an array of existing, new and enhanced global programs and partnerships that connect young people with better education, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities.

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