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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Many lessons to be learned from the ice-bucket challenge, Rice University expert says - Your Houston News: Living Former presidents, pop stars, politicians,actors and athletes are among the numerous public figures who have completed the viral ALS Ice-Bucket Challenge.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Dell, University of Texas empowering entrepreneurs — blog | Austin Business Journal: "For the fifth consecutive year, Dell and UT’s RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service are teaming on the 2011 Dell Social Innovation Competition, with more than $100,000 to be awarded to turn innovative social concepts into new businesses or nonprofits.

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MARCH 14, 2012

Communities: Real and Imagined by Quintus Jett of Rutgers University | Community Techknowledge : I've seen many nonprofit organizations struggle with how to harness the growing capabilities of social media to build community and resources.

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

ammado Introduces Universal Giving Widget - Resource Center - AFP: "ammado Introduces Universal Giving Widget(Dec. 8, 2009) In the season of giving, AFP's networking partner ammado has introduced a new giving widget designed to make online donation a part of everyday life for millions of people around the world".

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JULY 24, 2009

From Mashable10 Ways Universities Are Engaging Alumni Using Social Media: "In the current economy, job security has become somewhat of an oxymoron. Which is one reason why maintaining connections with your old university classmates, especially when you find yourself looking for a new job, can be crucial.

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JUNE 12, 2008

Wired Campus: University Used Instant Messages to Communicate After Fire - Chronicle.com: "University Used Instant Messages to Communicate After FireIn the wake of a devastating fire at Our Lady of the Lake University last month, university officials didn’t rely on phone calls or e-mail to keep the university community connected.

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APRIL 29, 2008

Evans School hosts Microsoft forum about corporate giving - The Daily of the University of Washington: "Last night, the Evans School of Public Affairs hosted a forum on corporate social responsibility as part of an ongoing course offered at the Evans School that features lectures from various leaders of business and industry.The lecture featured two (..)

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APRIL 17, 2007

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MAY 28, 2013

After learning about online courses offered by colleges such as Stanford and Harvard he wanted to include the philanthropy courses already provided at universities by the foundation in the online-learning movement. This online course opens these classes up to an unlimited number of students.'

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JANUARY 16, 2014

Duane Jasper, president and CEO of RuffaloCODY, said ScaleFunder’s emerging crowdfunding technology, developed at the University of California, Los Angeles, will complement his company’s fundraising tools for colleges and universities.'

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APRIL 4, 2014

The University of Rochester announced that the Wegman Family Charitable Foundation made two large donations totaling $17 million, including $10 million to benefit its Institute for Data Science and the remainder for its children’s hospital. The university is in the middle of a $1.2

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

Peter Wylie and I are each just back home, having presented at the fall conference of the Illinois chapter of the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement (APRA-IL), hosted at Loyola University Chicago. See photos, below!) We also drew names to give away a few copies of our book, Score!

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JANUARY 7, 2013

Plus-One This: Proof That Google Plus Will Prevail | Fast Company : Plus-One This: Proof That Google Plus Will Prevail By Dave Llorens | January 7, 2013 Google Plus has been written off as a universal flop--but a deeper look proves that we will all eventually succumb to its siren song.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education : But the University of Wisconsin at Madison may be the first college to get a donation for increasing its follower count. After four days, the university has raised almost $8,000 dollars with the project, called the Bucky Challenge.

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MAY 27, 2014

So a new research paper from Michigan State University is particularly welcome. With news feeds giving us constant updates from many sources—some reliable, some not—it’d be very easy to conflate fact with conjecture.

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MAY 8, 2015

earthquake rocked Nepal on April 25, killing more than 7,000 people and injuring at least 14,000 more, Howat and one of his colleagues, a researcher at the University of Minnesota, realized that the technology they use could help relief efforts." 'via via Blog this'

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FEBRUARY 22, 2016

College students contribute to growing business Nonprofit Hub | News | dailynebraskan.com : "University of Nebraska-Lincoln junior Angela Cuadros treats philanthropy like a job. Each week, there are the hours spent mentoring a 17-year-old girl and volunteering with Dance Marathon.

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JANUARY 26, 2015

Colleges Mine Social Media for Clues on Likely Donors – Philanthropy Today - Blogs - The Chronicle of Philanthropy : "A handful of tech start-ups are making tools that harness data and interactions from widely used social networks to help colleges and universities identify alumni with the greatest propensity to donate, writes The New York Times. " (..)

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MAY 18, 2016

Why Vermont's Nonprofits Should Be Thinking About Digital Security | Vermont Public Radio : "Bernholz is a senior research scholar at Stanford University who studies digital civil society and works on using technology for social good among other things.

