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NetSquared Local: Week of June 10, 2013

Tech Soup

Burlington, VT’s Amanda Levinson joined the National Day of Civic Hacking last weekend. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. New Orleans, LA: MiniBar 2013. Mark Morton of Manchester’s Charity Analytics #Net2 group took his members on a journey deep into Facebook EdgeRank. Coolest Thing of the Week.

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Crowdsource This… and That: Getting Creative with Crowdsourcing Strategy (Internet Advocacy Roundtable, April 2013)

Care2

From micro-fundraising on Kickstarter.com to mapping craters on the Moon , people are coming up with creative ways to harness large groups of online volunteers. Large, probability samples of citizens can accurately tell us a lot about the opinions of the nation at large. Crowdsourcing is all the rage.

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Nonprofit Blog Writing 101: Best Practices, Tips & Tricks

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Use your About page as a jumping-off point and go more in depth, using engaging historical photos, maps, and documents as much as you can. Most nonprofits have volunteers with interesting experiences to share and they are typically happy to share their stories. Another great topic is the history of your organization.

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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

During the school year, federal programs like the National School Lunch Program help close this nutrition gap by providing free or reduced cost meals to low-income students. Unfortunately, only one in six youth who are eligible for the National School Lunch Program take advantage of the Summer Food Service Program. That's 3.9

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Nonprofits and transparency: Who’s walking the walk?

NTEN

Recently we announced the launch of our 2013 Communities of Impact program. This Markets for Good article about the Children’s Museum of Manhattan describes how CMOM has collaborated with National Institutes of Health, providing real-time data to develop a health curriculum for young children through an unusually speedy process.

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Town Hall Report Back: January 2014

NTEN

We are waiting to get additional reports on access points and a heat map from previous events to do as much as we can to ensure uptime. This collection includes case studies, reflections, and successful practices from 18 community members who spent 2013 invested in data projects at their nonprofits. Download the report today !

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Reflections from Social Good Brasil and a New Word: PhilanthroTeen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The presentation is in the form of a network map – so you can tell that they already approach their social change work with a network lens. I was so happy to hear the story of how the event got started and the beginning of the network from Fernanda Bornhausen Sa. Teens As Free Agents.