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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. Teach For America. Prior to this, he established an in-house “Zero Hunger” innovation accelerator and created an award winning crowdfunding smartphone app, ShareTheMeal.

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Giving the Gift of Accessibility

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We came up with a book wishlist for donors who wanted to pitch in and buy specific books requested by Bookshare members. One donor made a special offer to our top volunteers, those who have provided at least 150 books to Bookshare: that they could request any one book and we'd (not they!) Pavi • What a great present!

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On saints and advocates

Connection Cafe

I have been reading the wonderful book Forces for Good, by Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant, where this dilemma is presented quite starkly. But what’s fascinating about the organizations studied in this book, is that they have all done both.

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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. It was something that I believed in, and I really like hungered for. I think that the earlier we can teach people about kindness, the better opportunities we have for positive results.

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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. All you had to do was click and play a word game, and that leveraged a food donation to fight hunger. If the dollar amounts from fundraising campaigns using social networks are disappointing, one response is to say this doesn't work and stop doing it. The game was very engaging for adults and children alike. .

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