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The Value of Diverse Perspective: Reimagine Opportunity Challenge Wrap-Up

Tech Soup

The innovation workshop brought together all twelve finalist teams, along with human trafficking survivors, experts from the anti-trafficking field, employees from a variety of federal agencies, and coaches from all walks of life – law enforcement, architecture, venture capital, public relations, big data, digital media, and networking.

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

So the general proposition or principle in fundraising, which I learned decades ago, but does bear repeating, is that if you ask for money, you get advice, and if you’re asked for advice, you get money. . ” And the volunteer said, “Oh, I’m not asking for money, I just want to get your advice.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

Another one that I wanted to do would be, and that I'm actually looking into, is it's California law that if you lay off 50 people or more in the next six months you have to announce that and make that public. What advice do you have for journalists right now? Yes, definitely. I can imagine doing that for all kinds of issues.

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Got the Winter Blues? Giving May Cheer You Up

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According to the Washington Post article, If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Only Be Natural , another study found that when, "volunteers placed the interests of others before their own, the generosity activated a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food or sex. I'm a big fan of Kiva too.

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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

Connection Cafe

I bet I would have repeated my coworker’s advice in a tweet: “Get word to your parents if you can. My boss gave maternal advice. And my Mom says she’ll never forget that her first knowledge of the events of the day came through my voice, whole and well, telling her to turn on the television. Tell them where you are.

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Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange Talks about the Global Citizen Center

Have Fun - Do Good

Everybody says great idea, but you have to make sure you watch out for this, and everybody's got some advice, but nobody has said bad idea. They build a building, and then they just fill it up, and there's an architecture firm, and a law firm, and whatever. Kevin: In the Green Festival my title is the Executive Co-Producer.

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