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Crowdsourcing Events: The Citizen Gulf Project

NTEN

At the time, the most impressive thing about the concert was not how much money was raised, or how many musicians were involved, but how global it was. Concerts took place mainly in the UK and the US, but also in Australia, Japan, France, and a half a dozen other places around the world. You can attend OR HOLD an event of your own.

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TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile: Nonprofits Back to School — In Brazil

Tech Soup

The Luciano Barreto Júnior Institute in Aracaju, Brazil provides educational opportunities to low-income kids in the agricultural Brazilian state of Sergipe, the home of Brazil’s far-famed Forro music. She grew up in Central America, studied in France, and is a graduate of San Francisco State University.

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TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile: Nonprofits Back to School — In Brazil

Tech Soup

The Luciano Barreto Júnior Institute in Aracaju, Brazil provides educational opportunities to low-income kids in the agricultural Brazilian state of Sergipe, the home of Brazil’s far-famed Forro music. She grew up in Central America, studied in France, and is a graduate of San Francisco State University.

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5 Steps to Content Marketing Success for Arts and Cultural Nonprofits

Connection Cafe

Your zoo visitors who come to see the penguins are going to be much less interested in content you create about “The Struggles of Life on the Savannah” than they are about content about “How Global Warming is Impacting our Polar Ecosystems.” Do more people come for musicals than tragedies? Create Content.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Maureen O'Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum. This was my first return visit to France since studying abroad in Montpellier twelve years ago. Robine was born and raised in France but has spent significant time in the US, thus making her a perfect bridge for European clients establishing business in the US.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Maureen O''Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum I recently had the opportunity to travel to Paris, France to attend the 5ème conférence de fundraising pour le secteur culturel (5th conference on fundraising for the cultural sector) put on by the Association Française des Fundraisers (French Association of Fundraisers).

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A Little Bit of Gloom Between Two Slices of Hope: Diet for a Hot Planet Author, Anna Lappe

Have Fun - Do Good

After reading each of her books: Hope's Edge (that she co-authored with her mother, Frances Moore Lappé), Grub (that she co-authored with Bryant Terry), and now her new book, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It , I've felt hopeful and energized. Not Anna Lappé's books.