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Nepal Earthquake Roundup: Emergency Fundraising Attention Cycle

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Nancy Schwartz has an fantastic blog post offering expert advice on how nonprofits should communicate during a crisis, using the situation in Baltimore and the Nepal Earthquake as hooks to offer some recommendations. The CDP Nepal Earthquake Recovery Fund focuses on medium- and long-term rebuilding and recovery.

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Posts from the Skoll World Forum

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One of the major themes of working with the Skoll Foundation is the focus on stories. That's what Jeff does with Participant Productions, and a big piece of the Foundation's efforts are around helping us tell stories. Here are 50 from the Skoll World Forum, Oxford 2006 - a photoset on Flickr. and more.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. Many of our trainees and journalists in Nepal do have children. BB: So right now you work in Nepal and in Mexico? CH: Yes, we do.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Connecting with Millennials (Mike Del Ponte, Soma)

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Buck Foundation – "Once you get accepted, as long as you''re in school, they pay for your entire life. I did microfinance consulting in Nepal. Went to Ethiopia with Charity:Water to understand water issues and what NGOs are doing. I was devastated and depressed." Ripped it open. Food, rent, books, study abroad, plane tickets.

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[PODCAST] Broaden Your Message With Influencer-Driven Campaigns | Ft. Jeanette Russell

NonProfit Hub

So what’s happening with digital and engagement in general and why so many of these engagement trends are decreasing is because there is so much noise out there and so sending the right message and the right time, that’s the foundation of marketing but it’s even more critical with all of the noise and competition out there.

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The Journey of the Spiritual Activist: An Interview with Marisa Handler

Have Fun - Do Good

Your way may be starting an organic catering company, or painting about issues that are important to you, or getting out on the streets and protesting, or maybe working with policy; there are all kinds of different work. It's been a foundation to begin with, and to return to. MH: It's been really crucial for me.

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Meet Donna Callejon, Chief Operating Officer of Global Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Do you have a foundation background? Before GlobalGiving I spent a few years helping to build the Washington Area Women's Foundation - and that's when I started becoming a "student' of philanthropy. Tell me about you - how did you end up working in global philanthropy? I am a corporate refugee.

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