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Is it a movement or a moment?

Candid

Movements often involve a rallying cry, a widely recognized iconography, often a color (think pink for breast cancer), meaningful dates, repeated activities (from Freedom Rides to annual walks), and a shared goal for the common good. We know hunger is preventable, and the event offered an opportunity to rethink how we approach the issue.

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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

Qgiv

Ensuring you have access to the photos and stories you need to paint the full picture. Example : , Jennifer is first a mother of 3 and a musician, who is facing cancer. She is not a cancer patient first.) The images you employ and the stories you tell paint a complete messaging composition.

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Secret Agent L: Covering the Globe with Random Acts of Kindess

Have Fun - Do Good

Photo by Rob de la Cretaz "We're so busy. I decided to do a little anonymous act of kindness, take photos, call it a secret mission, put it up on a blog, and then I told her about it. I follow your blog, and you don't put up every photo that everyone sends you, do you? I try to post most of the photos that the agent sends to me.

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. September is Hunger Awareness Month so why not give a donation of canned goods and cash to your local food bank? October is also breast cancer awareness month, so why not make a donation ?

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Convio 2008 Innovator Awards

Care2

Created a wall of 5,000 signers' photos. Honorable Mention: Sierra Club and American Cancer Society. Honorable Mention: CauseForce and Project Bread - The Walk for Hunger. Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies. Constituent Empowerment.

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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

Get Fully Funded

If hunger among the elderly is on the rise nationally, share what you’re seeing locally along with a few key stats and a little about how you’re addressing the need in your community. Include 1 – 3 photos and a short video, if you have one. Embed your photos in the email. Convert your press release to a PDF.

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Bikinis, Greed & Adrenaline: Secrets of Social Media’s Dark Underbelly

Connection Cafe

The most productive employees each week win bikinis, plus beach photo-shoots to properly prime their Facebook profile pics. Here are some thoughts I took away, for anyone who wants to stack the deck against poverty & hunger, despair & disease. Wednesdays are poker classes. Fridays provide manicures and pedicures.

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