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Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? Hogwash! - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

To the best of my knowledge, not a single nonprofit organization has yet raised more than $200,000 through social networking – cumulatively. Yes, NGOs can and should be raising more $ online (and here in Greenpeace China we are doing just that) but I have yet to see strong data that supports us shutting off the DM facet just yet.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. Panelists include: Susan Pointer, Google’s Director of Public Policy & Government Relations. The access to information drives knowledge. Today, a China official said the internet is a new battlefield without gun powder.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

Whether the tasks power autonomous weapons systems raining disaster down on slum districts or else power geographic data for humanitarian agencies that provide aid to such disaster zones is knowledge not available to the workers. Google’s use of microwork for a US Department of Defense initiative, Project Maven, is a case in point.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." My path was really environmental work, environmental policy work. When you don't know, you want to know, and you become like a sponge of knowledge.

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