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Giving Trends in Brazil: How Crowdfunding & Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Nonprofit Sector

Nonprofit Tech for Good

An Interview with Ruy Fortini , Founder and CEO of Doare and official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. 1) The Global Trends in Giving Report is meant to help the nonprofit sector better understand individual giving worldwide, but data and statistics don’t communicate well what is happening on the ground in Brazil.

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3rd Annual EveryAction Nonprofit Halloween Costume Parade

EveryAction

For over a century, Audubon has worked to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity. Tweet us your favorite nonprofit costumes at @EveryActionHQ - you could win some ghoulishly great gear! Born This Way Foundation. Greenpeace.

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Martín Burt’s Best Kept Secret

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It turns out Martín was asked by Franco to join his administration when he took office in June 2012. In 1985, he started Fundación Paraguaya in order to develop social innovations that could help create jobs and increase family income among the country’s poor. and Africa.

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2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference Pre-Party

Tech Soup

NTEN, with help from TechSoup and the San Francisco 501 TechClub , held a 12NTC pre-party at TechSoup Global headquarters. The Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) recently gave San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit techies a glimpse of what’s in store for this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference (12NTC).

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Three Ways Social Media Has Negatively Affected the Nonprofit Sector (and What We Can Do About It)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

From famine in Africa to war in the Middle East to global economic collapse, people are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by all the tweets, status updates, photos, and videos of gloom, doom, and despair. All day, everyday the online masses are being bombarded with terrible news. People need to hear more good news. They need to feel hope.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GEO’s 2012 National Conference shared a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and presents opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. In many ways, however, the KONY2012 episode is an old story about the power of social capital and strong narratives.

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A Brief History of Nonprofit Organizations (And What We Can Learn)

NonProfit Hub

Though the idea of helping and giving back to others has existed since Biblical times, nonprofit organizations in the United States have a much shorter history. With World War II happening across the pond, and the looming fear that it would come to the states, Americans took it upon themselves to help out with the effort from home.

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