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Hold a BLOCKBUSTER Virtual Event Like The Dougy Center

Greater Giving

As a result, The Dougy Center—a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon that helps children dealing with grief and loss—raised enough money to support their programs for another year, and saw participation from donors around the US, North America, and across the globe.

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30 Hour Day: Livestreaming for Fundraising

Amy Sample Ward

Livestream for 30 hours straight in an effort to raise money for charities like Free Geek, Oregon Food Bank, and Toys for Tots. Yes these are Portlanders, hoping to fundraise to support local organizations in Oregon (USA), but they are hoping it helps you fundraise wherever you are, too! The concept?

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Interview with NTEN's Community Program Coordinator

NTEN

I got involved with Oregon’s 501 Tech Club/Net2 Local Group PDXTech4Good shortly after I moved to Portland. Of course I cared about nptech, but I was new to town and wanted a way to find my place in the local community. This was a neat event where we attempted to raise money for local organizers which use tech in neat ways.

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NTEN and National Volunteer Week

NTEN

Inspired by National Volunteer Week, NTEN took a few hours of work time to volunteer in our local communities. The sale raised over $200,000 for San Francisco libraries, and the leftover boxes of books made a new home at a local thrift shop in a rural area of Eugene, Oregon, that has limited access to library and book services.

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Spring Is Here! Get Outside and Meet Your NPTech Community

Tech Soup

Research Triangle, North Carolina: How to Create Digital Stories to Raise Money and More. Raleigh, North Carolina: Storymakers 2016 — How to Create Digital Stories to Raise Money and More. Portland, Maine: Portland: QuickBooks Made Easy. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members.

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10 Amazing Environmental Nonprofits You Need to Know About

Tech Soup

Boulder Food Rescue works with local businesses to collect surplus food that would usually be thrown away and distribute that food to people who need it. The organization has raised well over a million dollars to care for hundreds of orphaned and displaced orangutans living in care centers in Borneo and Sumatra. Here are the top 10.

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Gift the Gift of Charity: Make A Contribution to any of these Fabulous Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He recommends the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network , works with local rape crisis centers nationwide. FreeGeek in Portland solves two problems. This began to change with the establishment in 2002 of the Spastic Paraplegia Foundation (SPF) whose all-volunteer effort raised over $1.5

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