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Top 10 Tweets From the 2014 Cause Marketing Forum

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Thanks to a partnership with the Public Interest Registry , Heather Mansfield of Nonprofit Tech for Good was able to report live from the Cause Marketing Forum (Storified) last week in Chicago, IL. Social Media Live Reporting' 22 Retweets, 13 Favorites. 17 Retweets, 15 Favorites.

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Causewired Book and O'Reilly Twitter Report Giveaway Winners.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This month I had two different giveaways - a book and report. This post announces the winners: O'Reilly Twitter Report Giveaway: Sarah Milstein was kind enough to send me a report called " Twitter and the Micro-Messaging Revolution. that she co-authored for O'Reilly.

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Will the Sharing Economy Catalyze New Forms of Philanthropy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We’ve witnessed how crowdfunding and micro lending has been a huge trend in the nonprofit sector – think Kiva for micro-lending, GivingTuesday, Give Local America, and the many nonprofit crowd funding platforms. But could cypto currencies, like bitcoin , be used for donations, even major gifts? Share Companies and CSR.

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Great reads from around the web on June 19th

Amy Sample Ward

blog post from the SSIR opinion blog about why Kiva ([link] chose to be a nonprofit and the story of how it started. Fifty-seven percent reported activity in blogging. Find me on Delicious for more! Stanford Social Innovation Review : Articles : The Profit in Nonprofit … - Here is a great (long!)

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Why and How Rituals Build Resilience in the Nonprofit Workplace

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Workplace Flexibility: Whether you have remote staff who work from home or staff that reports to same physical office everyday, flex time can help staff with work/life balance while still maintaining optimum productivity. Kiva, the microfinance organization, gives a monthly 30-minute recess to enjoy unstructured “play time” at the office.

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SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

Tech Soup

Kiva is a San Francisco based crowd-funding microfinance nonprofit that allows just under a million people to make little micro-loans to poor people around the world. Kiva is a classic nonprofit social enterprise that relies mainly on earned revenues rather than grants or donations. I chatted with my old friend, Bennett Grassano.

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A Kiva.org for Native American Entrepreneurs?

Have Fun - Do Good

Census Bureau , the 2007 poverty rate of people who reported they were American Indian and Alaska Native, and no other race, was 25.3%. As far as I know, nothing like it exists, although it could, now that Kiva has opened its API so that developers can build their own tools to fund entrepreneurs. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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