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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Challenge open to all Americans, running from October 13, 2016 at 12:01 AM PDT and ends on October 26, 2016 at 11:59 PM PDT. The Surgeon General in partnership with Fitbit has issued the Step It Up! The idea is to encourage people to walk more to improve health and raise awareness about making cities more walkable.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Credit: Awesome artwork by Faith Goble used from Flickr on a Creative Commons license. When we started Zoetica, as its founders – Beth Kanter , Geoff Livingston , and Kami Huyse – we wanted it to be a different kind of company. Less of an agency and more of a change agent.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Mark Horvath, known as " HardlyNormal " on Twitter and who is a tireless advocate for the cause of homelessness, was the winner of the SXSW Pepsi Refresh Challenge. The SXSW Pepsi Fresh Challenge matched three different causes with three social media rock stars. Mark uses social media to tell the story of homeless people in America.

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JUNE 22, 2009

Of note, I wanted to let you know that the reflection paper about America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation has been published ( Allison Fine and I were the co-authors.) When the Case Foundation team launched their Giving Challenge. The Challenge raised $1.8 I attended Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp on Saturday.

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AUGUST 7, 2008

I've been working with the wonderful Knight News Challenge team-- Kristen Taylor , Jose Zamora , Heidi Miller , Robertson Adams , Marc Fest and others (under the apt leadership of the innovative Gary Kebbel ) to help improve the range, quality and diversity of this year's applicants for the 2008-09 News Challenge (which will give away roughly $5MM (..)

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MAY 6, 2009

The Change the Web Challenge such a huge success! It launched a challenge to bloggers to "Blog For A Cause" throughout May in aid of global charities. Congratulations to the winners and all who submitted an app! Read more here. But what's really cool, one of the winners, Zemanta, had decided to pay its award forward.

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JANUARY 9, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign as part of the Sharing Foundation's America Giving Challenge. I turned to one of my favorite nonprofit marketing bloggers and colleagues, Marc Sirkin , for some advice and help with the America's Giving Challenge for the Sharing Foundation. Sharing Foundation Khmer Literacy Program. Everyday Giving Blog.

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DECEMBER 27, 2007

The America's Giving Challenge will award $50,000 to the project that gets the most unique donors. If we are four of the top causes to get the most unique donors, we'll win $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation as part of America's Giving Challenge.

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MAY 13, 2008

This got me thinking about the adoption challenges faced by nonprofits in embracing these new tools. I'm looking for the best of the best blog posts or articles about social media adoption challenges and successes. Many nonprofits are just beginning to use them as part of the Internet advocacy and organizing strategies.

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MAY 10, 2009

Today's New York Times article by Stephanie Strom describes some of the most recent online contests, including the Case Foundation ’s Giving Challenge, a contest conducted through Causes. The design of the Giving Challenge was such that any organization, even small grassroots organizations, could enter and even win. (I

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FEBRUARY 1, 2008

I was so busy online working my social media and social networks that I failed to notice the article from the New York Times about the America's Giving Challenge titled "Charities Vie for Prizes in Online Giving Experiment."

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FEBRUARY 21, 2008

The final, official results have arrived for America's Giving Challenge and I'm happy say that we came in first place for global causes ! My America's Giving Challenge Dairy. Day 1: We're Entering the America's Giving Challenge. My 51st Birthday Challenge. Special thanks to Michele Martin! Sina's Story.

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APRIL 29, 2008

Submit your ideas to the DonateNow Mashup Challenge sponsored by the Case Foundation by May 19. How would you mashup the Network for Good donation processing service with other services to make it easier for nonprofits to raise money online?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Last week I was lucky enough to attend the Google Impact AI Summit that shared the learning and case studies from Google AI Challenge winners. The Summit included presentations, panel discussions, and a “science fair” where we could see demos from and talk with the winners. Nancy comments are always right on. ” .

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

A recent study from two researchers affiliated with the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has challenged the public perception about AI’s negative impact on society due to the “robots taking over jobs.” everything is a computational challenge. Link Between Artificial Intelligence and Wellbeing .

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The Road Ahead As the nonprofit sector navigates evolving challenges, it’s crucial for us, as leaders, to embrace empathetic leadership as a guiding principle. Recently, we have been exploring a fascinating topic that is not only close to our hearts, but very timely due to burnout in the nonprofit sector – empathetic leadership.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Not too long ago, I submitted my chapter to BJ Fogg's Psychology of Facebook Applications. The chapter is an analysis of Facebook applications that help raise money or awareness or encourage people to take a social action.

