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When props don’t cut it – advocating for your virtual volunteer roles

Twenty Hats

There’s a price tag attached for creating the replicas and mailing the boxes, and it may be sizable. One of my Northern Virginia colleagues, who works a very local organization – a homeless shelter – reported that she has a virtual volunteer from California. There’s more potential to engage the viewer with a live demo.

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The Voter Information Project

Forum One

It's election day in the Commonwealth of Virginia -- the state in which most Forum One staff call home. Many will turn to the internet for the answer and will find themselves at this polling place form on the Virginia State Board of Elections voter information web site. And if you live in Virginia, vote today! Where do I vote?

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CountyHealthRankings.org Gives First County-by-County Snapshot of Health in Each State

Forum One

" The site features interactive, color-coded health outcome maps for each state -- such as this Virginia map -- illustrating the relative health of all of the state's counties. See Virginia's table.) Tags: Influence Press Releases Site Launches. For more information, visit www.forumone.com.

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Volunteer for Mozilla Service Week

NTEN

This year’s theme is “Digital Inclusion” and there will be local service events that you can join! Create your own: Reach out to a local school, organization or people near you to find out what sort of technology help they need. Tags: mozilla mozilla service week NPTech Volunteers. We’ll roll out more in the coming weeks!

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140 Smiles

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's the summary of what they do: Founded in 1982, Operation Smile, headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, is a worldwide children’s medical charity whose network of global volunteers are dedicated to helping improve the health and lives of children and young adults. Tags: twitter. I hope you will send them a little twitter love too.

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Build Communities to Enhance Your Fundraising Campaigns

NTEN

Some that volunteered asked a local restaurant to host and give them a portion of the cover charge or bar sales that night to donate back to CC. Over the past 12 years, Adrienne has raised nearly $20 million for a variety of causes, including at-risk youth, mental health, and higher education in Virginia, New York, and California.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Elizabeth Perry, an artist in Pittsburgh and pioneer of "sketch blogging" reported that local arts organizations have been good at integrating social media without having to create or maintain anything new. Finally the Library of Congress community tagging pilot project on flickr. Read more of Jim Spadaccini's reflections.

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