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10 Years of PeaceTalks: What Does Peace Mean to You?

Saleforce Nonprofit

It often feels like there is little hope for our future and that there’s barely anything we can do to solve any of these big issues. These stories and narratives about the major social issues of our time can have an incredible impact on our beliefs around change and our motivation to make it happen. Why does nobody save the children?

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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

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Strength-Based Messaging: A Powerful Tool Thankfully, in recent years, new and long overdue attention has been focused on changing the way we build our donor relationships. Because it recognizes the root causes of social ills, by definition it describes a long-game issue that extends beyond solving challenges for an individual.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs?

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

By slowing down and making a piece of art for someone, we provide a personal connection to the issues and to individuals and create opportunities to see our commonalities despite geographic or cultural borders. There are many issues that affect the well-being of women and their communities.

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The Craig Newmark Beneblog Interview

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There are two hot issue right now on Craig's social action radar, the new launch of the All For Good website and next weekend's Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp in Berkeley. Also working with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America to help get them the respect and services they deserve, working on reform of the VA. A: Nerds can help.

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Guest post by Brian Reich: GamesThatGive - You Play. We Donate. Charities Win.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have seen hundreds of ideas for new tools and technologies designed to help raise money for charities, none of which ever lived up to the billing. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association. The list of partner charities at launch include: US Fund for UNICEF. The Wilderness Society. Ronald McDonald House Charities. Feeding America.

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How to Build Platforms that Our Movements Can Own

Non Profit Quarterly

And the nonprofit is left hanging, ten years later, with a tool that is full of bugs and issues, near unusable. For example, if a group raises $1,000 for a project that builds community power—like a mutual aid group, a skillshare, a giving circle, a timebank, or a tool library—who is going to hold onto the money that was raised?

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