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Cryptocurrency in the nonprofit sector: What you need to know

ASU Lodestar Center

The nonprofit sector is ever-changing, and in this digital age it is now opening its arms to a new way to accept donations : through the blockchain and cryptocurrency. However, for nonprofits, it is essential to remember one key component of cryptocurrency: its value changes rapidly. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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#IFC2014 International Fundraising Congress: Inspire, Connect, Transform

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Plenary content was a creative jigsaw puzzle, a creative collaboration curated by Derek Humphries and hosted by Marcelo Iniarra , from Argentina. A social change fighter ! IFC also commissioned a brief film and song, “ The Moment ,” sung live by an amazing singer, Chris Griffin and composed by Auroris.

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Igniting Your Passion

Connection Cafe

His one for one business model concept grew out of a day of volunteer work while on vacation in Argentina. Blake poignantly said it wasn’t the day that he came up with the concept of TOMS shoes that changed his life, it was the day he distributed his first donation of TOMS Shoes to children in Argentina.

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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: The long anticipated social network site for social change, Jumo , launched. As the platform matures , we’ll get a better sense of the power and potential of this network that lets people find, connect, and support social change organizations and issues. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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An Interview with Lorene Straka, Joanna Eng, and Mari Velasco from the Idealist

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you want to get involved in social change issues or work with nonprofits anyplace on the globe, the Idealist is one of the first desinations on the web you should visit. When I joined, we were a staff of three, and we're now at 55 in two countries: the US and Argentina. It was, and continues to be, a great crew of people.

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An Interview with Silvia Tolisano of Langwitches Blog

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I grew up in Buenos Aires Argentina with a German/Argentinean father and a German mother. tools and my outlook on literacy, available information, research, and cross-referencing opinions has changed completely. Silvia Tolisano, Langwitches Blog Tell me about your background?

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Screencast Treatment: Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of my colleagues in Argentina has started to use it for Idealistas.org and she's inspired me to take another look at it and set up some goals of my own. It's harder to find correlations between incremental site changes and the ebb and flow of web traffic. Top Content is another feature that is extremely valuable.