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Children's Birthday Parties with a Purpose

Have Fun - Do Good

I liked a couple party ideas from their site: A treasure hunt where everything the guests find is donated to a children's hospital. Here are more ideas from the blogosphere: The Mom Salon writes about ECHOage: Teaching Children About Giving Back. Flickr photo credit: Birthday Cake 08 uploaded by Anne Norman.

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Storymakers 2016 Winners

Tech Soup

Imagine children around the United States learning mindfulness. Then imagine how this teaching can impact children's lives, transforming their journey through life. The viewer is left imagining the future, wondering what stories these children will tell themselves someday. Story of Tomorrow Winner — SEEDS final.

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Beth's 51st Birthday Challenge: Can I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation for my birthday? (It's on Jan. 11th)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I celebrated with a flickr photo birthday card remix contest. That's a photo of me celebrating my 5th birthday oh so many years ago. This year I'm gonna celebrate by trying to get 51 people to donate $10 in 51 hours to the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge over at Global Giving. Last year for the big 5.0,

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Member Appreciation Month wrap-up: #ntenthanks, event archives, and the grand prize winners!

NTEN

Worth group , and the amazing community celebration by and for our Portland, OR community. Sara Benzkofer of Minnesota Association for Children''s Mental Health walked away with a PIR notebook and pen set. Flickr photo credit: woodleywonderworks. 31st is Victoria Miller of Trisomy 18 Foundation.

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Learning in Public: To What End?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Justin Benttinen. At The Global Fund for Children , we’ve worked hard to establish a culture of measurement, monitoring and learning about our role as a grantmaker, about the tangible and intangible benefits of our grant investment model, and about understanding of the wicked social problems we are trying to mitigate.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. Invisible Children’s film tapped into a network of celebrities, whose tweets and status updates helped to amplify a simple story and call to action. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Thank You Adam and Mark for the early Birthday present!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As some readers of this blog may remember, last year at about this time, I celebrated the big 5.0 birthday in true social media style with flickr 50th photo birthday card remix contest and I donated 50 bucks to the winner's favorite charity. The winner was Cogdog blog because my kids were the judges and he used a cute doggy photo).

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