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Uncorking the Success to Fundraising with Wine

Greater Giving

Engaging Your Wine Community Where to find wine for your fundraising event? There are two sectors of the wine community that would be helpful to tap into – the makers and the lovers! Learn their craft and teach them about your mission. Let’s start with the makers. Timing is everything! What’s in it for them?

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The Power of Sport in Changing the World

Saleforce Nonprofit

It wasn’t long after their civil war, and the program was working with child combatants, using sports to teach new skills. In 2005, a visit to Right to Play in Sierra Leone with skateboarding icon Tony Hawk changed my life. The kids had no idea who Tony or I were, but I took a rugby ball, Tony took a skateboard, and it made them smile.

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TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile: Nonprofits Back to School — In Brazil

Tech Soup

nonprofits like Teach for America take on the hard work of rebuilding and reinventing education in places where schools have failed or where dropout rates among low-income children are very high. She grew up in Central America, studied in France, and is a graduate of San Francisco State University. Even in the U.S., spanhidden.

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What's NetSquared Up to in May?

Tech Soup

How big is the NetSquared Local community? They collaborated with the TechSoup Global team to bring events into their communities. Ten Net2 groups held Digital Storytelling events in their community, with an estimated 360 attendees. Highlights from the NetSquared Community Blog. Number of events held: 38.

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TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile: Nonprofits Back to School — In Brazil

Tech Soup

nonprofits like Teach for America take on the hard work of rebuilding and reinventing education in places where schools have failed or where dropout rates among low-income children are very high. She grew up in Central America, studied in France, and is a graduate of San Francisco State University. Even in the U.S.,

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Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists

Museum 2.0

I met many new people and learned a lot about technology and community, but the learning wasn''t the point, enjoying the resolutions was. And we generated over 18,000 mood data points for our researcher, Frances Ulman, Ph.D. We retained 96% of our participants throughout the month. They were 81% compliant with texting back their mood.

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A Little Bit of Gloom Between Two Slices of Hope: Diet for a Hot Planet Author, Anna Lappe

Have Fun - Do Good

After reading each of her books: Hope's Edge (that she co-authored with her mother, Frances Moore Lappé), Grub (that she co-authored with Bryant Terry), and now her new book, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It , I've felt hopeful and energized. Not Anna Lappé's books.