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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Your animal adoption helps save endangered species! Gifts of Hope help children and families around the world receive training and animal gifts that help them become self-reliant. Kiva Cards. Kiva Cards let your recipient choose an entrepreneur to support. Heifer International :: Gifts of Hope. Mercy Corps Gifts.

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The Power of Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It’s either “crowdsourcing is the answer to everything” –or it’s a complaint that social networks like Facebook and Twitter are just “too full of chatter.”. Donors Choose ([link] for example, allows people to pool small donations to help enterprising teachers get funding for classroom projects. The Value of Specificity.

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Guest Post by Julio Vasconcellos: Lessons Learned from Twitter Campaigns on Twitcause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My friend Jessica Jackley Kiva. told me early on that one of the reasons Kiva works is that you see the exact goat herder you’re helping with your loan (not to mention read his story and look at his pictures). Causes on Facebook has raised a lot of money in aggregate, but a pittance on a per-user basis.

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Socialbrite: Social Tools for Social Change

Amy Sample Ward

Nonprofit tech experts team up to help others master ‘social tools for social change’. We’re here to help nonprofits master the social Web to bring about meaningful social change,” said J.D. Productivity Tools in dozens of categories that can help organizations get a handle on the social Web.

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Cool App Roundup: Fundraising Edition

Tech Soup

These mobile tools help you fundraise on-the-go. Razoo (iOS) helps you keep track of each donation, track your fundraising progress and thank people when they donate. Charity Fundraising Agent (Android, iPhone) helps you keep track of your fundraising campaigns by monitoring both online and offline donations.

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#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook. For example, Mark Horvath has put together a cookbook , filled with recipes from social media leaders, that is being sold on iTunes and is generating funding to help provide programs to homeless.

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Social Media for Nonprofits SF Conference Recap

Tech Soup

These events are fiscally sponsored by NTEN and Microsoft and TechSoup is a partner in helping support the event. He doesn’t feel that Facebook is the best platform for his social media objectives and believes one shouldn’t be on Facebook just because it’s the world’s largest social network.