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United Nations Sets a New Agenda for Global Philanthropy

Tech Soup

That may be why technology (for example, rapid mobile phone adoption worldwide) may be so important for realizing the new goals. What works in Mali may not work in Myanmar. Governments, foundations, and charities learned a good deal from working to implement the previous UN goals. I'll say more about that below.

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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rather than go on, instead, I want to give some examples and highlight the cool factor of how mobile can add some out-of-the-box type thinking to an overall health and/or social marketing-related initiative. The first example was using mobile to raise awareness and increase a call to action. What do we do with this one word?

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Crafting Sticky, Emotional Stories That Reach Your Audience (Part 2)

Tech Soup

For example, check out this amazing video that tells the story of a volunteer at The Salvation Army by documentary filmmaker Vladimir Pcholkin. Myanmar Fisherman Goes Home After 22 Years as a Slave by Margie Mason. And catching people's attention has a lot to do with drawing them in with emotion.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

NTEN

We are already seeing this "constructive disruption" of traditional nonprofit business, delivery, information, and networking models already under way, as the upcoming examples illustrate. New Business Models -- Innovative new ways of doing business for social change are emerging by those nonprofits embracing the cloud.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

NTEN

We are already seeing this "constructive disruption" of traditional nonprofit business, delivery, information, and networking models already under way, as the upcoming examples illustrate. New Business Models -- Innovative new ways of doing business for social change are emerging by those nonprofits embracing the cloud.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

For example, when women have this kind of specific skill-set training, they are more likely to have less children, to keep the children they do have in school, to be able to provide access to medical care, and things like that. We are also in discussions in Peru, in Burkina Faso, and in Botswana as well.