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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place :: 2011 Edition

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a group or as an individual, CARE Packages can help send girls in Afghanistan to school for a year, or help expectant mothers in Peru safely deliver. CARE Packages: CARE has a very unique holiday gift program that allows you to compile care packages to send to women entrepreneurs and girls worldwide. Although Concern is based in the U.K.,

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50 Nonprofits Every U.S. Politican Should Follow on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans :: @ CIAV. Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA) :: @NationalCASA. Feeding America :: @ FeedingAmerica. Coalition to Stop Gun Violence :: @ CSGV. Crisis Group :: @ CrisisGroup. DoSomething.org :: @ DoSomething. Education Week :: @ EducationWeek.

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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

If we focus our work on feeding the hungry, for example, do we actually create a system in which we rely on people needing our services? I have talked many times before about the way we as nonprofit organizations and changemakers set our goals. (If What would happen, instead, if organizations focused on eliminating hunger?)

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Guest post by Brian Reich: GamesThatGive - You Play. We Donate. Charities Win.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2007, the popular Free Rice online game used quiz-style vocabulary building game that rewarded correct answers with ten grains per bowl to feed hungry children. Jumpstart for Young Children. Feeding America. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association. The Wilderness Society. Ronald McDonald House Charities.

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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

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5 ways to ensure your storytelling meets these criteria: Feeding America has done a great job guiding its network of food banks to move toward ethical storytelling and strength-based messaging in responsible and compelling ways. Example: Sam came home from Afghanistan with PTSD that threatened his family, his job, and even his life.

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Research Friday: Attention Philanthropy: The Good, the Bad, and the Road Ahead

ASU Lodestar Center

It quickly leads to a domino effect: college kids walk around campus without shoes to show their support for the campaign; celebrities endorse this cause and plug it on their TalkShoes, Twitter feeds, or Facebook pages. Since TOMS launched in 2006, over 1,000,000 pairs of shoes have been given to children in more than 20 countries.

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Must Hear Speech from Barack Obama and the Power of Podcasting

Have Fun - Do Good

There is something powerful about hearing Barack Obama's voice or the children's voices from the UNICEF podcasts or Nelson Mandela's voice from the recent ONE campaign podcast , inside your head. Already we are getting reports that the situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating. It is about the world in which our children will live.

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