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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

Have Fun - Do Good

Today, the Los Angeles nanny funds a school in her native Malawi -- where half a million children have been orphaned by the disease." Maria Ruiz "Several times a week, Maria Ruiz of El Paso, Texas, crosses the border into Juarez, Mexico, bringing food, clothing and toys for hundreds of impoverished children and their families."

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From Coast to Coast: How Healthcare Organizations are Handling the Outpouring of Support and In-Kind Gifts

Connection Cafe

After hearing from several of our friends in the community who wish to help, we took action and established the COVID-19 Fund. If you would like to contribute to this fund, 100% of your gift will support the needs of our patients and front-line caregivers. .

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What I Learned From @nancylublin About #dataonpurpose

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In August 2013, they sent an opt-in text message to area codes in El Paso and Chicago. Nancy said that funding closes their organization off from innovation because funders often held them to what they wrote in the grant proposal 2 years ago. “It The first hire was a Data Scientist and CTO. What’s good? What’s impact?

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Crowdsourcing and the nonprofit community

ASU Lodestar Center

Funding, guidance, volunteers, community engagement – all vital resources to sustaining a nonprofit – seem to be in short supply most days. Not enough funding to host that blood drive you’ve been planning? Crowdsourcing draws together volunteers, funding and brainpower from international organizations and individuals.

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