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Non-Traditional Giving Days for Your Next Fundraiser

The Modern Nonprofit

to plan a monthlong peer-to-peer fundraising campaign: February = Black History Month, American Heart Month, Oral Hygiene Awareness Month, Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, Eating Disorder Awareness Month. July = National Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness & Prevention Month, National Black Family Month.

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Teaching Online Safety: Building Curriculum

Tech Soup

The Northstar Digital Literacy Project has 33 questions, but only a few touch on safety and security. Stay Safe Online by National Cyber Security Alliance is a wealth of resources. has a special page dedicated to online safety for kids and teens. is a great resource by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

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Tips for Libraries Providing Health Information Training

Tech Soup

Dana Abbey is the Health Information Literacy Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental region. Thinking about providing health information training for your community? Here's advice from a pro! She has a background in public libraries, library consultation, and prescription drug monitoring.

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5 Ways Libraries Support Disaster Relief and Recovery

Tech Soup

The school system had one of the worst high school dropout rates in the nation and a high level of crime per capita. She saw a tremendous need for literacy and outreach services, particularly to the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, where the aftereffects of Katrina were the most devastating. Libraries as Evacuee Resource Centers.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

Tech Soup

million people through national media outreach, including an appearance on "Good Morning America." New Heights Educational Group is an educational support and literacy center for families with children who are struggling in school. The organization's project on Last Polar Bear reached 26.5

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. He also identifies the new literacies and skills -- and while he is talking about this in the context of children and education. Go read it.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

Last month, I gave the closing keynote at the National Digital Forum in New Zealand. I worked on one project in which the client institution thought they wanted unfettered teen expression. In the end, this generated a substandard product for the client, and disappointment for the teens.

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