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Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He discovered the Sharing Foundation's project on Global Giving and decided to enter the America's Giving Challenge. Now we have a team of intergenerational wired fundraisers. Over 95% raised goes directly to supporting the children! I am learning so much from Nhuong Son. He quickly found me on LinkedIn, Facebook, and my blog.

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Sequoia, Jay-Z, Will Smith back Landis’ $165M debt, equity round toward making homeownership accessible to everyone

TechCrunch

Homeownership is one of the key components to building intergenerational wealth, and Landis is working to make that a reality for renters. To continue with its mission, Landis raised $165 million in a combination of debt and Series A equity funding. homeownership rates in 2020 were about 65.8% according to Statista.

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Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

The reasons for these discrepancies are deep-rooted, often spanning generations, and are the physical manifestations of lifetimes of abuse and inequality that have been baked into the fabric of America since its inception. The Alliance is built around the three pillars Charlamagne sees as most important: teach, train, treat.

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Daily Crunch: Music fans revisit their year in music with Spotify Wrapped 2022

TechCrunch

Native Americans are the most impoverished group in the US, a vestige of intergenerational, systematic disenfranchisement. India likes smartwatches : That’s right, India has surpassed North America in being the biggest smartwatch market , Ivan writes. Black, white and read all over : Can you believe the Amazon Kindle is 15 years old?

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Apple TV’s Pachinko is an enthralling historical epic

The Verge

Adapted from Min Jin Lee’s bestselling novel of the same name, Apple TV Plus’ most ambitious project yet is a sublime epic that questions cultural identities, national histories, and intergenerational memory and mourning. Solomon Baek, Sunja’s grandson, is well-groomed and America-educated, caught between several identities and cultures.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

We seek to empower our visitors to raise their own civic and creative voices. Putnam and other researchers have collected lots of data demonstrating that in the past 50 years in America, bonding has increased and bridging has decreased. Let’s start with empowerment. We bond with people who are like us. More and more families showed up.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How Long Does It Take for 250 Super Connected Gnomedex Geeks to raise $2,500 for Cambodian kids? America's Giving Challenge: We Came In First! Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader. Working Wikily: The Power of the Newbie.