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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Since then it has grown from 106 million active monthly users to 310 million active monthly users. Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. For the first 13 years of its existence, growth was slow but steady. Curated content relevant to your mission.

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Mobile for Good: Fire Phone, Locking Down Data, and Services for the Homeless

Tech Soup

I'll also update you on the "kill switch" initiatives as well as a nonprofit that's using mobile services to alleviate homelessness. So let's say you're watching a movie and the camera pans to a can of Spam on a kitchen counter. Activate Windows Phone Lock! Homelessness and Mobile Technology.

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Are Online Vote-for-Me Contests A Good Idea?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jared Paul, the co-founder of a new nonprofit that has a focus on homeless youth and one of the winners of the $25,000 in the first phase of Chase's Giving Community Contest offered to share his thoughts. Chase also created an “activity” page where you could see who was voting for which nonprofit.

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Do’s and Don’ts for Your Next Email Fundraising Appeal

Connection Cafe

Sure, your website, social media, and crowdfunding are all important fundraising channels, but no other online medium lets you go out and actively communicate with your donors online like e-mail. DON’T Spam. Never send out unsolicited (spam) emails. Email is the killer app for online fundraising. You get the idea….

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10 Ways to Build a Better Community Brainstorming Meeting

Museum 2.0

Not surprisingly, a different focus group of social service providers and homeless adults had a very different set of concerns about downtown. Include a mix of individual activities (often writing or drawing), partner/small group work, and whole group discussion. Use unorthodox activities to inspire fresh thinking.

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Second Life: Issue Awareness Raising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But wanted to capture some quick thoughts related to a couple of recent awareness raising activities taking place in Second Life or recently launched. Rik wrote a great post this called Global Poverty Death Counter: good cause, @!#(*@() implementation (Rik used another word in the headline, but I don't any trackback spam).

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Why Do People Stop Giving?

ASU Lodestar Center

We tune into causes through our relationships with others, whether its a kid from our neighborhood in a youth group, our sister doing a breast cancer run, or our friend organizing a reading night at a homeless shelter. The reality is, we're all bombarded with digital messages and shares and likes and spam. Excellent example Kayla.