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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And while video games like Zoo Tycoon or online games can teach them all sorts of skills that will need to be successful adults (and this has been validated recently by a MacArthur Foundation funded study ,) I was excited to discover this wonderful list of games for change. They created the Popcorn For Kids Campaign.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the holidays, she has hosted a kindergarten "angel" party where the kids were "angel donors" for families in need, depositing their unwrapped toys and gifts as admittance to the fun. We also had a Christmas tradition where instead of giving each other gifts, we sponsored a family and bought them presents instead.

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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. We do this in in urban settings in Asia and Africa, where children live at the intersection of two streets: (1) worst water quality conditions and (2) greatest degrees of poverty.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Someone remarked that we have invited the “Flower Mic” Finally, each participants receives a certificate, books from a colleague, and a gift of chocolate from San Francisco! This is the holy grail of a peer learning group – one that builds it knowledge and share it and is not reliant on the “expert.”

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

They give you the gifts that keep on giving. So I’m going to teach you what works so you don’t have to make the mistakes that I did. Paul to teach them a bit about what goes on in Ethiopia, or Uganda, or wherever their camps are. I want to make sure my year-end gift is enough.” Steven: Yes.

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