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HOW TO: Use Twitter Lists to Promote Nonprofits and Causes You Care About

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Twitter’s new Lists are a great way to organize your followers, and with a little intention and a dose of good will, Twitter Lists can also be used to promote your favorite nonprofits and the causes you care about. Example Tweets: Good use of Twitter Lists by @ NationalNOW to organize NOW chapters @ NationalNOW/nowchapters !

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6 Ways to Take Action in the Next Week to Celebrate Earth Day

EveryAction

We're nearing the end of National Park Week, but despite their significance to our country, national parks still require conservation efforts to fund and maintain them. Tell us about the actions you're taking (big or small) on Twitter at @EveryActionHQ ! Take a hike. Can't make a march? What are you doing to mark Earth Day?

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Great reads from around the web on December 8th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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11 Blog Content Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. As of last month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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A Brief History of Nonprofit Organizations (And What We Can Learn)

NonProfit Hub

This took the organization from a private franchise focused on local chapters to one the entire nation—and big donors—could get behind. They started to conserve resources, send supplies to troops overseas and develop both civilian and refugee relief programs. Their effort became known as the “YMCA School” of fundraising.

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Nonprofits & Gaming: Playing Your Way to More Funds, More Volunteers, and Solving the World's Problems

NTEN

World Wildlife Fund offers a fun quiz that helps determine your "inner animal," After the quiz, you learn more about the animal that best matches you – and some of them are truly bizarre, with over 100 species available – and post about it on Facebook and Twitter. Save the Bay: Battle for the Bay. Purpose: Fundraising, education, advocacy.

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11 Blog Content Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. As of last month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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