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Personal Fundraising in Second Life: Yonder Doesburg Raises Money for Make A Wish

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Although the amounts raised in Linden Dollars sound impressive, the USD amounts are still modest. My brother in-law (the boy's father) has an account in SL and together we designed the Make A Wish donation boxes and set up the first donation site in 2006. I sold all my land at one point when I moved to Alaska.

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Making Stories Work for Your Org: What the Data Says

NTEN

Their four central points may sound familiar: Stories are universal. For a national civil rights organization, we tested a "political" appeal — focused on the supporter's potential role in overturning a controversial law — against a version that told the story of a family affected by that law. Stories mirror human thought.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

We went and had a victory party and then woke up the next day and realized that it didn't really matter because the company that wanted to build had gone to the state legislature to get them to pass a law to undercut the local ordinance that would protect our water. And I started working with a community outside of St.

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