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MAY 31, 2013

international relief agency | Business Notes - Business | providencejournal.com | The Providence Journal - The Providence Journal : Students at the University of Rhode Island have developed a program that helps donors see how to aim their generous impulses to the most effective actions.

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MAY 8, 2013

Measuring happiness through Twitter : The day of the Boston bombings was the world’s saddest in five years—at least according to the “Hedonometer,” a tool designed by mathematicians at the University of Vermont that acts like a mood ring for the Internet.'

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JULY 9, 2014

For the last year Participant, an activist entertainment company that delivers movies with a message, has been quietly working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Knight Foundation and the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism to answer a question vexing those who would use media to change (..)

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APRIL 10, 2014

Thursday at Temple University''s 1810 Conference Suite, his website-and-event company will unveil its new initiative, the "Commit Pledge of Service." Calling all techies: Donate your skills : But this year, Technically Philly co-founder Brian James Kirk is focusing on something beyond his usual promotion of entrepreneurship and networking.

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JUNE 12, 2012

Other states are likely to follow, says Patrick Rooney, executive director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Charities open their finances to donors via smartphone apps – USATODAY.com : Potential donors in New Jersey and Washington state can already check out charities on their smartphones before they write checks.

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JANUARY 26, 2015

In fact, it would be smart for universities to add a general coding class to the core curriculum required of students in all fields. If we don’t expose our students to this — students we want to lead the next generation of journalism and communication — we are doing them a disservice.

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MAY 4, 2015

The eight inclusive museums include San Francisco’s de Young Museum, Seattle Art Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, San Diego Air and Space Museum, San Diego Museum of Man, San Jose’s Computer History Museum, and the University of South Dakota’s Natural History Museum.

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APRIL 15, 2015

Seymour, nicknamed Si, had published Designs for Fundraising in 1966, a book still highly regarded in the development profession, and was advising Princeton University on a campaign that exceeded its goal and raised $53 million — an astronomical sum at the time." ''via Blog this'''

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

The Stelter Company :: Social By Stelter Resources : Social by Stelter Resources Case Studies The George Washington University Read how Social by Stelter created a month-long social campaign to enhance GWU''s 2012 Alumni Weekend. Download PDF'

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OCTOBER 8, 2013

Baltimore GiveCamp''s "Code for Charity" Weekend Helps 30 Nonprofits | Virtual-Strategy Magazine : his year’s Baltimore GiveCamp, an annual marathon weekend of “Coding for Charity,” will take place from Friday, October 18th through Sunday, October 20th, 2013 at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) Campus in Baltimore, MD.

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JANUARY 28, 2014

Conducted by the Engaging News Project of the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life at the University of Texas at Austin, the study analyzed roughly 2,500 comments made on a Texas TV station’s Facebook page.'

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MAY 12, 2015

Online Fundraising Finally Catching On At.eduThe NonProfit Times : "Online Fundraising Finally Catching On At.edu By Mark Hrywna - May 12, 2015 More colleges and universities are experimenting with social media as part of their fundraising efforts than last year, according to a recent survey, although for the vast majority, it still represents 5 percent (..)

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

They only represent a small fraction of the available universe, but these particular ones keep surfacing in my world. The only question now is how do you keep up? You could start by bookmarking these blogs that I have found to be indispensable social media resources.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Speaker (and SSIR blog contributor) Marcia Stepanek gave this advice to the more than 250 attendees at yesterday’s Social Media on Purpose conference (sponsored by Tides and SSIR) at Stanford University—and it was just one of many golden insights of the day for nonprofit leaders looking to develop strong social media strategies for their organizations. (..)

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Rice professor bringing hand-held technology to schools in India | Ultimate West U: "Krishna Palem, a Rice University professor, is leading an effort on three continents to create a low-cost, electronic version of the hand-held slates that millions of Indian children use in school's today.Thanks to a partnership between Rice, Singapore's Nanyang Technological (..)

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MARCH 26, 2014

"At this point, even two years later, it''s a classic example of how well-designed a social media campaign should be, but also the challenges of keeping an audience''s attention in the social media world," says Marcus Messner, who teaches social media at Virginia Commonwealth University.'

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AUGUST 22, 2013

Kennedy''s "Peace" speech, delivered at American University in June, 1963. A video shows African children playing, women working in fields, men dancing, all beneath a voice track of John F. In that speech, Kennedy exhorted his audience to remember that "we all inhabit this small planet."'

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MARCH 2, 2012

MNN - Mother Nature Network : Dire predictions According to the Elon University Imagining the Internet Center and the Pew Internet Project, which conducted the survey, the technology expert split is closer to 50-50 on whether the rise of the Internet is a boon or a bane. Will the Internet make us brilliant or shallow? |

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