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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The neuroscientists at the Gazzaley Lab at University of California, San Francisco, have shown that games can improve our cognitive function. Since 2009, Zynga.org has enabled millions of players to contribute nearly $20 million to more than 30 nonprofit organizations globally. Conferences'

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

The original Encore Fellowships program in California pairs former corporate professionals with clinics and consortia in the Central Valley and the greater San Francisco Bay Area. 2009) found that stipends promote inclusion, efficiency and effectiveness. All the volunteers were working as tutors in local elementary schools.

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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. It was to serve as the kickoff for Red House 2009 and was hosted by a board member.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

In 2009, The Academy Award winning film The Cove used the activism platform to create one of the most successful causes , bringing together over 1 million people to end the dolphin slaughter in Japan. Nearly 100 years later, in 2009, they became the “official sponsor of birthdays,” launching a movement for more birthdays.

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22 Years Ago…

Tech Soup

It is universally perceived as grim stuff. in San Francisco. decades, he has guided TechSoup Global from a small, local nonprofit to a globally respected organization. " In 2009, Ben-Horin received the "Lifetime Achievement. In this story, we are in year two of getting to. having any fun with technology.

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2011 NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference ? Day 3

sgEngage

From universal search to offsite content strategies, and from link building to location based services and local search, there’s a whole new frontier out there – and guess what, people? Next year the conference is back in San Francisco. It’s not even on YOUR website. That’s it for NTC 2011.

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Leaders in Nonprofit Technology: Daniel Ben-Horin

Tech Soup

It grew out of a pioneer online community in the San Francisco Bay Area called The Well , the acronym for The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. He took a psychology degree from the University of Chicago in 1969 and became a reporter and columnist for the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix. How TechSoup Started.