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Nepal Earthquake Roundup: Emergency Fundraising Attention Cycle

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Nancy Schwartz has an fantastic blog post offering expert advice on how nonprofits should communicate during a crisis, using the situation in Baltimore and the Nepal Earthquake as hooks to offer some recommendations. The CDP Nepal Earthquake Recovery Fund focuses on medium- and long-term rebuilding and recovery.

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Foundation Supported Social Enterprises (FOSE): Expanding the Use of Program Related Investments

ASU Lodestar Center

This blog post is second in a two part series on Foundation Supported Social Enterprises. The Nick Simons Foundation did not have a large staff. The foundation opened in 2005 when Nick Simons, a great lover and visitor of Nepal died. Click here to learn more Risk: Funding innovation requires foundations to take a risk.

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Foundation Supported Social Enterprises (FOSE): Expanding the Use of Program Related Investments (part 2)

ASU Lodestar Center

This blog post is second in a two part series on Foundation Supported Social Enterprises. The Nick Simons Foundation did not have a large staff. The foundation opened in 2005 when Nick Simons, a great lover and visitor of Nepal died. Risk: Funding innovation requires foundations to take a risk.

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Join Us at BoxWorks and Harness Online Tech

Tech Soup

Learn as nonprofits tell their Box stories and share advice throughout the conference. Hear from nonprofits such as Teach for America, The Nature Conservancy, ASPCA, The James Irvine Foundation, New Story, Team Rubicon, and more! p.s. Please join Box employees and our partners and donate to our Nepal recovery fund.

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How the NetSquared Challenges Have Accelerated Tech for Good

Tech Soup

I for one lost one year, but made a ton of connections and got great advice/input on what was then just a rough idea. million posts or testimonies on Ushahidi to benefit an estimated 20 million people in stricken areas like Haiti in 2010 and Nepal in 2015. The next year the idea got a little less rough and I entered again.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Connecting with Millennials (Mike Del Ponte, Soma)

NTEN

Buck Foundation – "Once you get accepted, as long as you''re in school, they pay for your entire life. I did microfinance consulting in Nepal. MDP: My advice: focus on results. I was devastated and depressed." The envelope that changed everything Then one day saw an envelope in the mailbox. Ripped it open. What are you best at?

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The Journey of the Spiritual Activist: An Interview with Marisa Handler

Have Fun - Do Good

It's been a foundation to begin with, and to return to. As I wrote in Loyal to the Sky , I spent about five months in India and Nepal right after 9/11. BB: What advice do you have for activists and social chang-y folks who want to integrate a spiritual practice, whether it's meditation or something else into their work?