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DECEMBER 29, 2007

Roger Carr has said it much better than I can in his post directing his blog readers to the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge fundraiser set up by Michele Martin. Thank you Michele and Roger! I'd also like to point over to Bob Uva's blog post about the supporting the Sharing Foundation. I met Bob through Facebook.

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APRIL 8, 2020

Peer Assist: There are many ways to structure a peer assist where participants listen to each other’s challenges and provide advice. The client gets a few minutes to share their challenge while the consultants simply listen. For the final round, the client gets to share what is most valuable. What is a challenge?

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FEBRUARY 13, 2008

As Jeremiah Owyang who summarized the challenges mentioned in a comment , "Please note, that each of these challenges can and will be overcome, plans and strategies just need to be laid out." As in so many things, the challenge is how to manage expectations and measure results. But don't just jump off the cliff.

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JUNE 14, 2017

Part Two covers the mechanics finding, writing, and sharing compelling stories, as well as addressing some very common storytelling challenges. Part Three provides tips on the digital tools you need to use to share your stories with supporters.

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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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AUGUST 13, 2008

Earlier this week, the WeAreMedia project we had an amazing phone call with some of the really smart people who are contributing the wiki (Michelle Murrain, Jocelyn Harmon, John Kenyon, Ben Sheldon, Ruby Sinreich, Amy Sample Ward, Sheetal Singh, and Katya Andersen).

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NOVEMBER 16, 2007

That's because when I started at the HSUS, I was obsessed with MySpace on a personal level, and I was challenge with the task of figuring out how the org could use it for their benefit of advocacy and fundraising. More so than the average Facebooker, and more so than anyone in my organization. I had no idea what I was getting into.

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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. Mani, I am grateful for your support of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. He also retwittered to his network. He lives in India.

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DECEMBER 13, 2007

Here's my initial thinking. I need your help. What else should I consider? I'll be blogging about all my lessons learned over the next 50 days, so you'll benefit too. I'll also be asking people to donate (minimum $10), ask their friends and networks to donate, and help me promote this cause.

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JULY 11, 2017

That’s why I was inspired to read this recently published report “ Today’s Challenges: Training and Capacity Building ,” written by Sara El-Amine for the Mobilisation Lab in partnership with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. (I I was interviewed for the report).

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AUGUST 23, 2017

The agency has also partnered with a local organization, Local Matters , with a mission of healthy communities through food education to host a cooking demo and challenge. Challenge Events – The agency also does step challenges using trackers and gives out gift cards to winners.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

In a positive sense these social entrepreneurs, startups and large companies are bringing much needed expertise, resources and reach to critical social challenges.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

There are, of course, real challenges and risks of using AI for fundraising. Philanthropists will be able to find causes that match their passions and interests much more easily, receive communications specific to their particular interests and have a more personalized engagement with the cause.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

Today is Blog Action Day where over 11,000 bloggers/sites around the world will publish, donate, or promote the issue of poverty.    The event will certainly spread awareness of the issue. Global issues like poverty are extremely complex and seem huge. There is no simple, clear answers. 

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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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JULY 9, 2018

We’ll cover different examples, discuss how nonprofits can be prepared, and cover the challenges and cautions as we enter a new age of technological disruption by robots! Allison Fine and I have been researching and writing about the age of automation and nonprofits. ” (That is usually second after money.)

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JUNE 11, 2014

Last week, during a convening at the Gates Foundation, they made up buddy up with another participant and go for a 20 minute walk to discuss one of the challenges identified by group. I was the closing speaker of the day, always challenge when you are the person keeping people seated and the next session is the wine and cheese reception.

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DECEMBER 15, 2007

Sina and her two sisters. Sina , age 16, is an orphan and head of her family, and takes care of two younger sisters.

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AUGUST 20, 2014

How many of you who work for nonprofits are getting asked to “ come up with an icebucket challenge ” for your annual fundraising campaign? ” Participating in a local or national giving day may help you work on that second question.

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APRIL 13, 2017

In Hartford, I had challenge of a large number of participants, a “master class” type set up, and but a room and time constraints that limited the amount of full group interactive exercises. For this workshop, I wanted to people share a big or small win with networks or social media with a peer and their challenges.

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