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I'll Comment for Food Donations, Ten Cents for Woman's Shelter, and Other Interesting Social Media Charity Trends

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But hunger is a serious issue in America, especially in these difficult times. First Book has teamed up with Disney to celebrate the release of "Bedtime Stories," a holiday movie. Innovative Giving: The Nature Conservancy and (Lil) Green Patch. Innovative Giving: Tyson Foods For Hunger Relief.

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Interviews with 69 Changemakers: 6th Anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast

Have Fun - Do Good

If you're an iTunes user, one of the ways you can help me celebrate this anniversary is by finding the Big Vision Podcast in the iTunes Store and giving it a star rating (hopefully a good one!), You can view all of the interviews, and subscribe to the show, on iTunes , or on the Big Vision Podcast's landing page.

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From Ashton Kutcher to Soup: Super Bowl Giving

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I've compiled some Super Bowl fundraiser ideas, celebrity events, and corporate cause marketing campaigns below. The Souper Bowl of Caring 's mission is to use, "Super Bowl weekend to mobilize youth to fight hunger and poverty in their local communities." Celebrities are using the Super Bowl to raise money too.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What about a gift in their honor to celebrate the special day. April: We celebrate Earth Day this month. An easy way to support the Nature Conservancy if you're on Facebook is to install (Lil) Green Patch. September is Hunger Awareness Month so why not give a donation of canned goods and cash to your local food bank?

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How Chestnut Ridge Church Reinvents the Church Experience with Technology

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It's an evangelical church with astonishing programs that attracts the crowds, including celebrities like former New York Giants quarterback, Jeff Hostetler, and his family. The 30-Hour Famine event is a project in which school children learn about hunger, raise funds to help hungry kids in the world, and experience hunger for themselves.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's just three people/content connections on this topic that I found from Technorati search: A search on "tags" lead me directly to a YouTube channel from the Youth Health Alliance and a series of youth-created videos on nutrition, including the one above that explains why it is better to drink green tea versus software drinks.

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

All you had to do was click and play a word game, and that leveraged a food donation to fight hunger. In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. Participation from some celebrities and notables.

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