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Storymakers Past Winners: In Their Own Words

Tech Soup

Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. The campaign raised $120,000 which provided education for 400 Dalit children. " Our first place video for 2012 was by Columbus, Ohio based Dave Thomas Foundation.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A community group worked hard to get her placed on the historic register and raise money to restore her to her mid-century glory. My kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events.

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Overhead: Time to Pull Our Heads Out of the Sand?

Connection Cafe

From Dan Pallotta’s widely viewed TED talk, “ The Way We Think about Charity is Dead Wrong ,” to conferences and publications, overhead is hotly debated. Would local grassroots organizations experience less impact than national charities? In just about any place you look today for advice on fundraising, overhead is being discussed.

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Supporting Nonprofit Tech Educators Across the Globe

Tech Soup

Columbus, Ohio: Nonprofit IT Forum. Columbus, Ohio: Nonprofit IT Forum. Inspiring Leaders to Raise Money Joyfully. London, United Kingdom: Effective Data Mapping for Charities. Monday, December 12, 2016. Kitchener, Ontario: Documenting Things. Tuesday, December 13, 2016. San Francisco, California: Positive Impact Party.

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Crowdsourcing Skills for Human Rights via Movements.org

Tech Soup

Movements.org is an online skills marketplace, operating under the umbrella of the charity Advancing Human Rights. " Offering direct support to dissidents goes beyond this kind of slacktivism, according to Ben-Horin: "That's sharply raising the ante from the volunteer’s perspective.

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