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United Nations Sets a New Agenda for Global Philanthropy

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That may be why technology (for example, rapid mobile phone adoption worldwide) may be so important for realizing the new goals. The previous UN Millennium Development Goals addressed eradicating poverty and hunger, combatting diseases, promoting maternal and childhood health, increasing primary education, and sustaining the environment.

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Guest Post by Holly Hight: When Controlling the Message Stifles Community (and Staff Morale)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While a large percentage of our organization can articulate the importance of being on Facebook, very few staff can grasp how these tools will help to achieve our goals: greater awareness and involvement in the broader movement to address hunger. Social media teaches us that the best way to get the message out is to foster conversation.

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Virtual Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Ideas to Explore

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With just a couple of clicks, anyone can register their own fundraiser and raise money to help CityTeam with combating hunger and homelessness in their city. For instance, ask your peer-to-peer volunteers if they have any expertise that they’d like to share and teach through a community class. Memorial fundraisers.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

adoption strategies ( remix from Association 2.0). Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. For teaching and learning. Examples include Creative Commons Swag Contest and Fight Hunger Video Contest. The growing adoption of wikis in educational.

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How Chestnut Ridge Church Reinvents the Church Experience with Technology

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Teaching pastor, Tim Haring, founded the church in 1985. The 30-Hour Famine event is a project in which school children learn about hunger, raise funds to help hungry kids in the world, and experience hunger for themselves. An Administrative Gift. Tools the Church Uses to Do It All.