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TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge Global Tweet Chat Recap

Tech Soup

San Francisco, United States: TechSoup and San Francisco NetSquared welcomed Jay Golden, co-founder of Waking Star, for "Telling Your Origin Story." Honolulu, United States: Applications for Good rounded out the chat with a look at digital storytelling with communities who are not or less digitally engaged.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a.

ASU Lodestar Center

Public Allies and AmeriCorps have made it possible for me to accomplish my dream and serve the United States of America. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. I’ve given approximately 2,900 hours of work for America since 2009.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Social Media is all.

ASU Lodestar Center

Within an hour (and with a huge helping hand from social media), thousands had mobilized and gathered all over the United States to celebrate, remember, and embrace. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. Clearly, participation is in, and passive observation is out.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How to Start a Nonprofit Organization.

ASU Lodestar Center

The United States has approximately 1,600,000 nonprofit organizations of which about 800,000 are charities. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. "Are there other organizations in the community that do what it is I propose to do? 1] Thats a lot of service!

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Relationships Matter

ASU Lodestar Center

In the Center for Effective Philanthropys research on strong funder-grantee relationships , we looked at a subsample of our grantee data: responses from almost 30,000 grantees representing 175 funders across the United States of all different types, sizes, and focuses.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

ASU Lodestar Center

A 2008 study shows that the nonprofit sector employs approximately 13 million people in the United States. [1] What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. We welcome your comments and feedback.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, is the.

ASU Lodestar Center

So, is the nonprofit sector in the United States becoming more commercialized? What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger. Somehow, saying that something is growing attracts more attention than saying that something is merely important.