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Great reads from around the web on March 30th

Amy Sample Ward

Growing Virtual Roots – How our online efforts led to amazing offline results – A great case study in community organizing, on and offline, from Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. "From the nation’s first film festival for nonprofits and cause advocates, is officially accepting entries for the 2011 festival.

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5 Good Nonprofit Infographics

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Especially when they help reveal a lot of information in a visual format. World Giving Index Charities Aid Foundation looked at three different types of charitable behavior – giving money, giving time and helping a stranger and used the results to produce the “World Giving Index.&#

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Case Foundation Launches Change Begins With Me Contest: Winner Attends 2009 Presidential Inauguratio

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've had time offline, with family, and just relaxing. The winner will get to attend the Inaugural Ceremony and Hawaii Inaugural Ball! Here's the description from the Case Foundation Web Site: It’s easy to enter – just 2 simple steps: Think about what you can do to help your community. three-nights hotel stay. a Flip video cam.

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The 2009 America's Giving Challenge

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In 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge encouraged 70,000 individuals to help raise more than $1.8 Want to start or help a cause? million for nonprofit organizations. With the explosion of social media, America’s Giving Challenge hopes to get even more people involved this year and raise a lot more money for nonprofits.

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GiveMN 2012 Giving Day by the Numbers

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Note From Beth: I’m a huge fan of Giving Days because they raise the awareness, engagement, and donations to nonprofits and being generous. Last week, we watched as a national day of giving and awareness campaign for “Giving Tuesday” unfold and spur spikes in donations.

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Back to School, Back Online

Amy Sample Ward

This post originally written September 8, 2009. So, if your organization serves or engages with youth and you want to think about moving into social networking spaces, here are a few pointers to help you get started! The parties, the dances, the school events, they all helped shape many of the memories from being school-aged.

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How KaBOOM! Is Using a Networked Approach To Scale Social Change

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is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). In 2009, a dollar spent by the organization on online tools helped to improve 10 times as many neighborhoods as a dollar spent on playground equipment.

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