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Facebook Campaigning in Romania

Amy Sample Ward

Earlier this summer, I had the huge privilege to visit Romania and help with the Local Philanthropy Workshop. It was so much fun and it was an amazing experience to work with people like Chris Worman and meet with so many local nonprofit and community changemakers. The slides are below as well as some notes.

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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

Tech Soup

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. He said that roughly half of the people who participate in these challenges are programmers.

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7 Ways to Support Ukraine Now

Saleforce Nonprofit

All donations to WCK leverage local restaurants to provide warm meals to Ukrainian refugees in Poland, Romania, and the surrounding areas, as well as to five Ukrainian cities for those staying in the country where food access is scarce.

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Restart Romania Social Justice Challenge Spotlights User-Generated Content

Tech Soup

To get diverse perspectives from TechSoup Global staff about user-generated content, we asked Marc Manashil, Community Evangelist for NetSquared, to share how challenges like Restart Romania enable users to get engaged at all levels. Restart Romania: A Spectrum of Engagement. By all accounts, Restart Romania was a huge success.

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So, You’re Thinking About Blogging? How To: Create a Blog for your Organization

Amy Sample Ward

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. It was a lot of fun, and as much as I was asked to share some of my knowledge and ideas, I learned a great deal from the local participants. Test Drive It.

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Update: Philanthropy’s response to Ukraine crisis

Candid

Refugees & Displaced People. People of Color. These countries are, in the main, ones that share a border with Ukraine: Poland, Romania, Hungary, Moldova, and Slovakia. Candid collects data from publicly available sources, including press releases, websites, membership reports and surveys, and local reporting.

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Great reads from around the web on October 25th

Amy Sample Ward

." Facebook app causes raises $16m – "Causes, the popular Facebook charity application, has raised another $9 million in funding and introduced gift cards to let people donate online without using a credit card.

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