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Will the Sharing Economy Catalyze New Forms of Philanthropy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now that we’ve had some time to reflect, I am wondering about how the Sharing Economy will catalyze new forms of philanthropy and CSR? Data Philanthropy. How do you see the sharing economy disrupting corporate philanthropy and giving in general? I first heard this term about year ago and wrote it about here.

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TripAdvisor Combines Philanthropy And Marketing By Letting Reviewers Give A Free $25 Kiva Microloan | TechCrunch

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TripAdvisor Combines Philanthropy And Marketing By Letting Reviewers Give A Free $25 Kiva Microloan | TechCrunch : TripAdvisor is demonstrating what Shah calls a “a very big trend”. In March 2012, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman put up $1 million to let other people try Kiva.

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Philanthropy University Offers Amazing (Free!) Online Courses

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There are seven free online courses available starting in mid-September by people like Paul Brest, former head of the Hewlett Foundation and a faculty co-director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. All of the Philanthropy University courses are free and available anywhere in the world.

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Implementing Lean Startup in Mission-Driven Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The webinar earlier this week from the Lean Start up team, Lean Impact: Implementing Lean Startup in Mission-Driven Organizations, did begin to address this gap with a discussion and examples from Akash Trivedi of Kiva Zip, a pilot program from the nonprofit Kiva and Christie George from New Media Ventures.

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The Power of Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And Kiva ([link] builds on already existing networks (including that network of networks we call the Internet) to give people the opportunity to loan money to entrepreneurs in the developing world. As philanthropy takes up ‘network thinking’ as its next frontier, there is the danger that we’ll get too caught up in the technicalities.

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Charity Seeks to Move Beyond Making Loans to Entrepreneurs - Technology - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

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Charity Seeks to Move Beyond Making Loans to Entrepreneurs - Technology - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: "Kiva first made its mark by allowing people to make online loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries, but the organization has ambitious plans to move beyond its initial mission.The (..)

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A Couple of Do Good iPhone Apps

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the more exciting iPhone apps to appear in the last month or so is CauseWorld that uses a new form of "embedded" giving that I dubbed " Foot Traffic Philanthropy." You'll find reviews of iPhone apps from the Olympics , National Center for Missing Children , the San Jose Museum , and others. American Cancer Society More Birthdays App.