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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. The Little Golden books from my childhood, non-fiction books that revolutionized my perspective of the world and novels that I rarely take the luxury of reading.

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Which Crowdfunding Platform Is Best for Your Organization?

Tech Soup

Indiegogo is quite a bit more flexible than Kickstarter, giving you the option to choose an "all-or-nothing model or to keep your pledges whether you not you reach your goal. Nonprofit Success Story : One Girl, an Australian-based nonprofit, held a fundraiser for providing education opportunities for girls in rural Africa.

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Which Crowdfunding Platform Is Best for Your Organization?

Tech Soup

Indiegogo is quite a bit more flexible than Kickstarter, giving you the option to choose an "all-or-nothing model or to keep your pledges whether you not you reach your goal. Nonprofit Success Story : One Girl, an Australian-based nonprofit, held a fundraiser for providing education opportunities for girls in rural Africa.

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How Nelson Mandela’s Legacy to Advance Access to Education Lives On

Saleforce Nonprofit

In 1990, four months after being released from prison, Mandela visited Madison Park High School in Boston to address the community , and he expressed his deep concern about school dropouts both in South Africa and the U.S. The organisation personifies Mandela’s words, but also acts as inspiration for his legacy to live on in Africa.

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Solutionary Women: Jessica Jackley Flannery of Kiva

Have Fun - Do Good

I have a wonderful family and had just the best childhood and the best growing up. At that time, I had only been married to Matt for six months, and then I quit my job and I left for three months to East Africa. We would be out on a four-hour drive, way out in the middle of a village in rural East Africa, but our cell phone would work.

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