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Great reads from around the web on March 30th

Amy Sample Ward

Growing Virtual Roots – How our online efforts led to amazing offline results – A great case study in community organizing, on and offline, from Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. "From the nation’s first film festival for nonprofits and cause advocates, is officially accepting entries for the 2011 festival.

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Insurtech startup Spot brings in $17.5M equity, debt to fill insurance gaps for accidental injuries

TechCrunch

with roughly 30 million people without comprehensive healthcare and high medical costs causing many to go into debt. Headquartered in Austin, the company raised $15 million in equity and $2.5 For example, one of the company’s first partners was the Austin Marathon, selling one-time injury policies to the participants.

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Found comes out of stealth with $32M in funding, former Bumble exec as its new CEO

TechCrunch

Austin-based Found was incubated at Atomic , a San Francisco-based venture studio in the spring of 2020. During that process, she was battling Stage 3 breast cancer — doing drafts of the S-1 from a chemo chair and sending it to the board the morning of her double mastectomy.

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Meet Connie Reece: Using Social Media to Strike Back At Ike

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last December, I watched Twitter turn into a sea of frozen green peas to support Susan Reynolds in her fight against breast cancer and to raise money for research in her honor. How did you get first get interested/involved in using social media for social causes? Through Twitter, I became aware of your work with social causes.

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Mo Money for Men's Health through Movember

Connection Cafe

This year in the US, the efforts are benefiting the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG. If you check out some of the facts on the Movember Men’s health page , it becomes pretty clear: 1 in 2 men will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It raised $3,500 in 15 hours. This campaign was a community-generated effort - spearheaded by Connie Reece and came from people who knew of Susan Reynolds fight with breast cancer and rallied behind her. January 2008 As the first place winner in the America's Giving Challenge for Global Causes, I use several twitter strategies.

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Lights. Camera. Help. Nonprofit Film Festival Kicks Off

NTEN

One of our 2009 class of NTENnies, who also happens to be an Austin 501 Tech Club organizer, is at it again: David Neff is organizing another event for media-savvy do-gooders. This festival is the first of its kind in the nation and reflects the spirit of Austin, a prominent city in the non-profit, grassroots and activism communities.

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