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JANUARY 27, 2008

Via Roger Carr's blog post at Everyday Giving , Dr. Mani was introduced to the Sharing Foundation and became a donor to the America's Giving Challenge campaign. A group of caring, generous, passionate people who wanted to make a difference, reach out with a helping hand, change the world and make it a better place. He lives in India.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

This year the awards have a category to solicit ideas from young people, age 18-25. This got me curious about the young people blogging about education or doing projects. I taught in the Bronx for two years through Teach For America while working toward my M.A. Why are you passionate about teaching young people?

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

I just spent two amazing days at the Social Innovation Summit 2013 , a cross disciplinary crowd of people who work on social good in the areas of technology, investment, philanthropy, international development, and business. As a premier provider of digital services , they deliver a steady flow of work to people around the world.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

From November 6-8 – 2012 I will be in Florianopolis, Brazil to keynote the Social Good Brazil – The Seminar , which brings together influential minds, social entrepreneurs and innovators, and connecting people from all walks of life to share ideas and actions to make the world a better place using technology, social media and innovative thinking.

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JANUARY 9, 2008

This year I'm gonna celebrate by trying to get 51 people to donate $10 in 51 hours to the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge over at Global Giving. I'm hoping to get atleast 51 people donate $10 to celebrate my birthday by my birthday on January 11th and by the end of the challenge have the most unique donors!

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MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge.

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MARCH 7, 2012

Another colleague, Shonali Burke , shared with me an amazing way to honor women you admire on March 8th as part of Oxfam America’s International Women’s Day (March campaign. Write a post asking people to do one or both of the above. The certificate above. I really liked created a customized certificate.

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DECEMBER 13, 2007

I'll also be asking people to donate (minimum $10), ask their friends and networks to donate, and help me promote this cause. But for this one, I want to use it in a strategic way to energize or as a net to pull in new people. Here's my initial thinking. I need your help. What else should I consider? Anything I've already done wrong?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

It is intended to inspire actions like contributing to charities, educating one’s children about giving, volunteering for a nonprofit, or to encourage people in their networks to do the same. This campaign provides resources, a theme, and asking all who participate to unleash their creativity to spread generosity.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Dan Michel, Digital Marketing Manager, Feeding America Twitter: @dpmichel. Dan is the Digital Marketing Manager for Feeding America where he oversees the execution of their external digital strategy which includes social media. Social Media Measurement is this month’s theme on the Zoetica Salon hosted on my blog Facebook page.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

Facilitated by Lucy Bernholz, the panelists discussed how data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models affect poor and working-class people in America. California Passes New Law That Bans Bots From Pretending to Real People: California Gov. You can watch the YouTube presentation or read the takeaways here.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Luis’s family and other High Andean families have little access to education and training, dramatically limiting their job opportunities despite living in one of the fastest growing adventure tourism destinations in South America. Llamas have “pillow” feet and do not harm the trails, neither does their poop.

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MAY 27, 2015

A big topic of discussion as the field is maturing is how to track on-the-ground outcomes for people and communities, in addition to counting clicks, views, downloads and tweets. Code for America , one of the organizations that we worked with, is already implementing outcome assessments.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

One email to David Cush, the CEO of Virgin America and he graciously agreed to help out. Jennifer and the Stanford student team are dedicated to getting 100,000 people signed up for the national bone marrow donor registry. Porter Gale Porter Gale is former VP of Marketing at Virgin America. Getting the place ticket was easy.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

This year, I'm sitting out the America's Giving Challenge , but this group volunteers, parents of Cambodian adopted children, and board members took the plunge into Facebook. They don't expect to win the grand prize, but have doubled the number of people and dollars in the TSF Facebook Cause ! Tags: america giving challenge.

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JANUARY 17, 2018

Her book is based on traveling the country and visiting and interviewing dozens of social entrepreneurs who started nonprofits such as Teach for America, City Year, DonorsChoose, charity:water, and others. Her book shares useful guidance about so many questions that keep those of us in the social sector up at night.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

.” In Steve Rubel’s Ad Age post, ” The Revolution Won’t Be Televised; It Will Be Instagrammed ” points out some underlying trends that might make some of the hype less hype: Smartphone use has become pervasive, siting recent research reports from Pew Internet for America Life research.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The Best Quick Videos about Lean for Social Good: Code for America, SamaUSA and Girl Develop It. Some of the best Lean learning comes through the real-life stories from people who are already using Lean principles.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

At the age of 13, my grandfather left his country and ended up as a refugee in America. Despite harsh conditions, he made a new life in a new country, but never forgot his homeland. In Ukraine, nearly 2 million people are internally displaced. A branch of my family tree is from the Ukraine.

