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Favorite Have Fun Do Good Books of 2010

Have Fun - Do Good

Below is my 6th annual list of favorite have fun, do good books that I read this year. We read Farm City as part of my virtual social change book club. That said, it's an extremely important book that everyone should read. I'd never had much luck with meditation until I read this book. It has truly been life-changing.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Previously served as CEO of The Seany Foundation, a pediatric cancer foundation. Teach For America. Kimberly Mitchell. National University. Caryn York.

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Secret Agent L: Covering the Globe with Random Acts of Kindess

Have Fun - Do Good

I started this project back in July of 2009 at the prompting of a friend who was out of state and was having a birthday. The two of us went to a local hospital during a cancer expo, and we basically, for lack of a better word, we hijacked the place. I just don't want to have a birthday." We knew that would be the perfect place.

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SXSW: Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam - Slides, Links, and Poems (long)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Can teach field to use. Teach chapters to document their own disasters on their own newsrooms so we can aggregate a national picture of data of how much the org does in a day when you won’t hear a word about it. Oh my god, take a look. set goals: decrease number of incoming media calls. increase transparency about disaster response.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

TweetsGiving 2009. The Free Rice Game has generated enough rice to feed millions of people since it started in October 2007 or a total of 70,991,387,110 grains of rice as of October 2009. He describes last Thanksgiving's Tweetsgiving campaign and Blame Drew's Cancer campaign. .

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