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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

Before exploring the questions around limitations and needs, I want to share a couple examples of things happening right now to remind us that even though it will take a lot of work, and honestly a good bit of time, that we are already moving. Have people heard of 350.org org before? Have you heard the number 350 parts per million?

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The Ultimate Guide to Volunteer Recruitment: 15+ Strategies

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As you implement the strategies given in this guide, you’ll be able to find and recruit people who want to dedicate their time and talent to helping your organization. When someone is willing to donate an hour of their time, a nonprofit is able to save money while getting the assistance they need to move their work forward.

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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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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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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

American Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis is considered the first woman of Native American and African descent to achieve international fame as a sculptor at a time when artists of color were hardly celebrated and slavery was still legal. Her thoughts, while controversial at the time, blazed the trail for future feminist thinkers. Roxane Gay.

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

Bloomerang

Be sure to first spend time figuring out who your target audiences are. CONSIDER: When’s the last time you conducted audience surveys for your target constituencies (e.g. website pages visited, time spent on the page, emails opened, click-throughs, articles, blog or social media posts shared, replies, comments)? Recipes (e.g.,

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