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Bitcoin for Nonprofits: Cryptocurrency Fundraising for the Future

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Alex Wilson , Director of BlockShop DC and founding partner of The Giving Block. Some of the most notable donations include $100M+ to Fidelity Charitable, $29M to Donors Choose , $4 million to the Ellen Wildlife Fund , $50M to a dozen universities, and $56M to almost 60 different charities from an anonymous donor.

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Join Us: Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Book Events in Washington, DC

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many thanks to our generous hosts including the Foundation Center/SF, Zero Divide, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, TechSoup Global, and Stanford University. Next week, KD Paine and I will be doing several public events in Washington, DC and online. Please join us! Facebook Ladder of Engagement. Keep them coming.

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So you want a Facebook Fan Page for Your Nonprofit? Here's the Scoop!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages. So is One Campaign and Stanford University. Here's the description.

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5 Top Strategies for Better Member Communications

Get Fully Funded

In fact, people are much more likely to remember a story (63%) than a statistic (5%) according to research from Stanford University. Creating a Facebook group community. Starting a Facebook Challenge . He resides in the DC-Metro area. A few ways you can build a community on social media include: .

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5 Top Strategies for Better Member Communications

Get Fully Funded

In fact, people are much more likely to remember a story (63%) than a statistic (5%) according to research from Stanford University. Creating a Facebook group community. Starting a Facebook Challenge . He resides in the DC-Metro area. A few ways you can build a community on social media include: .

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Facebook Developers Garage

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Last week I attended the Facebook Developers Garage in DC. I'd pictured it as a room with a bunch of developers at tables, laptops open, showing off the ways they'd managed to build useful tools using the Facebook Platform or API. Facebook's rate of growth alone make developers want to be associated with it.

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Can Social Media Save Lives? Guest Post by Porter Gale

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Meanwhile, a team at Stanford University is running a bone marrow event with cheek swabbing for Amit today and next week (@100KCheeks) and helping universities across the country run similar simple events through DoSomething.org. Go ahead, give G+, Facebook or your Tumblr a workout. ’ The goal? And then get a cheek swab.