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29-Day Giving Challenge: An Interview with Cami Walker

Have Fun - Do Good

Below is an edited transcript of an interview from October 11, 2008 with Cami Walker, the founder of the 29-Day Giving Challenge, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast. In the interview, Cami mentions that she is writing a book about the 29 Day Giving Challenge. There's actually a homeless couple who is taking part.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

Instead of saying in the middle of the campaign “we need $X”, they share an interview with one of the beneficiaries, or invite people to connect directly via twitter with children in Tanzania who attend the school funded through the campaign. The more is raised, the more impact they can make. There’s no limit to either.

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared.

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The Ultimate Guide to Volunteer Recruitment: 15+ Strategies

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There are a number of media outlets you can use to publicize your program, including: TV or radio stations Newspapers Magazines Local bloggers or social media influencers. Frame your need for volunteers as a story that reporters or bloggers can tell and share with their audiences. Newspapers, magazines, and blogs focus on storytelling.

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A Few Reflections from SXSW Crowdsourcing Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These were (as captured by blogger Marcia Stephanek ): Open Green Map , offered up by Holly Ross, helps communities map their eco-friendly spots, whether it's a bike rack or a solar-heated apartment complex or a public herb garden. Invisible People , an nonprofit that uses video storytelling to help de-stigmatize homeless people.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

After witnessing the Stonewall Riots first-hand as a teenager, Rivera's revolutionary spirit was ignited and she worked for the rest of her life, continuing her activism and forming a group that worked with homeless drag queens and transgender women of color in New York City. Charlotte Cooper. Future Sheroes. Jazz Jennings. Tavi Gevinson.

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Strategies to Tell if Your Nonprofit Content Marketing is Hurting or Helping

Bloomerang

Interviews with Experts (e.g., When I worked at the San Francisco Food Bank, we noticed our audience followed food and Mommy bloggers, so we reached out to these folks for endorsements. Conduct an interview with a trusted expert. Recommendations (e.g., “Top Top Movies about Justice”). Recipes (e.g., White Papers (e.g.,

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