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How Donate Now, Pay Later is Transforming Millennial & Gen Z Giving for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It’s never been more expensive to be an American, with certain measures of consumer prices having gone up around 400% over the past 40 years, while real wages have increased only 4% during the same inflation-adjusted interval–that’s not to mention the cost of student loans, housing, and other major purchases. more on average.

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Majora realized that creating green projects and jobs empowers communities to see themselves in a different light, and that beautiful things happen in neighborhoods where people feel invested in their own economic and environmental well being. SB] 2 is but part of Majora’s multi-pronged strategy for urban renewal.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

Associate Professor, ASU School of Community Resources & Development This post is about a bad dog and the role that a class of ASU students is playing in its quest for redemption. Turns out that part of the problem was that many nonprofits didnt understand functional expense accounting or reporting rules. Its an exciting time.

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Senator Hillary Clinton at the Service Nation Summit!

Have Fun - Do Good

As the world becomes more complicated and problems more intractable, we are called to serve." Thad Cochran (R-MS), and Sen.Christopher Dodd (D-CT)) that she is a part of who will be pushing the Serve America Act of 2008. "We 5,000 students would be federally funded for 4 years of school in exchange for 5 years of public service.

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Our Much Improved Tech Support In TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative

Tech Soup

How Green Is RCI? One of their many charitable projects is to be part of the 20 years | 20 ways campaign, a year-long effort by Microsoft to build better careers and better lives for aspiring IT professionals and students around the world. It became a commercial company in 2008. Using the U.S.

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Advice for the College Senior Who Wants to Make a Difference

Have Fun - Do Good

If you are a college student, or someone in career transition, who wants to find work that fulfills your big vision for a better world, I have a few words of advice, and some books to recommend. A Few Book Suggestions: Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , a publication of Echoing Green. My advice: 1. Pick three more actions.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code. Gone Green(er).