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Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If this is your first time with crowdfunding, you can ask yourself: How much do I need to make an impact? Instead, you should focus on impact-focused rewards. Impact-driven fundraising gifts are an all-around win-win because it matches both the donor’s motivations to give and the tangible impact on the one who received it.

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Data for Global Health, Part II

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how do you evaluate the health significance of "one glass of rice wine per day" in China vs. Japan?). Betsy Rolland of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Asia Cohort Consortium , a group tasked with wrangling and consolidating data from half a dozen Asian countries, is wrestling with these issues every day in her work.

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Ask Starbucks to Hold the Hormones on December 5th

Have Fun - Do Good

It is banned in Canada, Japan, Australia, and the European Union. Also, rBGH increases a hormone called IGF-1 in cows that is linked to an increase in colon, breast and prostrate cancer when humans have too much of it. In the United States, rBGH is given to about 22% of cows.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

I have them in Japan, and I have them in Germany. The two of us went to a local hospital during a cancer expo, and we basically, for lack of a better word, we hijacked the place. All had little ribbons, or whatever on them, and we just left stuff all over this cancer expo. About how many agents do you have? Oh, my gosh!

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