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Information: The Better Half of IT

sgEngage

Raw data—such as customer lists with phone numbers and email addresses—is a valuable resource as-is. What sustenance do I need to satisfy my health goals, hunger, or cravings? This usually means identifying key metrics that you have been using—or want to be using—to measure your organization’s success. How urgently?

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United Nations Sets a New Agenda for Global Philanthropy

Tech Soup

That may be why technology (for example, rapid mobile phone adoption worldwide) may be so important for realizing the new goals. The previous UN Millennium Development Goals addressed eradicating poverty and hunger, combatting diseases, promoting maternal and childhood health, increasing primary education, and sustaining the environment.

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Donation Forms Dissected: Where We’re Winning & Losing in Online Fundraising

Connection Cafe

If you’re requiring things like title, multiple phone numbers, or even a Street Address 3 (which I came across recently), then you’ve definitely got trimming to do. Did you notice that they include language that reads, “Give $500 to join our Hunger Council and help provide 5,000 meals to families facing hunger?”

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Guest Post by Ivan Boothe: Social change takes more than social media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the comments on Joe's blog post was from Texans Against Hunger. The assumption of most twitters above seems to be that these tools work because they're cool OR they've built a career around them, so if you're feeling jaded due to lack of results or encouraging metrics, get over it and get back to your (disappointing) work.

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Kids and Kickstarter: The Rise of PhilanthroKids and Kid Crowdfunding!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is a growing recognition, that personal success is not about solely about making a lot of money, but also giving it to charity as Ariana Huffington points out in Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder.

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Cause Marketing or Cause Me To Puke Marketing? Interview with Scott Henderson

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

2) Can you tell me about the "Pledge to End Hunger" that you recently launched to benefit Share Our Strength? We wanted this campaign to focus on the issue of childhood hunger in America and the fact that many different organizations and people were coming together to take up the cause locally and nationally.

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