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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

Bloomerang

Your corporate partners get more positive publicity for their businesses, while your nonprofit receives valuable auction packages for your event. Search for experiences in countries known for their cuisine, like Italy, France, China, and Mexico. It’s a win-win relationship!

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

The project is soft launching this month, and going public in March 2014. This actually sounds too good to be true. " It is intended to be a dynamic public database of tech innovators for good around the world. TechSoup Technologies for Good. Hacker Helper. Currently it is available only in the U.S., See the map here.

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Tech Across Your Org: Program and Fundraising Innovation Sprung from an Internal Technology Project

NTEN

In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily. And so—even though it sounded a bit over-the-top to observers around us—we went looking for a developer with a sense of adventure and a proven track record for follow-through.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

Have Fun - Do Good

We love people that look for fair trade for the farmers overseas, and supporting a bamboo village in China. The public safety issue is huge. We don't really have a mentorship model, but how do you find someone who can be a sounding board to you? There are a lot of companies that give to international causes, which is great.

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2014 NTC Report: The Wins, The Fails, The Ideas for 2015

NTEN

In the last month, NTEN staff have rested and recuperated (Jessica even traveled to China!), It is inevitable that we say something that sounds a bit too "had to be there", or includes components to the agenda that aren''t fully explained to a new attendee. and debriefed a whole lot of the NTC. We don''t always succeed.

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Interview with Carol Baroudi, Author of Green IT For Dummies

Tech Soup

publication, Green IT For Dummies. For example, their Serious Good initiative enables the donation of sound, working computers to charitable organizations like Habitat For Humanity. The demand for electronics in emerging markets will put a higher demand on rare earth minerals, which are currently mined mostly in China.

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Leaders in Nonprofit Technology: Daniel Ben-Horin

Tech Soup

among many other publications. I know that may sound very ‘soft’ as political analysis goes, and I also know that no amount of niceness "fixes" Syria or Ukraine or human trafficking or global warming. By then he had moved to the Bay Area. Having read Kurkov, the recent events have more depth and resonance.