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Why Are Charity Mobile Phone Donation Programs Going Extinct?

Tech Soup

Not that long ago, there were dozens of charity mobile phone donation programs vying for attention. One popular method of getting people to turn in their old phones has been to recycle them for charity. Phones 4 Charity. program provides collection boxes for schools, charities and churches and buys the collected phones.

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Right now in digital charity

Connection Cafe

Yesterday I went along to the Mobile and Digital Conference in London , organised by Fundraising magazine, to hear first-hand about how, in a fast-changing world, charities are using social, mobile and digital media to reach new audiences and raise more money. So what can charities do to embrace the future? Author: Julia Woodcock.

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Selfies for Good?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo - NYPL Photo Booth. The photos from both are then immediately uploaded to a Flickr , where anyone can scroll through shots of the library’s enthusiastic patronage. I wondered whether selfies can be used as part of your social content strategy to help support a social good cause?

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Ed Schipul Grew A Mustache (and beard) For His Cause: Texas Children's Hospital Cancer Center!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo from DenneyTerrio. The fundraiser is where group of volunteers grew mustaches and asked their friends to support the charity, the Texas Children's Hospital Center. Ed Schipul is a colleague from the NetSquared Community that I have had the pleasure of knowing for two years now. " I did. in its inaugural year!

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What Are Your Best Tips for Organizing or Facilitating a Charity 2.0 Event?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new. From an article in the New York Times dated April, 1896 about the Hackensack Hospital's Charity Ball) . Charity Ball 2.0

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Member Round Up: Tedx, Chase Community Giving grants, new services, just another quiet holiday week.

NTEN

Flickr: Scott Beale Biking to work last week was like riding through that town in the Andromeda Strain: t here were no other commuters, no car exhaust to cough on while waiting at lights. This week Chase launched the voting period for the 2012 Chase Community Giving program which will award $5 million in grants to 196 charities.

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Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Fensterbme on Flickr. Note from Beth: I’m planning a year-end campaign for one of my favorite charities and wanted some good tips on incorporating video. Here’s an example of a video See3 produced in partnership with Charity Dynamics for the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event.

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