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

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

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Which Crowdfunding Platform Is Best for Your Organization?

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If you're just doing a general fundraising campaign, Razoo or CauseVox might be the way to go. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared (where Ushahidi won its first challenge!). CauseVox is a fundraising platform and isn't project based like Kickstarter or Teespring.

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Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock: Adding to Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology List

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So, when Lynne Johnson from Fast Company asked me to blog a list, I thought I'd create a nonprofit technology category and acknowledge the work of these awesome women: Nonprofit Technology Marnie Webb is the Co-CEO of TechSoup Global and creator of Netsquared and was voted most valuable person in the nonprofit technology field in 2008.

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Which Crowdfunding Platform Is Best for Your Organization?

Tech Soup

If you're just doing a general fundraising campaign, Razoo or CauseVox might be the way to go. You can read about the campaign over on NetSquared. CauseVox is a fundraising platform and isn't project based like Kickstarter or Teespring. If you are interested in offering merchandise, check out Teespring.

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

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There's a roundup of coverage on his Netsquared blog , including pointers to live blog posts like this one. More from Britt Bravo on Netsquared blog. The Mashable write up has a freudian typo and describes the Cancer Society and March of Dimes as "high-profit" organizations. Fundraising 2.0 And if you???re

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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

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Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

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Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. Donations 2.0 : Connecting donors directly to the beneficiaries of contributions is a game-changing fundraising strategy.

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