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What Happens at GEO Doesn’t Stay at GEO (and that’s a good thing)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Carrie Avery is president of the Durfee Foundation , a family foundation in Los Angeles, California. What would it look like if we mapped this web?

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SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

Tech Soup

eGood is a new Los Angeles based company that has developed a community website and app that helps shoppers locate charitable businesses and restaurants that donate a portion of sales to charities. This is a fairly new informational service that started in 2010. Very interesting indeed.

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Research Friday: Branding in the nonprofit sector

ASU Lodestar Center

In celebration of the name change, New Pathways for Youth hosted a block party for the community where local phoenix public figures spoke in support of the new branding. They have been known as Phoenix Youth at Risk for 24 years, so the name change could have potentially altered the way they are perceived by their community and clients.

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Examples of Abundance in the Arts: Ask A Conductor on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In February 2010 I organised an event called Follow a Museum , this was prompted by the low number of followers which I felt most museums had on Twitter and simply aimed to boost those numbers. The website will also host live video question and answer sessions with curators on a regular basis. What was the objective?

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Social Video Questions, Answered: Join TechSoup July 20

Tech Soup

guests, hosted by TechSoup's Interactive Producer Evonne Heyning. Hardy , Los Angeles, CA @eveslime and the @limelightprjct Sheila Hardy is an award-winning producer, writer and owner of Eve's Lime. 2010 as a way of using film, photography, and real-time reporting. Pacific on July 20. Special Guests: Sheila J.

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How The James Irvine Foundation Received Microsoft Donations Through TechSoup

Tech Soup

Jeff Brandenburg: My role at the Irvine Foundation is Director of Technology for our offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. After looking at online project management tools, we chose Microsoft Project 2010. Here is my interview with Jeff Brandenburg. Jim: What is your job at the foundation?

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Fundraising Trends: Mobile Giving and Crowdfunding, and the Next Generation of Canadian Giving

Connection Cafe

Michael Johnston is the president and founder of the global fundraising consultancy, Hewitt and Johnston Consultants (hjc), which has offices in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, and Cordoba. Since 2010, there has been a 12% increase in donors who have a landline but choose to use their mobile phones.