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MAY 5, 2014

Several community foundations will be part of Give Local America , a campaign that encourages and supports local philanthropy and the 100th anniversary of community foundations in the US and the vital role they play. Getting People Excited About Giving Days by Guest Post by Marika Lynch. Most, like this one , were full of humor.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. In a 2012 study, researchers discovered that nostalgizing helps people relate their past experiences to their present lives in order to make greater meaning of it all. pic.twitter.com/PXdIUl0IIQ. or “Love it!”

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JULY 1, 2010

Enjoying a great view of Manhattan's skyline on the roof of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. (L Many people still don’t know what Foursquare is. If you are one of those people — watch this video. You can use Foursquare to change people’s behavior and inspire positive change. Not sure who someone is?

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

Earlier this week, I flew across the country (thanks Virgin America !) So, I was delighted to get an opportunity to test some new icebreaker at the evening event that was intended to get people to know each other in the room and connect online. I asked folks if they were on Twitter or Facebook, most people raised their hands.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2008

But many other people across America won't have that luxury. According to the Food Research and Action Center , more than 36 million people lived in households in America struggling against hunger in 2007. Hunger isn't just a problem in America.

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MAY 9, 2013

We knew that if our film was compelling, we could break through to the people in the audience — and maybe they would help get the word out about the film and the issues it explored. My latest project is called @home , which explores homelessness in America through the story of Mark Horvath (aka @hardlynormal on Twitter).

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

Fortunately, we had a team of social media volunteers at a central location (our “command center”) at the Mall of America which made it easy to coordinate our response via email, blog, Facebook and Twitter. (That was one of the G-rated tweets.). Our Social Media Command Center. In many cases, harsh criticism and frustration was diffused.

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

My first ladder of engagement was developed for the America’s Giving Challenge contest that I won in 2008 - it was a framework that used the “community manager” or “network weaver” as the human face to connect with people and bring them to the next level of involvement.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

a new company-wide initiative to create opportunities for 300 million young people around the world over the next three years. The initiative brings together an array of existing, new and enhanced global programs and partnerships that connect young people with better education, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities.

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MARCH 17, 2017

We worked with a network of women’s rights NGOs located throughout Latin America and Guatemala who traveled to Antigua for the multi-day training. Even if your group consists of a team of people who work together regularly, it is still a good idea to ease them into the training with a good opener. (2)

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NOVEMBER 24, 2014

We were introducing a new user experience and wanted people to feel comfortable with the new website before jumping into the intensity of Give to the Max Day. They reported that 57 percent of people who downloaded the free pass from our website told them that the free ride made them “more likely to participate” in the giving day.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Note from Beth: Back in 2003 when most people in the nonprofit sector were asking, “What the heck is a blog?,” Here’s the deal: cloud computing means that people are keeping data in similar formats. Heard what people in TechSoup Global were thinking along the way – what they agreed with and what they disagreed with.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

I must admit that the cynic in me thought, “It’s really in YouTube’s interest to keep people on YouTube and not to allow them to leave.” In other words, I wasn’t holding my breath that they would create more ways that nonprofits could get people off of YouTube and on to engagement. Not any more. So, invited to guest post again.

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MARCH 21, 2010

to help promote awareness of homelessness in America. Other panels on social good explored crowdsourcing ideas to change the world, and brought folks together during the CauseLabs to brainstorm offline solutions to ending hunger in America. I am ready to do big things, help people, and make some real strides this year.

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JANUARY 10, 2011

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. Lately, my team has been translating my findings into digital assets so that many more people can benefit from the insights. First up is the use of social media to disseminate research.

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JUNE 26, 2010

There is a nice synergy as ALL the proceeds from my share of the sales of the book will be going to the Sharing Foundation , the organization I championed for the first America’s Giving Challenge. Nonprofit social media strategists who teach us everyday about how to build networks. For me, the party was more a like a family reunion.

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JANUARY 9, 2010

Once they arrived in America, they organized an all-night candlelight vigil in front of the White House to call attention to their father's plight. I've never met them face-to-face, but almost four years to the day, our paths crossed virtually when their father, a human rights activist, was thrown in jail in Cambodia.

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JANUARY 27, 2008

Roger Carr, Everyday Giving Blog , signed up to help me with a Bloggers Campaign part of the Sharing Foundation's Americas Giving Challenge , Today, I observed a twitter exchange from Angela to Roger. This will most certainly help word of our campaign reach many new people. Yes, indeed Laura is helping us out. Thank you Laura!

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