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TweetsGiving: Show Your Gratitude With Epic Change

Amy Sample Ward

Scheduled for November 24 – 26, 2009 , the 48-hour event created by Epic Change will encourage participants to express their thanks using online tools and at live events. Last year, funds from TweetsGiving helped build a classroom in Tanzania. Learn more and show your gratitude! Why TweetsGiving?

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students. Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. With these tools, our goal is to make the defenders of human rights stronger in their fight against injustice and abuse. Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures?

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Great reads from around the web on October 28th

Amy Sample Ward

the question of ownership will be directly tied to who has access to the necessary tools to build on the "land." The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude." As we inch closer to Web 3.0, " Indigenous Mapping: Emerging Cultures on the Geoweb: Where 2.0

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Great reads from around the web on October 28th

Amy Sample Ward

the question of ownership will be directly tied to who has access to the necessary tools to build on the "land." The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude." As we inch closer to Web 3.0, " Indigenous Mapping: Emerging Cultures on the Geoweb: Where 2.0

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.” From its humble beginnings, DonorsChoose.org has cumulatively raised $335 million and funded nearly 600,000 classroom projects. Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom. This includes some of the most basic student essentials. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2009.

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Forum One Staff Share OpenGov Ideas

Forum One

On January 21, 2009, the White House issued the Transparency and Open Government Memorandum. On December 8, 2009, OMB released the Open Government Directive (OGD), which provided specific guidance on fulfilling the vision set forth in the January memorandum. Vote for this Idea].

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