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Citizen Philanthropy: Delivering Impactful Pro Bono Support From Anywhere

Saleforce Nonprofit

The organization has an impressive range of partnerships — 20 nonprofit partners, and over 250 volunteers delivering impact across five continents — with partners and impact increasing every year. The focus in these projects is on being able to demonstrate real impact, which will be apparent after one week. Adopt A Project.

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. Most of the training days took place in rural Rwanda on Lake Muhazi – which was a beautiful place. The next step was for participants to draw another circle draw another big circle with pictures representing how the world might change for the positive.

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6 Tips for Writing A Winning Crowdfunding Story

The Modern Nonprofit

Do you help feed thousands of people in Rwanda? What impact will you have? Be clear about how your nonprofit will impact others or change the world. Do you have before and after pictures you can share? What problem will you solve? Or perhaps your organization saves exotic animals from becoming extinct.

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But, not just skills training, but learning to understand the impact of connected society and transformation. ” Some big picture thinking: Lucy Bernholz, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, offered her big picture lens. ” We need to better understand how we behave and what we expect in digital, connected age.”

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Nine Digital Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn from charity: water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We want them to share content, we want them to feel really connected to their impact and we want them to represent that to all their friends and family.”. What makes charity: water’s stories so powerful is the use of impactful images and stunning video combined with a very personal, candid style of writing.

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[VIDEO] The Science of Philanthropic Psychology

Bloomerang

Whenever we talk about people love people, we like to put ourselves out of the picture. ” and this is their CEO speaking, “Your great kindness through The Leprosy Mission has always begun protecting children from the impact of leprosy.” We send each other pictures. The first thing is humans being good humans.

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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

Have Fun - Do Good

JG: I had the opportunity to spend some time in Rwanda when I was in college, and what really struck me about that experience was the willingness and openness of the survivors, who are both victims and perpetrators, to heal their country and to move on. When I think rally, I picture a bunch of young kids with torn jeans, not grandmothers.

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