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Games for Change 2011: Channeling Our Collective Power

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Newell said that they’ll be building curricula around Portal 2 by developing custom tools that allow students to create content to match educational programs. ” Science gets a swift kick of fun when you can learn about it by being propelled through the air in a game. Players raised over $1.5 million in just five days.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

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The wide variety of choices and tools to integrate make this field exciting and challenging terrain for nonprofit leaders; we will take your questions in this one hour live interactive event. Only having launched in March 2011, they just broke $25,000 in funds raised in ventures on their site, with donations ranging from $3 to $2,000.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

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Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons. Another great example of what Voluntweeters can do is the case of Red Cross voluntweeters responding to the more recent February 2011 Chicago blizzard. For others it was not so clear.