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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I joined, we were a staff of three, and we're now at 55 in two countries: the US and Argentina. The wiki model has great potential for us: since we are always looking to share resources through our website, why not make it easier for the public to contribute great ideas and resources they know about? Social media, etc.)