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Measurement Wisdom for Nonprofits from Bill Gates

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Gates is talking about how an NGO’s internal culture needs to be open to learning what isn’t working as well well as what is working. This gets at one of the areas of measurement that interests me the most – the intersection between measurement discipline and organizational culture. Simple, but hard to accomplish.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Connecting with Millennials (Mike Del Ponte, Soma)

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I wish that little voice had told me about money! Went to Ethiopia with Charity:Water to understand water issues and what NGOs are doing. Can you talk to leaders out there about how to infuse workplace cultures with meaning so Millennials will come work for them? Wasn''t necessarily true, but that''s what he heard. "I

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. In fact, the campaign went over goal and we able to raise enough money to send another young person to college.

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Encouraging Philanthropy at a Young Age: Teaching Your Kids To Give To Causes

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Whether I'm raising money for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I try to include them in some way. Notes Sophie in the recent Sharing Foundation newsletter, "Not many people in Cambodia are as lucky as we are, so I decided I just wanted to help give them money to buy food and water, because I was from the country."

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My Facebook Birthday Cause: Thank You (and Some Unsolicited Feedback To Causes)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Whether you want to raise money for clean water in Ethiopia, vaccinations for children in Haiti, or a safe home for a puppy in Mississipi, with a Birthday Cause your friends can give in honor of your special day. I think this is application might just be a winner: It meshes with Facebook culture.

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Buy a Song, Support a Cause

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Profits from the record raised money for famine relief in Ethiopia. It also raised money for famine relief in Africa. raises money for Amnesty's Darfur work. Dark Was The Night will be released on February 17th to raise money for Red Hot , an organization, "dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture."

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