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Blackbaud Headed to SXSWi 2011

NetWits

Title: Social Media for Social Good: How Digital Charity is Changing our World. Description: As non-profits turn their sights to the social web for mission delivery, advocacy, fundraising and awareness building, more for-profits organizations are supporting charity work with specialized programs and initiatives. You coming?

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Women’s History Month: 11 Nonprofits That Are Advocating For Female Empowerment

Kindful

Mission: WINS (Women In Need Society) is Calgary’s homegrown thrift charity founded in 1992 to provide basic needs to women in poverty and their families. Kindful Girls On The Run customers include the Michiana, New Jersey East, Northeast Ohio, Bexar County, Central Ohio, Lancaster, and NOVA chapters. Women In Need Society.

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Four Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Reconsider Facebook

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They did skip last year’s holiday party and used the money for charity , launched the tech-centric Facebook Fellowship Program , and offered free advertising to a couple of nonprofits working to end cyberbulling. It is rumored to be run by a white supremacist in Ohio: I e-mailed Facebook asking why the Page has not been deleted.

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Four Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Question Facebook’s Integrity, Longevity, and ROI (Return on Investment)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They did skip last year’s holiday party and used the money for charity , launched the tech-centric Facebook Fellowship Program , and offered free advertising to a couple of nonprofits working to end cyberbulling to get out of launching an “Alert Button&#. Rumors are it is run by a white supremacist in Ohio.

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Nonprofits can become more resilient by spending more on fundraising and admin ? new research

Pamela Grow

Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images Telesilla Kotsi , The Ohio State University and Alfonso J. Having observed how charity watchdogs like Charity Navigator rate nonprofits , our model takes into account that spending more on core programs leads to increased funding for a nonprofit.

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Storymakers Past Winners: In Their Own Words

Tech Soup

Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. " Our first place video for 2012 was by Columbus, Ohio based Dave Thomas Foundation. Storytelling: One of the Most Important Things that Charities Do.

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15 Historical Nonprofit Moments You Should Know

Whole Whale

Were donations to charities always tax-deductible? The United Way was founded by religious leaders in 1887 in Denver, originally called the Charity Organizations Society. The first community foundation was established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914. When was the first volunteer organization created in the U.S.?