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Creating Positive Change through Music: Interview with Christina Murray

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Her work has appeared in FundraisingRaising Success magazine, CSAE’s Association Agenda , CharityVillage , and the Wild Apricot nonprofit technology blog. For the last several years, Symphony Nova Scotia has been changing children’s lives with music. Soha: How does the program help build community and give children the gift of music?

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Good Food Revolution: Will Allen of Growing Power

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Folks from every aspect of our society, and every profession are involved in the food system. He is now the CEO of Growing Power , an organization that develops community food systems. In May 2010, TIME magazine named Will to the TIME 100 World's Most Influential People. In 2008, Will was named a John D. and Katherine T.

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Tips for reducing IT costs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

He has a recent article in “ Director Magazine &# which is a UK-based business magazine (no, I don’t read it, I just got the link from his blog,) entitled 10 tips for reducing burgeoning IT costs. Most of the 10 are applicable to nonprofit organizations (I’d skip the “Offshore work&# tip.)

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Blog shout outs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Wireframes Magazine – I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools. Flowing Data – OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek.

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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

BlueAvocado is a new online blog/magazine/website specifically for folks who work in and with nonprofits. It looks interesting, and potentially useful. I wonder how many foundations will go for it, though. I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. It looks very promising.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

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One way to create a major donor program or donor perks system is to replicate one from another organization. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Throw in beer and pizza and music and it can be fun. If you are copying it to the letter, ask permission.

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OpenOffice.org to get a boost

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

that will be published in Linux Identity Magazine. I wrote an article on OpenOffice.org for LASA’s knowledgebase, and I wrote another one on Base specifically (Base is the database component to OOo, new in 2.0, and pretty good, and improving fast.) I hope to start doing OpenOffice.org training soon.