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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

Get Fully Funded

It’s one of the most iconic photos in history, and it’s that way for a reason. If it’s a captioned/narrated video, the background music is very important. Just as in movie scores, the music can set the tone and enforce the message. A note about music: Do not use licensed music without permission.

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Keeping the Rich History of Virginia Preserved and Secure

Tech Soup

The museum and library preserves the rich history of the Northern Neck through its collections, exhibits, tours, and educational programs. Celebrating a Region Rich with History. New stories surface, like arrowheads long buried, providing constant shifting of information that gives vitality to history."

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We see this with a much greater ability to lower prices, to offer all you can read subscription pricing plans, to choose to license content freely, to publish open access articles, and so on. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together. Turns out that Chris’ mom was the acting CEO of a new software company, “Napster.”

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How Companies Succeed By Engaging Radically With Society

Eric Jacobsen Blog

John Browne Question: What does history tell us about the mistakes that companies make? John Browne : When it comes to the history of corporate misbehavior, today’s scandals are merely tired reruns of ancient errors. Tommy Stadlen : History tells us that long-term success is only possible when companies connect with society.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It has a very long history, though, since it is based on Borland’s InterBase codebase. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. Firebird – this is a newer kid on the block, sort of.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It has a very long history, though, since it is based on Borland’s InterBase codebase. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. Firebird – this is a newer kid on the block, sort of.

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

Have Fun - Do Good

Just from my understanding of history and my understanding of politics, the best way of actually being able to improve the living conditions of low income, oppressed people is for those people to come together and take their destinies into their own hands. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5

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