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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Proceeds benefit the Best Friends Animal Society, a nonprofit working to end the killing in America’s animal shelters through adoption, spay and neuter education, and no-kill initiatives. The Field Museum Store offers gifts for those interested in science and cultural, natural, and human history. 21) PETA Shop :: shop.peta.org.

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November Cause Awareness: National Native American Heritage Month

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This important awareness month is dedicated to honoring the contributions of Indigenous American Indians and the history of the country’s first stewards. As part of his goal to create a heritage day for the “First Americans,” he persuaded the Boy Scouts of America to set aside a day for acknowledgment for three years.

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The Great Good Place Book Discussion Part 2: Small Rural Museums as Third Places

Museum 2.0

This is the second installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Every Tuesday in June, this blog will feature a guest post examining some aspect of the book. As I was reading The Great Good Place I identified with Oldenburg’s description of Main Street USA, small town America, and rural life.

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Tales of faux donors scamming charities

Robert Weiner

The donor promised his patent would completely fund the university, wipe out the national debt, and make America the happiest place on Earth. Turns out he was wanted for being a scam artist. Tale #2: I got one last week saying I was, “DAMNED FROM ETERNAL SALVATION FOR NOT ACCEPTING A GIFT THAT WAS A MIRACLE FROM GOD.”

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My Fairy Godmother Status at Dreambank, Sending Coffee Karma Via Akoha, and My BillMeLater Pay It Forward Shopping Spree

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was first introduced to the concept of the gift economy and pay it forward many years ago when I was the community builder for a first generation online network for artists, called ArtsWire. There is a history of virtual gift giving. I sent a coffee gift card to Alex Steed to help ower his Millennials Changing America project.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Gabriela Mistral. Do you love ladies in literature? Rosalind Franklin. Dorothy Arzner.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

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Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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