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Encouraging Philanthropy at a Young Age: Teaching Your Kids To Give To Causes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Looking for an alternative gift to help a child? Save the Children has just launched an inspiring and informative catalog that lets you and your child explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts, vitamins for infants, library books for kids in rural America, or an apple tree in Ethiopia are extraordinary resources.

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Most Popular Leadership Posts So Far This Year

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Most Popular Post In his new book, Fail Fast or Win Big: The Start-up Plan for Starting Now , author Bernhard Schroeder gives you the edge he believes you'll need to be an entrepreneur who can launch a profitable business—in 90 days or less. He also teaches entrepreneurship, innovation, and creativity courses. Do more than care: help.

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Online Collaboration: Taking Education to New Heights

Tech Soup

It was there that she discovered her passion for teaching others: "When I was working with kids with autism or ADHD, something happened within me where I identified with their experiences. … Without GoToMeeting, there would have been no way to teach the kids. Inspiring Optimism Through Results. " Working on a Dream.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

America didn’t seem like such a mess in the foreign media. That said, I often joke to friends that when I retire from online activism/communications I am going to open a print book and stationary store that serves martinis, plays Pandora, and offers free handwriting classes. VIDEO: HTML All Writers Need to Know. Guaranteed.

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Advice for the College Senior Who Wants to Make a Difference

Have Fun - Do Good

For the first time, I didn't feel like a crazy person for wanting to have an alternative vision for my career. If you are a college student, or someone in career transition, who wants to find work that fulfills your big vision for a better world, I have a few words of advice, and some books to recommend. My advice: 1.

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Should Museums Be Happiness Engines?

Museum 2.0

For people who receive poor extrinsic feedback in their lives--students who are told they are dumb, workers in unstimulating jobs, people who feel shy and lonely--games may provide an alternative motivational structure that supports their growth and happiness. But the motivation is still external. And that's very doable.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

I could practically teaching this class. In America, that is definitely not how most of the police officers that I have spoken with would expect somebody to act at a traffic stop. We had surveyed an alternative high school and half the kids had said, “There’s no adult that I can talk to but I need to talk to somebody.”