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TechSoup Member Organizations Doing Great Work During Hard Times

Tech Soup

Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition — Boston. The Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) represents 1 million immigrants and refugees in New England. It provides policy analysis and advocacy, institutional organizing, training development, and strategic communications.

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Are Memes Really Just Slacktivism?

Care2

Many thought the meme was connected to raising breast cancer awareness, but that was not the intention behind it. The point is to see how far we can spread breast cancer awareness … and make the men wonder what’s up :) ". It’s a vanity metric – not a metric that is connected to furthering your advocacy goals.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

The Greater Boston Food Bank. Received the 2021 Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Pinnacle Award for Excellence in Nonprofit Management . Arlene Fortunato.

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Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock: Adding to Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

is an online engagement strategist for World Resources Institutes and in her spare time writes a blog about using metrics for nonprofit web advocacy. is Vice President of Operations of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition and was one of the first nonprofit technology bloggers. Laura Lee Dooley. Michelle Murrain. Jordan Viator.

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Which Social Networking Analysis Term Best Describes Virgin America?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A minute later I noticed Pistachio's tweet about flying Virgin America from Boston and Glenn Stratchan direct messaged me asking what seat I was in because he thought we might be on the same Virgin America flight. . Marty Kearns has a diagnostic tool over in his Advocacy 2.0 Low-Tech Approaches.

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Has the Ice Bucket Challenge Spawned Charity Jacking?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It did not spread until Pete Frates , the former captain of Boston College’s baseball team, repurposed the meme by challenging Steve Gleason to throw a bucket of ice over his head to raise awareness for ALS. Blue it Up (Lung cancer). Macmillan Cancer Support. It started as a way just to challenge friends to donate to a charity.

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Book Review: “Charity Case”

Connection Cafe

Dan Pallotta would go on to invent the multi-day charitable event industry with the AIDS Rides and Breast Cancer 3-Days. “Our sector does have an extremely proficient and hard-working national advocacy organization: Independent Sector. It has an annual budget of $8 million.”

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