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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Lavelle Fund exemplifies the tremendous social return that bold philanthropy can create. Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects. Of course, in India and other developing countries, the gap is even larger.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. To prove that point, this video tweet from @WildlifeSOS that tells the good news story of a nail-biting rescue of a leopard in India received very high engagement compared to their other tweets: 4.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The Chronicle of Philanthropy – Telling Moving Stories

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You need to subscribe to see the whole thing, but here’s an except: When the American Jewish World Service used to talk about using video to illustrate its overseas aid projects, it usually meant gathering enough footage for a seven-minute spot to be shown to the people who would attend its annual fund-raising dinners. Feed verfolgen.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » The Chronicle of Philanthropy – Telling Moving Stories

See3

You need to subscribe to see the whole thing, but here’s an except: When the American Jewish World Service used to talk about using video to illustrate its overseas aid projects, it usually meant gathering enough footage for a seven-minute spot to be shown to the people who would attend its annual fund-raising dinners. Feed verfolgen.

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf

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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Details about the project have been hard to come by over the past few months, but here’s what we know: What. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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5 Key Insights from the 2010 Global State of the Nonprofit.

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Responses were received from 2,383 individuals in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Face-to-face fundraising is mentioned most frequently by respondents from the Netherlands, major donor cultivation is cited by respondents from Canada, India, and the U.K.,

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