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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. As a team, we discussed opportunity areas that emerged from our early conversations with the Community Fellows.

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Blog Action Day: Can One Person Make A Difference? Challenging Poverty With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today is Blog Action Day where over 11,000 bloggers/sites around the world will publish, donate, or promote the issue of poverty.  The project started by a college student named Shawn whose wants to make the world a better place one small personal action at a time.   Share Blog Action Day posts in Google Reader.

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The Davos Blur

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I spend time desperately trying to capture some of these insights myself, or give someone an action item (send me an email on that and I’ll do it). James Moody of Australia’s national research organization was talking about an idea of a humanitarian license for patents that has been floated by the YGL community.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Millennial Service (Paul Schmitz, Soma and Rachael Chong, Catchafire)

NTEN

There are many people that you wouldn''t have expected would become leaders, including myself Creating a new definition of leadership: 1) an action that many people take 2) leaders take responsibility 3) values At Public Allies, we use a construct pulled from the Army''s leadership model: Be, Know, Do. Be: who am I as a leader?

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A Round Up of Food Charities and Causes to Fight Hunger

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The victims of Cyclone Sidr in the southwestern region of Bangladesh have immediate needs for relief items, including food and non-food items, emergency shelter, basic health care, clean water and more. I thought I'd highlight a few charitable organizations that are working to end hunger and some opportunities for donations.

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Tech@State – Civil Society 2.0: Reflections on Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But as Mark Horvath pointed out in his remarks and (we’ve had many discussions about this issue ), he and his work has not always been greeted with open arms and an invitation to lunch by nonprofit homeless agencies or government entities. In fact, he’s been told in no uncertain terms to get out of their community!

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Research Friday: The Functions of Government in Social Entrepreneurship

ASU Lodestar Center

ASU School of Community Resources & Development. For example, many of the reforms from the Progressive Era in the early 20th century depended on action from both government and charities. is Assistant Professor of Social Entrepreneurship in the School of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University.