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Help Hurricane Harvey Victims: Where To Donate #HoustonStrong

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I watched the news reports from Texas and was horrified at the scale of this disaster. I grew up on the Jersey shore where I’ve been evacuated due to storms, but I have never seen this level of disaster. There are many more local nonprofits, focusing on animals, elderly, children, and more. Bayou Animal Services.

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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The top three causes are medical expenses (54%), disaster relief (12%), and education costs (12%). 67% donate in response to natural disasters. ? 103 donors whose top 5 causes are children and youth (23%), hunger and homelessness (15%), women and girls (12%), health and wellness (11%), and education (8%).

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

Instead of saying in the middle of the campaign “we need $X”, they share an interview with one of the beneficiaries, or invite people to connect directly via twitter with children in Tanzania who attend the school funded through the campaign. Have people heard of 350.org org before? Have you heard the number 350 parts per million?

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The Young and Generous: A New Research Report from Network for Good

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

-Online giving is tracking to the trends of online shopping and banking, and it is the avenue of choice for donors during disasters. Most online giving goes to disaster agencies, followed by animal-related causes. Top searches are disaster related, plus ??? Top searches are disaster related, plus ???children,???

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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

Have Fun - Do Good

Over the past week though, there have been little glimpses of happiness amid the disasters, scandals and economic bad news - stories about the CNN Heroes: Ordinary People Extraordinary Impact. Today, the Los Angeles nanny funds a school in her native Malawi -- where half a million children have been orphaned by the disease."

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Breaking down the CARES Act:  How the New Stimulus Bill Could Provide Relief for Social Good Organizations

Connection Cafe

Children and Family Services Programs – $1.9 Runaway and Homeless Youth – $25 Million. International Disaster Assistance – $50 Million. Veterans Administration Homelessness Assistance Grants – $4 Billion. Low-Income Home Energy Assistance – $900 Million. Child Care Development Block Grant – $3.5

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Creating a Movement, Addressing Inequality

Achieve

She saw firsthand the inequalities that existed in the world, including children and families struggling to have food and clothes, the bare essentials we take for granted. She had five children and had to abandon her home and take them to a settlement for disaster victims. A single mother named Chantale led the family.

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