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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

While there are many new and exciting organizations and platforms emerging we are speaking with three we know at the forefront - Causes.com, American Cancer Society, and StartSomeGood.com. Miles Orkin, National Director for Mobile and Web forAmerican Cancer Society Fundraising Focus: Mobile. Over and over again.

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Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An example of impact-driven fundraising gifts are hand-sewn scarves from a family who started a local business as a result of your donor’s micro-finance loan or a personal letter from a child who you sponsored for her education. In a nutshell, donors that received a gift, felt selfish, which in turn reduced the motivation for giving.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

Cell Slider , which is a crowdsourced online tool for cancer research that challenges the ponderous cancer research establishment. This is an astonishing technology for good in which large numbers of ordinary people analyze photos of cells cultures to identify irregular shaped cancer cell cores. See the map here. All Things D.

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Data for Global Health, Part II

Forum One

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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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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Jewish Television Network Delivers Online Religious Service

See3

I am watching in Japan, the nearest synagogue is in a different city. Although I belong to a Synagogue, I am stuck at home recovering from cancer treatments. I’m recovering from a motorcycle accident and unable to attend services at my local synagogue. Thank you for having this online. Melissa Pappert. Adam Greenberg.

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