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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

Regardless of what work you are doing – campaigning for political change, providing services to your local community, educating others, or anything else – would it look different, would it feel different, would it operate differently if love was the central message? I see it in so many places, and it’s working.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

What are ways of translating early warning dashboards captured at the global level into local action? Emphasis was placed on making information actionable, accessible, and bite-sized to fit into the lifestyle of a small-scale farmer. Senior Humanitarian Climate Crisis Advisor, Save the Children International. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. Our Local Impact Map. How One NGO Serves 70,000 Children. In the past year, Childreach International has impacted the lives of over 70,000 children.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level.

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A Review of the Guardian ACTIVATE Summit in London

Tech Soup

This time on June 22 at King’s Place in London, ACTIVATE’s. should enable power in members and facilitate a global impact of highly local activity.” Guardian’s ACTIVATE is an annual conference that aims to bring together leaders in media, government and technology to a ctivatedly. On the core.

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Kids and Kickstarter: The Rise of PhilanthroKids and Kid Crowdfunding!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s a few recent examples that I’ve spotted recently in my Facebook newsfeed, comments on my blog, and other online places. The story is about how Diane has run into trouble with the local planning board is described here on her GoFundMe page and has incurred legal fees. A Crowdfunding Campaign To Save A Horse Farm.

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Tools to End Poverty: An Interview with Martin Fisher of KickStart

Have Fun - Do Good

KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. On that dollar, he not only had to find a place for himself to stay in the slum, but also try to send home whatever was remaining at the end of the day. He was making about $1 a day at this job.