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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

Have Fun - Do Good

Her nonprofit St. 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." Liz McCartney "Dedicated to helping Hurricane Katrina survivors in St.

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The Most Generous Online Giving Cities in the U.S.

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We also applied some additional statistical rigor used in The Blackbaud Index , which has become a trusted and valued source of nonprofit fundraising information since its launch four years ago. For the 2013 edition, we made the decision to significantly expand the amount of data in the analysis. million to more than $8.3 million. .

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

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Texas (U niversity M edical C enter (UMC) El Paso) : Thank you for stepping up and investing in our community’s health. We are all in this together , and we will get through it because we are El Paso Strong. .

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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

Connection Cafe

We were surprised when we reached a roadblock just West of El Paso. I was also surprised that El Paso, TX is only the half-way point between LA and Austin. There are also many ongoing conversations under #nptweet focused on nonprofits and technology. Not knowing what we’d find over the horizon.

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What I Learned From @nancylublin About #dataonpurpose

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She shared that Bob likes to talk about nonprofit data scientists as being dot organisms. Just like your brain, you have nerves everywhere that tell you to take voluntary actions like “raise your arm.” Great data in a nonprofit will work the same way – you won’t even be conscious of it. Or involuntary actions, like breathing.

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Crowdsourcing and the nonprofit community

ASU Lodestar Center

As anyone who works at a nonprofit organization can tell you, surplus is a luxury most NPOs rarely enjoy. Funding, guidance, volunteers, community engagement – all vital resources to sustaining a nonprofit – seem to be in short supply most days. How can crowdsourcing help my nonprofit organization in Arizona? Like this article?

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