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Use Social Media to Reel in Big Fish Donors

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His first Facebook campaign raised $250,000 in 2005 for Genocide Intervention Network, now known as [link]. Effective social media outreach takes at least 25 hours of staff time per week, according to the Ditch Digital Dabbling research report. Small donations add up, as Mark Hanis found. Too many contracts become irritating.

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Upwardly Global: Bridging the Opportunity Gap for Skilled Immigrants

Tech Soup

Although that plant was considered a model employer for refugees at the time, Jane met employees who included a former engineer from Iraq and a surgeon from Bosnia. This called for more effective communication technology." at their full potential.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia. • Social media and crowdsourcing • Portable Networks. also reports some news that effect libraries. Hacker Helper is currently in beta. After that we hope lots of people will contribute content to it. See the map here.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

Have Fun - Do Good

This week's Solutionary Woman is 24-year-old Heddy Nam, the Associate to the Chief Operating Officer of Amnesty International USA and co-founder of Never Again , an international network of young people working for peace. The outcome will hopefully improve Amnesty’s effectiveness, helping more people in the long run.

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