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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Notes, photos and presentations from events. Notes and photos from your work in the field. Ask readers to share opinions, resources, and content (blog posts, photos, audio, video). posts, photos, video). posts, photos, video). Donations made from a link to your donation page from your blog.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

Check out Ace of Cupcakes' photos of dog-related cupcakes they made for a fundraiser, and these Flickr photos of 100+ cupcakes a woman baked to benefit the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society. They are asking bakeries to donate a portion of their sales from select cupcakes to CancerCare for Kids.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

During the conference, there was a hashtag campaign – #beatcancer where PayPal and SWAGG will donated $0.05 We did a fun icebreaker having folks take a photo of each other with their smart phones and post on Twitter. Photo by KK. for every hashtag mention to cancer charities. Insights From Vegas.

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DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. Photo by Dmason. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills. Support Children.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Flickr Photo from Avylavitra Several weeks ago I wrote a post on BlogHer about Foko Madagascar and Joan Razafimharo , an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. So I had great time eating my favourite chocolate waffle when watching Harry my favourite green geek.

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AUGUST 25, 2008

Thousands of photos in flickr (and really good ones). Later that summer, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ponzi at BlogHer. A couple of personal highlights of the sessions: Photography Tips Kris Krug who is an awesome photographer who gave us great tips on improving our photos. Two awesome parties.

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OCTOBER 10, 2008

I liked a couple party ideas from their site: A treasure hunt where everything the guests find is donated to a children's hospital. All of the gifts are pooled to purchase one gift, and one donation to a cause for the birthday boy or girl. Flickr photo credit: Birthday Cake 08 uploaded by Anne Norman. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. So, the Sharing Foundation has continued to use our method of getting donated laptops in the US, refurbishing them, and getting them to Cambodia. Virginia Debolt who covers the technology beat at BlogHer has a great roundup of the reactions. I blogged it and was initially very excited!

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JULY 30, 2006

The last BlogHer Conference session I went to yesterday, before leaving early to go to a wedding, was about using blogging for Community Assistance. She steered away from using a PayPal button and worked only with donations of supplies and equipment. Work with traditional media and blogs to get the word out about your work.

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APRIL 16, 2008

Photo from Roger Carr's Juvenile Arthritis Weekend Set You can donate here. I've just donated to his campaign and here's why. are sending me broadcast emails and generic private messages on Facebook asking me to donate. The image is from Roger Carr who is raising money to support the Arthritis Foundation???s

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Cross-posted from BlogHer. Flickr photo credit: Luck of Summer Rain uploaded by Gordana Adamovic-Mladenovic. Photo of Dora the Cat by Me. philanthropy donation nonprofit Women for Women International blog What are 13 causes you'd give to if you won the lottery? What causes are close to your heart?

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JULY 29, 2006

The first whole group session of Day 2 of BlogHer was, “How Has Blogging Changed your World?” When Hurricane Katrina hit, she and her blogging partner decided to write a post asking their readers to post items in the comments section that they could donate to Katrina survivors. I have friends all over the world,” she said smiling.

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MARCH 4, 2009

Fellow BlogHer Contributing Editor, Beth Kanter, writes about the fundraising Twitter campaign for CARE happening in conjunction with the film in her post, Tweetathon To Honor International Women's Day and To Spread The Word About A Powerful Noise Live. The film is being presented by Fathom Events, CARE , ONE , and the U.N.

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JULY 2, 2008

Donate 5 % of my income. What I've done: Donated 3% Challenge for rest of 2008: Step it up to 5% 6. Here are what some people wrote in the comments of the original post on Have Fun * Do Good and BlogHer that they were going to do : Green LA Girl said she would pack her own chopsticks. Photo by me.

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JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. We can track other advos they participate in, donations they give, etc. Make it EASY.

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OCTOBER 18, 2006

Photo courtesy of Laura Allen. I met Laura at Boston Podcamp very briefly and grabbed her card so I could catch up with her for an interview for Blogher. How do you as a progressive, compassionate person decide which causes to donate money to? d all raise a lot more awareness and donations. d bet that they???d

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. You don't necessarily see women keynote at technology conferences (well accept for women focused technology conferences like blogher ), but Geoff was trying hard ensure a gender balanced program and succeeded. George Brett who took some great photos of conference. This is just a sampling.

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AUGUST 5, 2007

Photo by Shel Israel. They would match donations $1 up to $2,000 I raised for the project. Jen Lemen and Mom2Amara graciously donated t-shirts and I got three business cards from tech companies with an offer of t-shirts. She told me that she bought because she saw the photo on my blog with my kids wearing my t-shirt.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009

You could also make a donation in your Valentine's honor. Many organizations will provide you with a special card or e-card to let your Valentine know about your donation. Cross-posted from BlogHer. Photo by Nu Ho from our wedding. valentine gfit nonprofit donate volunteer fair trade

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DECEMBER 6, 2006

Photo by Andy Welsh from flickr - cc "by" license. A question about whether or not to use the "donate" link in every blog post. In addition, I also look at the Technorati ratings, but with a huge a grain of salt (thanks to my smart blogher friend, Amy Gahran.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

What do you think nonprofits can do to prevent supporters and potential supporters from deleting/hanging up on all of the asks to donate, advocate and learn that are coming their way during these overly networked times? Cross-posted from BlogHer. Photo of Laika the Cat by Me. Britt Bravo is a Big Vision Consultant.

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JUNE 30, 2007

I put each woman's photo at the beginning of when she talks to mark each section. The place where we get out bamboo in China, they had floods last year so we started donating 20% of our proceeds back to them so they could rebuild their factories. Oh yeah, and I do some talking in the beginning, too (: The panel was about 50 minutes.

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