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Try Eating for $4 a Day. Join The Hunger Challenge

Have Fun - Do Good

Last year, 6 food bloggers and recipe developers tried to eat 3 meals on $3 per day during the 2008 San Francisco Food Bank's Hunger Challenge. You don't have to be a blogger, or live in the Bay Area to take the Challenge). food bank hunger food stamp blogger You can take the Challenge for one day, or for the whole week.

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Countdown to Civic Data Challenge Deadline: Turn Raw Data into Community Tools

Tech Soup

Beth Kanter, nonprofit technology expert, author, blogger, trainer. Brady, dean and professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. Virginia Carlson, board member, the Association of Public Data Users. Matt Mahan, president and acting CEO, Causes. Bob Kocher, partner, Venrock.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Angela Stockman , an educator and blogger in upstate New York, told me about how Sarah Hanson from Alden High School and Stacy VanEtten's seventh grade class are participating in the Working Together 2 Make A Difference project. Network Solutions partnered with a 12-year old Connor who was raising money for hunger by selling popcorn.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Marketing, Fundraising, and Philanthropy So far, there will be at least four bloggers live blogging at the Council on Foundations conference. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" They have begun inviting local bloggers as press to openings and events - usually they get in touch with Mike Woycheck or Cynthia Closkey, two of the co-founders of Pittsburgh Bloggers , who then re-blog the invitation and spread it via Facebook or their own Twitter streams. see for example the post about blogging policy ).

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Really, How Many.

ASU Lodestar Center

However, about 1,000 private grantmaking foundations, like the Virginia G. We havent seen the fruits of this policy change yet, but it will soon help us know how many federally recognized nonprofits are really operating. What Next — Charles Best is "Character Approved" Twitter Updates Powered by Blogger.