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Are you celebrating Giving Tuesday? These NTEN Members are!

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Academy of Hope Adaptive Sports Partners of the North Country American Brain Tumor Association American Cancer Society American Childhood Cancer Organization American Heart Association American Jewish World Service American Liver Foundation American Lung Association American Red Cross AmeriCares Animal Humane Society Apple Tree Arts Arcus Foundation (..)

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Good Magazine Wants You To Do Good!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Ashoka 's mission is to shape a citizen sector that is entrepreneurial, productive and globally integrated. If you do the math, that's $1 million donated to these organizations.

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The Craig Newmark Beneblog Interview

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Also working with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America to help get them the respect and services they deserve, working on reform of the VA. Q: What’s your advice to them on going local vs. national vs. global? A: Think globally, act locally is the cliche, but there's a lot to it.

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Because in a global society all our human rights need to be fought for and protected. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Because they are always the first to arrive on the scene after a natural disaster. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn || Flickr. Amnesty International. It Gets Better Project.

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Because in a global society all our human rights need to be fought for and protected. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Because they are always the first to arrive on the scene after a natural disaster. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn || Flickr. Amnesty International. It Gets Better Project.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work.

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is using the web to bring back together their band of brothers and sisters. One, the key issue facing activists who wish for real social change is the mismatch between the scale of our problems (global) and the natural scale of our sociality (local). The examples are there, too.

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