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UniversalGiving: Impact, with a little help from friends (SocialActions)

Amy Sample Ward

People simply choose a country of interest (such as China or Thailand) and an area of interest (such as education or the environment) and find a list of vetted opportunities to which they can donate money or give their time. would you rather connect with a group or individual in need half way around the world?

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Imagery and Authenticity

Non Profit Quarterly

And I hadn’t noticed the imagery at first, but when you look at it here you can see, [image] clearly the contrast that they’re creating is around skin tone where Kendra’s opponent has very light skin, rosy skin, “Kodak China Girl skin” as its described, and Kendra’s skin is darkened and she looks very shadowy.

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Interview with Temra Costa, Author of Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat

Have Fun - Do Good

Food for me is something that impacts all of our lives, and it was a place where I could focus the most of my energy and really impact community, environment, health, soil, air, social equity issues, community building, and how we do, or do not interact with each other. The environment didn't look good. What brought you here?

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Leaders in Nonprofit Technology: Daniel Ben-Horin

Tech Soup

I see social enterprise as a kind of benign stopgap — an approach whereby people can contribute to the good of the world, find people of similar mind, and make a living. It is a device to extract social and economic wealth from human waste, while protecting the environment. It was the work of a Kenyan innovator named David Kuria.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

So always keep that in mind. I mean, this is an example that I’ve also faced is right now I work with a lot of organizations in China, for example, and China doesn’t have social media. not interactive, but like more comfortable, a comfortable environment for people to participate? ” Right?

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Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? Hogwash! - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Here are a few of the basic facts to keep in mind when you think about this question: (1) Fundraising online, even according to its most outspoken boosters, accounted for little more than 2 percent of total funds raised by U.S. nonprofits in 2008. 6) Social networking is fun – no doubt about it. My 2 cents.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." The place where we get out bamboo in China, they had floods last year so we started donating 20% of our proceeds back to them so they could rebuild their factories.

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