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Try Eating for $4 a Day. Join The Hunger Challenge

Have Fun - Do Good

I didn't, until I read about the San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger Challenge. Last year, 6 food bloggers and recipe developers tried to eat 3 meals on $3 per day during the 2008 San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger Challenge. You can take the Challenge for one day, or for the whole week.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Its strategic partnership with Electronic Arts has enabled GlassLab to develop SimCityEDU, a game-based classroom tool that uses the beloved SimCity franchise to engage students in real-world challenges. Since 2009, Zynga.org has enabled millions of players to contribute nearly $20 million to more than 30 nonprofit organizations globally.

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Human Rights Trainings in Nigeria

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

During my first visit to the Nigerian capital of Abuja last April, I learned that a member of the NHRC who had been monitoring local elections had been beaten and unlawfully detained. Despite these challenges, the NHRC was clearly interested in using Martus to safeguard information about sensitive human rights complaints.

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Build Communities to Enhance Your Fundraising Campaigns

NTEN

The organization and challenge: After years of traditional fund-raising events, Catholic Charities CYO (CC) in San Francisco decided its approach was getting stale and that it needed to broaden its audience to include opportunities for young people. In 2009, Red House 2009 generated $23,000 in donations.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

The wide variety of choices and tools to integrate make this field exciting and challenging terrain for nonprofit leaders; we will take your questions in this one hour live interactive event. Nearly 100 years later, in 2009, they became the “official sponsor of birthdays,” launching a movement for more birthdays.

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Interviews with 69 Changemakers: 6th Anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast

Have Fun - Do Good

Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt! Listen Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder, Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, Filmmaker, A Drop of Life.

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Interviews with 56 Changemakers: 5th Anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast

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Marisa Handler, Author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!