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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We did very well, and with the Skoll Foundation’s matching support, each gift to our campaign more than doubled its impact. We build our tech-for-good products and reach dollar-by-dollar, and therefore every gift makes a difference for the people we serve. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world?

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The Power of Thank You Letters

Connection Cafe

While I received an email thanking me at that time, their purpose was a simple update on a gift I made about 6 months prior to their Water Forward campaign. passed, my mom responded by giving me the most memorable birthday gift of my life: a box of monogrammed stationary. After a few weeks (months?)

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Making Stories Work for Your Org: What the Data Says

NTEN

In "The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty" , Princeton University professor Peter Singer famously highlights one study in which individuals who were shown a picture of a girl named Rokia and told her story were willing to give far more than when asked to help three million hungry children in Malawi. You'd be wrong.

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