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Greater Washington Give to the Max Day Training Event

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. They used Twitter to draw attention to a free concert happening on the Washington, Mall which resulted in 60,000 people attending. and one of the most highly anticipated cultural events in the nation.

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

Tech Soup

For nonprofits working on fundraising - Comic Relief in the United Kingdom raised over £7m from text message donations in 2011. opportunities, improve social empowerment, reduce the need to undertake. job bringing to our attention some of ways in which mobiles are being. They can also use it to. You can read more about.

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

NTEN

The empowerment of girls in third world countries is a topic many corporate sponsors are looking to endorse. Games for Change Festival 2011: Demo Spotlight from Games for Change on Vimeo. The inclusion of tough, thoughtful challenges would better promote the ideas the game is looking to express. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. It shows that attention is the sharpest during the first 10 minutes of the lectures, then plummets, and then gradually goes back up but not to the same level. That means talking non-stop for more than 10 minutes, people start to tune out.

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Break the Bias: Changing the Game for Girls & Women

Saleforce Nonprofit

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety. She has been working with Women Win in various capacities since 2011 on a range of projects and programs both in the U.S.