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Nonprofits and Pinterest: Nonprofit Blog Carnival Round-up

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. ~ Pinterest: One Nonprofit's Story , Susan's Site • Marc van Gurp highlighted the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in Israel's "Pinsulin" campaign. Pinsulin: repin for those who pin 12 times a day , osocio • Christine Sculati created four Pinterest Boards to raise awareness about the California State Parks crisis. ~

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What is your “Individual Social Responsibility (ISR)?

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He lives very simply, preferring to invest the money he makes from consulting to support technology and social change projects in the rural area that he now calls home. He has helped developed a technology and library center in the rural school in his village and is implementing a program that is teaching kids ICT skills. Others may donate.

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Reflections from Mashable Summer of Social Good Conference

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This was the culmination of the summer long initiative to help raise money for four charities, Humane Society of the United States , World Wildlife Fund , Oxfam , and LIVESTRONG. This was the culmination of the summer long initiative to help raise money.

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Social Notworking and Other Social Networking Challenges

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

About two months, again I used to illustrate this post when I read Shel Israel's post " Is Facebook starting to fade? Giving 3 million people a platform to discuss something they're passionate about and raise awareness -- whether or not it leads to money donated -- points to Facebook's potential as a powerful social tool.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

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Geoff Livingston invited me to keynote the conference along with Shel Israel , author of Twitterville. I had never met George face-to-face, but through Twitter he made a donation that helped me sponsor the Cambodia Bloggers Summit and raise some money for the Sharing Foundation. This is just a sampling. Google social search.

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Is A Downer News Cycle A Factor in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Success?

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But according to news reports , it has increased awareness and dollars raised for ALS research. I’ve seen colleagues take the challenge with their children, like my colleagues Lisa Colton and Marc Pitman both of whom have a family member who suffered from ALS. The association reports $15.6

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

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In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. They also ask that you donate some money. . Here's an example of a campaign to raise money on TwitCause for honeybee research. . to send a sick child to Disneyland.

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