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How the Latino Community Foundation Used Learning and Pivoting to Get Better Fundraising Results

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Why did you decide to do a crowd-funding campaign in 2012? In 2012, President Obama responded to the activism, passion, and residency of the Dreamers, by issuing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to protect them from deportation and provided them with temporary work visas. What were your results? Your strategies?

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Good Food Revolution: Will Allen of Growing Power

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- her signature leadership program to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity in America. He was named the 2012 NCAA Theodore Roosevelt Award recipient. In May 2010, TIME magazine named Will to the TIME 100 World's Most Influential People.

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Seven Ways to Make Sure Your Blog Gets Noticed

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As of April 23, 2012, MomsRising published 35 blog posts as part of the food blog carnival that were initially promoted on our own network and then pushed out, using various community #hashtags on Twitter and by our policy partners and other allies. million readers, hundreds of thousands of others have viewed the stories as well.

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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

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The Little Golden books from my childhood, non-fiction books that revolutionized my perspective of the world and novels that I rarely take the luxury of reading. Now, fast forward to 2012. I have a blog , a website , a twitter account , a facebook page, a reddit account and we recently launched a Kickstarter campaign.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

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Co-Disruptor: Twitter. As CEO Brad Damphousse explained to TechCrunch in 2012, the company’s growth was “due to the maturation of payment processing — allowing individual users to accept credit card payments — as well as social platforms like Facebook, which tie campaigns to identity and link them to people users know.”.