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34 Clever Summer Fundraising Ideas

Whole Whale

Do a walk-slash-hike for charity: Choose the tallest peak in your town or neighborhood (unless you live in Washington or Oregon, then find something a bit more manageable). Combine local businesses, a boardwalk, info booths, and a nice day for a good cause. Invite your supporters to share their cutest feline photos.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

Qui - for clients that are larger, we set up media citation reports (like a word doc with titles and links and relevant info about the mentions and how they should respond). but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. this time they got 3,000 photos and 2,500 email address. How much time is spent listening?

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Good News! Starbucks Signed an Agreement with Ethiopia

Have Fun - Do Good

They created a Flickr petition where they asked people to post a photo of themselves with a sign that says, "I support Ethiopian coffee farmers." I'm sure there are many other steps they took that I don't know about, but still, it seems like using blogs, video and photo sharing helped. Pretty cool stuff.

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Webinar Shows Social Media with Volunteers in Action

Tech Soup

University of Oregon's campus group AHA was mentioned in #techsoup 's webinar on social media for volunteer managing. for up-to-date contact info, credentials, skills of volunteers, as well as a place to connect. Blogs allow volunteers to further build community and tap their creative talents by posting and sharing photos.

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22 Email Ledes That Always Work!!

M+R

Report back from colleagues Your organization is full of people with inside info — field staff, development officers, policy experts. Photo courtesy of US Forest Service This photo was taken just yesterday. It shows just one small part of the wildfires devastating the Blue Mountains of Oregon.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2014 - The Green Issue

Tech Soup

For more info on this, I like Laura Orsini’s plain language description on ReadWrite. But he still manages to be a consistent source of online enviro info. If you like your Twitter to the point, without a lot of extraneous photos and hashtags, it might appeal to you. Thankfully, the TechSoup site is unaffected.

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Carnet Williams: Nonprofit Technology, Blogging, Aggregating, & Surfing.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My introduction to the nonprofit technology space occurred during my first year of law school in Oregon (1995). BK Note: In the photo, you'll see a surf board, along with the technology tools, including Carnet's new treo. I remember reading your posts in the early days of Rider's list and finally meeting you back in 2001.