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What does a Purpose-Driven Company Look Like?

Saleforce Nonprofit

In 2013, it became one of the first airlines to outfit a portion of its fleet with split scimitar winglets. For example, My Special Aflac Duck is a social robot that helps kids cope with cancer. A student works on a coding challenge at Computer Science Education Week with Salesforce employees in Dublin, Ireland.

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Nonprofit Technology News for February 2014

Tech Soup

The online protest was to raise awareness on NSA mass surveillance practices and also to promote ‘Aaron’s law’, a response to the 2013 suicide death of activist Aaron Swartz who was convicted of hacking data on an academic website and getting a sentence of 35 years in prison. The New Cancer Research UK Smartphone Game.

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Lives are Changed when #bigkidsgive and how you can rock #GivingTuesday Next Year

Connection Cafe

Camp Kesem empowers college students across the United States to create a free, life-changing one-week summer camp experience for children affected by a parent’s cancer. Mai-Lan provided their volunteer student leaders a toolkit with everything they needed for a success. in 2012 to $142.05 Pretty cool, right?

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This includes some of the most basic student essentials. Jeff Bauman , who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013, has the second most successful fundraiser on the site with over $800,000 raised. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2013. T-shirt giant CustomInk backed and launched Booster in 2013.

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How Do You Measure Up? [Benchmarks Webinar]

Care2

Next Thursday, we''re holding a webinar that will dive into the key findings from the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study – to indicate where your organization''s performance stacks up in relation to your peers, as well as what you can be doing better to speed your journey to online success.

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The Nonprofit Weekly Roundup: #GivingTuesday Changing the World One Online Donation at a Time (and how you can benefit all year long)

Connection Cafe

What happens when you mix motivated college students, the #GivingTuesday movement, and #unselfies on social media? For Camp Kesem, $10,000 happens- money that will send children affected by a parent’s cancer to a free, life-changing summer camp.

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Tap Into Millennial Potential by Creating a Stellar Website

NonProfit Hub

In fact, only 15 percent of millennials didn’t give to an NPO in 2013. Do you have the type of nonprofit brand that a college student wants to support by slapping a sticker on their computer? Plain and simple—they’re a foundation that raises money for childhood cancer research, “because research saves lives.” charity: water.