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Feeding the Hungry in the Land of Plenty

Tech Soup

I'm happy to announce that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Boulder Food Rescue , an organization working to eliminate food waste in its community and across the country. To collect this information, Boulder Food Rescue sends out teams of people to survey local businesses.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

If we focus our work on feeding the hungry, for example, do we actually create a system in which we rely on people needing our services? What would happen, instead, if organizations focused on eliminating hunger?) I see this lesson in the local councils of London trying to open up their data and their leadership.

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Cisco Strengthens Three Square Food Bank's Network

Tech Soup

One of Cisco's less-known good works is its signature Global Hunger Relief Campaign each year. Cisco donation recipient Three Square Food Bank in Las Vegas is a strong ally in this essential hunger relief work. The food bank really needs a modern IT system to organize and execute this hunger relief work. spanhidden.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last winter, after Harry and I had a conversation about global warming (and quite a conversation it was for a then eight-year old), and we collaborated on a series of green videos. This new genre of video games are about solving real world problems such as environment, global hunger, poverty and disease.

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From Ashton Kutcher to Soup: Super Bowl Giving

Have Fun - Do Good

The Souper Bowl of Caring 's mission is to use, "Super Bowl weekend to mobilize youth to fight hunger and poverty in their local communities." The youth at the Farmville Baptist Church in Farmville, VA will be collecting donations after the service for their local food bank, FACES. This year's winner was the Green Bay Packers.

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Meet Connie Reece: Using Social Media to Strike Back At Ike

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last December, I watched Twitter turn into a sea of frozen green peas to support Susan Reynolds in her fight against breast cancer and to raise money for research in her honor. Ultimately, my writing skills led me into professional pursuits where I actually get paid for feeding my addiction. Connie Reece. tools and technology.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's just three people/content connections on this topic that I found from Technorati search: A search on "tags" lead me directly to a YouTube channel from the Youth Health Alliance and a series of youth-created videos on nutrition, including the one above that explains why it is better to drink green tea versus software drinks.

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