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Is climate change action the new face of natural disaster relief?

Candid

Seeing a problem—like the February earthquake in Turkey and Syria —many will act to mitigate it. For example, Hurricane Katrina, in August of 2005, presented as a once-in-a-generation disaster. But climate change has been a disaster experienced slowly, and now all at once. That is no longer the case.

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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

Bloomerang

This guide is a great place to start to generate ideas for items and packages that will captivate your audience at your next auction event. For instance, a Thanksgiving meal basket could include a coupon for a free turkey, a bottle of wine, charcuterie ingredients, and fancy dinner napkins.

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Getting Insight from Facebook Insight Requires Sense Making Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I know that in order to generate good ideas from network, I need to feed and tune it. By feeding, I’m talking about posting engaging and useful content that resonates. So, that’s my track content against two metrics on in the new FB Insights: Reach and Virality. Look for the Patterns.

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Confessions from a Donor: I Didn’t Donate for 10 Years, but Now I’m a Sustainer.

Connection Cafe

Even though I get my news every morning from the great Morning Editions hosts, Steve Inskeep, Renee Montagne and David Greene and spend my days listening to This American Life, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me and TED Radio hour, it’s never really crossed my mind to donate. Are other generations catching on? LOL to you, too, Mom!).

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand. The Tools, Thoughts and Things one can Do with a little Time and Hardly any Resources blog lengthy post entitled, Village Green vs Walled Garden , talks about the challenges of getting desktop office applications users to switch.

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Cybersecurity: What All Nonprofits Need to Know

The Modern Nonprofit

Since the safest passwords are pretty much impossible to remember, you should automatically generate and store your passwords using a password manager. He has worked in IT leadership roles at multiple nonprofits, including the Mother Child Education Foundation and the Green Thought Association in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Free Rice Game has generated enough rice to feed millions of people since it started in October 2007 or a total of 70,991,387,110 grains of rice as of October 2009. In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy.

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