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Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Lendingmemo. For example, I raised $120,000 for Japan disaster relief by showing how the tsunami destroyed cities and displaced communities. They raised $28,000. Tragedy - In Breaking Bad, Walter White dives into the world of making meth. He falls into something bad and gets more and more evil each day.

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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.

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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 have them in Japan, and I have them in Germany. I follow your blog, and you don't put up every photo that everyone sends you, do you?

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Ask Starbucks to Hold the Hormones in 50 States

Have Fun - Do Good

Another major concern I have with Starbucks’ use of rBGH is that there are potential cancer risks from this genetically engineered hormone. In numerous studies, too much IGF-1 is associated with higher rates of breast, prostate, colon, and lung cancer in humans. rBGH increases another hormone in cows and cows’ milk, called IGF-1.