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Empowering Young Children through Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of them was Vincent Law who is doing interesting work with teaching young children about giving and philanthropy. Empower Young Children through Philanthropy – guest blog post by Vincent Law, CEO and Founder at PhilanthroKids Academy. As you might know, the English word ‘Philanthropy’ has a Greek origin.

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Top 3 Trends to Fool Proof your Future Fundraisng

NetWits

For large nonprofits here is some even scarier news: the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported in October of 2010 that donations to the nation’s largest charities dropped 11% last year. The median expected change for nonprofits in 2010 was supposed to be an increase of 1.4%. conference of 2010 [1] the top thirty “ thon ” (i.e.

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5 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Personal Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times. Writing and Blogging: I’ve been writing Beth’s blog since 2004 and on this updated wordpress blog since 2010. All in all, I presented or facilitated over 50 keynotes, workshops, and webinars on the topic. That’s a long time.

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Wired for Philanthropy

Connection Cafe

I don’t know how many of you are old enough to remember Steve Martin in the movie “The Jerk” but there is a really funny scene where he explodes into exuberant jubilation when he realizes his name has “made” the phone book—he dances around and says, “The new phone book is here, I’m somebody now!”

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Foot Traffic Philanthropy: Location Based Mobile Application - CauseWorld

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on. There is a scaling system for Karma points - for example supporting a classroom is five points while sending a book to a library in a developing country is 100. trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on. Looks like my observation of fundraising 2.0

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Great reads from around the web on November 25th

Amy Sample Ward

ProjectRSS for describing projects (part of the Open Philanthropy effort) – I've recently come across this project from John Brennan (@worldlyjohn on Twitter) and am interested in what you all think about it! "Open Open Philanthropy is about sharing. Open Philanthropy is about community. The time is now.

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Great reads from around the web on January 24th

Amy Sample Ward

" New Research Proves the Business Case for Product Giving : PitchEngine : Get the Word Out™ – "New research from Indiana University concludes that businesses can do well by doing good through product philanthropy. " Is email going out with 2011?

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