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10 Nonprofits to Support on World Humanitarian Day

EveryAction

Operating under the basic principle of “all people have fundamental human rights,” Amnesty has established a record of winning critical protections for individuals and systemic change affecting millions. Take for instance its work in helping reduce the incidence of Guinea worm disease from an estimated 3.5

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Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

Amy Sample Ward

Organizations that joined Facebook early on endured the “price of early adoption”—they were the guinea pigs for a platform that was still figuring out just what to do with this form of user.

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Worst of Museums for this Decade

Museum 2.0

On social media, it's hard to get into systemic issues effectively, but maybe people did start to touch on some of the big, bad issues in our field. IThe whole system is nauseating. Organizational tokenism: since DEAI is now sexy, decision makers have been hiring diverse employees without a system where we can thrive.

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Crisis Lessons Learned When My Apartment Building Was on Fire

Care2

Sometimes the alarm was tipped by mistake or by inconsiderate and intoxicated visitors, but the system was also just plain unreliable and often went off for no apparent reason. If they are one of my neighbors, they’ll be standing outside trying to console a very stressed, worried, and freaked out guinea pig.)

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

Since 1986, the country has been transitioning from a central-planned economy to a free-market system and trying to move from its dependency on agriculture to industry. It uses a crowd-funding matching system like the famous Kiva.org system. It is also a major exporter of rice. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia.

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

So you want to create a system to know your supporters. That system can be as simple as at board meetings, you all take a few moments, go off Zoom if you’re not meeting in person, and just close your camera down, and everybody has been pre-given to people to call. I love, Stephanie, that you love making calls. Creatively thank.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

After college, after some wanderings and living out in nature doing a lot of backpacking I decided I didn't want to, actually, well, actually let me start, I was a science major in college because I knew that I wanted to study eco-systems and help to preserve them that way. Went through the democractic system, went door-to-door.

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