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Storymakers 2014 Winners — A Global Success

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TechSoup's annual storytelling campaign was created to help nonprofits and social good organizations communicate differently, to build community, and to educate on how to tell powerful and effective stories for a global audience. We were blown away by the global participation in this year's campaign. spanhidden.

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Good News! Starbucks Signed an Agreement with Ethiopia

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Oxfam announced yesterday that Starbucks signed an agreement with Ethiopian farmers: "Starbucks and Ethiopia have finalized an agreement that ends their trademark dispute and brings both sides together in partnership to help Ethiopian farmers. ethiopia starbucks oxfam starbucks holdthehormones Guess what? Pretty cool stuff.

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Measurement Wisdom for Nonprofits from Bill Gates

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“Yet while measurement is critical to making progress in global health, it’s very hard to do well. A decade ago, there was no official record of a child’s birth or death in rural Ethiopia. A recent national survey of Ethiopia’s vaccination coverage reported vastly different results fromthe government’s own estimates.

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Go Holiday Shopping with Your Global Girlfriend

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Global Girlfriend is an online fair trade store that sells handmade gifts made by women's non-profit programs and cooperatives. Global Girlfriend's founder, Stacey Edgar, received a Microsoft Start Something Amazing Awards Honorable Mention , and was named the 2005 Aveeno Woman with Organic Style. holiday shopping fair trade

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events. This new genre of video games are about solving real world problems such as environment, global hunger, poverty and disease.

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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

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What a photo find!! Depending on the community the children come from (and excluding Ethiopia as a separate historical case of Christianity sans missionaries), the children are much more likely to be Christian by the time they are young adults (if they were not already Christian when they entered). in Kenya with Mary, 10, circa 2006].

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As an outside observer, the lessons that I took away from this effort were: Having people change their avatar to a pea photo gave a visual clue to the campaign and helped it spread. January 2008 As the first place winner in the America's Giving Challenge for Global Causes, I use several twitter strategies.