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Nonprofits & Gaming: Playing Your Way to More Funds, More Volunteers, and Solving the World's Problems

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57,000 gamers have outperformed supercomputers in the task of folding proteins in new ways that could lead scientists to cures for Alzheimer's, cancer and more. DISNEY PROJECT GREEN: Play games, donate points and help a charity win $100,000. Gamers are already helping tackle real-world problems, just by playing games.

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An easy way to support the Nature Conservancy if you're on Facebook is to install (Lil) Green Patch. October is also breast cancer awareness month, so why not make a donation ? You can find your favorite charity or discover a new one on one of the giving sites like Network for Good or Razoo.

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Balancing People, Profit & Planet: An Interview with Reem Rahim of Numi Tea

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Reem Rahim is the Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing of the Oakland-based green business Numi Tea. So if anybody goes on our web site, Numitea.com , you can see them opening up before your very eyes. Reem: Well, that one that I mentioned, where a man's mom had cancer, and he bought the teas, and she felt much better.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sponsored Tweets or Hashtags is a form of click philanthropy and has been used by nonprofits on their web sites before it was common Facebook and Twitter. . In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. Sponsored Tweets/Hashtags.

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