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Why I gave $20.09

Amy Sample Ward

years, I have been working extremely hard to build an organization from scratch that makes it really easy for people to find and share opportunities to make a difference. I started 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa with the simple goal of working fulltime on Social Actions by July 1st. fundraising campaign started: For the last 2.5

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11 Donate Now Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

widgets and apps have yet to raise large amounts in online dollars for most nonprofits, but that doesn’t mean that social media is not resulting in large amounts of dollars raised online. International Development Exchange touts that a $100 donation initiates a rural women’s organic farming collective inSouth Africa.

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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Read our blog about it, check out our literacy micro-site , and tweet with the cool widget we made. Many people, organizations, and churches, had responded, and my parents had the role of boxing and bagging many of these entirely random items. They did not want to bring religious materials to Africa. They had left them behind.

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Which Crowdfunding Platform Is Best for Your Organization?

Tech Soup

Indiegogo also measures how much social engagement is happening with your campaign, meaning how many people are looking at it and sharing it on various networks. Nonprofit Success Story : One Girl, an Australian-based nonprofit, held a fundraiser for providing education opportunities for girls in rural Africa.

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Ways To Use Twitter Lists for Your Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Twitter lists are very easy to create - so you can expect to see many people making Twitter lists and maybe even some large directories of Twitter lists. For example, I was looking for a list of Twitter users from Africa - and after some conversation with Kabissa on Twitter, I found their lists.

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Guest Post by JD Lasica -- Socialbrite: A new sharing & learning hub

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While young people and early adopters increasingly turn to the social Web not only to socialize but to communicate, explore new ideas and share new experiences, nonprofits and social change organizations are still generally stuck in the top-down, one-way world of Web 1.0. You’ll find: A directory of Web 2.0

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

NTEN

Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. Their Envisioning Development project helps people understand “What is Affordable Housing” in New York City. You can make a big impression of site visitors just by presenting them clearly, and in context with your web content.

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