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Level Up and Change the World: Gamification Apps

Tech Soup

One of the biggest trends in mobile giving right now is gamification: the integration of game dynamics, like points, badges, or levels, into a fundraising or social good campaign. Created by local NYC students, this game is designed to be played in and around city libraries and teaches players how to use library resources.

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How Will Your Nonprofit Raise Money in 2012?

NTEN

Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Platforms like Genius Rocket and NetSquared provide nonprofits an opportunity to crowd-source a communications or technological need. In this medium, openness, responsiveness, and inquisitiveness serve your cause well.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. Photography students use Flickr to post, organize, share, and critique their colleagues?????? and the trends driving it. Netsquared Conference Mashup Panel.

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

Have Fun - Do Good

That same trend can be seen in all kinds of industries, particularly in food. Students, people in churches, people in environmental groups who have embraced Fair Trade as a positive model of change. We've seen students, for example, take on the project of getting Fair Trade coffee into their dining halls.