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#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012

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The campaign will encourage philanthropic activities that support nonprofit organizations. These individuals undertook organizing, fundraising, and advocacy – activities that were once only in the control of nonprofits – outside the “control” of nonprofits.

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Nedspace Co-Working Space in Portland, Oregan will send three Cambodians to college if.

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Cambodia brought me my two beautiful children and I felt strongly that we should give back to the country in some way. She is also an orphan and lived in the same orphanage as my daughter) The problem was I didn't have any idea of how I was going to make a donation of that size after exhausting all my offline networks.

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Birthday Campaign Reflection: Will Your Nonprofit Embrace Free Agent Fundraisers?

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Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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Thank you Teresa Crawford and NpTech Circuit Riders for Helping Us Swim Upstream!

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I'm a longtime member of the Nonprofit Circuit Riders community. Here's a definition: Circuit riders travel throughout regions of the United States and parts of Europe providing technology assistance to nonprofit organizations. Don't know what that means? As one organization providing such services defines the group: ???Circuit

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

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So, I starting worrying about the Internet connection in Cambodia. The very calm Preetamrai , the Southeast Asian Editor for Global Voices who is also attending and leading a workshop at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit told me about his very cool new app from Techsmith, JingProject. Then I noticed that Andrew Parker had just tweeted it.

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ChipIn Over the Holidays

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Did you know that according to the 2005 Kintera/Luth Nonprofit Trend Report : "On average, online givers donate in total (both online and offline) more than 50 percent more than those donors who do not give online." ChipIn allows a group of people to collect money online whether it is for a birthday gift, a party or a fundraiser.

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A Homecoming Trip To Cambodia

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By the time you read this post, I’ll be in Cambodia. For those of you who have been following my blogging since 2004, you know why Cambodia is in my heart! We promised the monk that we would hold Cambodia in our hearts and travel back with our children to their birth country when they were old enough to appreciate it.

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