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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place :: 2011 Edition

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a group or as an individual, CARE Packages can help send girls in Afghanistan to school for a year, or help expectant mothers in Peru safely deliver. You can purchase Kiva Cards which then can be redeemed by your gift recipient to fund a loan of his or her choosing. Kiva Cards: Starting a $25, Kiva Cards change lives.

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How can nonprofits adopt social enterprise strategies to create sustainable revenue streams?

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Organizations that rely on donations and grants for funding are being forced to look at their revenue portfolios and determine whether their revenue streams will be sustainable in the foreseeable future. Nonprofits are reimagining funding models and will have to think innovatively to ensure their mission continues. foreign policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My first introduction to her book was from Lucy Bernholz and shortly after that James Wu from the Acumen Fund gave me a copy of and this profile in the Economist. The winner was Lethal Sheethal who was about to leave for six months on her Kiva Fellowship in Peru. Before leaving, she did a fundraiser and raffled off her copy of the book.

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GOOD Magazine

Have Fun - Do Good

While on the plane to and from Peru I had A LOT of time to read. It's $20 and 100% goes to the charity of your choice: Ashoka, City Year, Creative Commons, Donors Choose, GenerationEngage, Millennium Promise, Oceana, Room to Read, Teach for America, WITNESS, World Wildlife Fund or UNICEF. I chose UNICEF. Good Magazine magazine

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education. We are also planning a trip to Peru! The more people who know about Traveling Postcards the better! Please add your voice to the conversation. Tell us what you are doing to make positive change in your community.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

We are also in discussions in Peru, in Burkina Faso, and in Botswana as well. It is great when people know that their money is going directly to the journalists, directly funding somebody's life and somebody's well being. We don't take government or corporate dollars for any of our funding through grants, or anything else.

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Tools to End Poverty: An Interview with Martin Fisher of KickStart

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So, what we do is we use donor funds to overcome this market failure. So, what we use our funds for is precisely to do market development. This is what we use our donor funds for, and this is by far the hardest job. This is our strategy and our plan, and we use donor funds to do that. You're not going to Peru."