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API Explained: This Technology Will Transform Your Company’s Charitable Giving

Global Giving

Companies can use GlobalGiving’s free charity API to access our portfolio of more than 5,000 projects in 160+ countries, including the United States, and put choice in their users’ hands. Q: How have companies used GlobalGiving’s charity API? How might they implement a charity API on their website?

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This nonprofit social arm of the juggernaut game developer has helped to raise more than $7 million for charities through FarmVille 24 million users alone. chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) and urban games group DCGames, organizing events and connecting local developers. Around Gender.

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Tweetathon: Jerry Lewis Meets PBS Pledge Drive To Promote Twitter Book and To Support Clean Drinking Water On Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The event takes a television concept from the 1960's, the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethons , which does non-stop celebrity performances and pitching to raise money for charity and puts it on Twitter as well as live streaming on ustream.tv. Hearts and Hands International is a non-profit 501 C(3) started by Nita and Ken Surritte.

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Which Crowdfunding Platform Is Best for Your Organization?

Tech Soup

It is open to creators from all backgrounds – from charities to video game developers to artists. Kickstarter makes it clear that it isn't for direct charity or cause funding, but about project creation. Amazingly, the organization has surpassed this goal and (as of this article) has raised $11,547.

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Your Tweet Can Leverage A 10 Cent Donation to Care March 2-5th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last month, the Twitter community came together online and offline in over 180 cities around the world to raise money for charity:water with the highly successful " Twestival " fundraising event which brought in over $250,000. The event attracted a lot of attention because it was an example of integrating a live charity event with Twitter.

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Which Crowdfunding Platform Is Best for Your Organization?

Tech Soup

It is open to creators from all backgrounds – from charities to video game developers to artists. Kickstarter makes it clear that it isn't for direct charity or cause funding, but about project creation. Amazingly, the organization has surpassed this goal and (as of this article) has raised $11,547.

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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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