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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Rather than simply saying their Cause was "helping orphans in China," LWB specifically picked 10 children dying of heart disease to offer help. Those funds will help so many orphaned children have the surgeries and other care they need. Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. How did they do it?

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How They Did It: LWB Wins Facebook Causes Giving Challenge - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Rather than simply saying their Cause was "helping orphans in China," LWB specifically picked 10 children dying of heart disease to offer help. Those funds will help so many orphaned children have the surgeries and other care they need. Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. How did they do it?

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5 Steps for Beginners in Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Tech Soup

For example, the Carlisle Family YMCA raised $83,607 to provide scholarships for children in need to participate in its programs by setting a goal and engaging individuals to raise money with personal and team fundraising pages. Is there a celebrity, even a local one who would champion your cause? Find a hero.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

Have Fun - Do Good

I just came from a meeting where I was told that the women we are servicing in Southern Sudan are earning double the per capita income in that country. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20

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Tools to End Poverty: An Interview with Martin Fisher of KickStart

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In Tanzania, only something like 3.5%; in Sudan, it's only about 1.5%, and even in India, which we think of as being more developed, it's only about 10% of the people who actually have a job in the formal private sector. I ended up working for a large nonprofit called Action Aid, very similar to Save the Children. I did other things.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

The Verge

The annual awards show celebrates the wide variety of things that happen online, from websites and podcasts to design and data visualizations to video series and social media accounts, and they tend to touch on a big swath of what happened in the preceding year. Best Visual Design – Aesthetic : Sky: Children of the Light by thatgamecompany.

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Building the World You Want: 6 Nonprofit Campaigns to Consider on International Day of Charity

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Consider this fact: unless the world tackles inequity today, 167 million children will live in extreme poverty by 2030. Since its launch in April, the campaign has partnered with notable sponsors, celebrities, and community leaders to change lives and ensure families have access to decent housing. Enter, International Day of Charity.

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