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Guest Post on Tactical Philanthropy: Causes, MySpace and ideablob

Amy Sample Ward

There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. I can’t speak for others working in the “innovation sector,&# but at NetSquared we can’t emphasize enough that our Community is what drives us – whether’s it’s online or offline.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

Helping the women receiving the funds. Instead of saying in the middle of the campaign “we need $X”, they share an interview with one of the beneficiaries, or invite people to connect directly via twitter with children in Tanzania who attend the school funded through the campaign. What is it about? And that’s hard to ignore.

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Women Helping Women: My First Giving Circle

Have Fun - Do Good

What I didn't realize about Dining for Women, is that they research and choose the organization that will be receiving the funds from that month's gatherings so that all of the Dining for Women groups meeting across the country are donating to the same thing. This month's organization was the Village Enterprise Fund.

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Nonprofit Technology News for September 2013

Tech Soup

The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. ” Also have a look at our webinar recording and other resources: The Wisdom of the Crowd(funding). Find the Teespring discount offer on TechSoup.org.

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Happy Tweetsgiving!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year they hope to spread gratitude further and raise enough to help build an additional classroom, orphanage/boarding facility, cafeteria and library at Epic Change’s partner school in Tanzania, and to finding and funding future Epic Fellows like the school’s founder, Mama Lucy. Be sure to check out the Twitterkids.