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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ?

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More Groovy Service Acts at Service Nation Summit: Senator Chris Dodd's Semester of Service and Encore Service Act

Have Fun - Do Good

Senator Paul Tsongas, who served in Ethiopia, was the second. The Semester of Service Act would allow high school juniors and seniors to spend more than a third of a semester outside of the classroom serving their community. Dodd served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic from 1966 to 1968, and then joined the U.S.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

The Verge

Webby Special Achievement: Google Classroom. Best Editing : #LifeChangingPlaces – Ethiopia by Kolle Rebbe GmbH; That’s My Jazz by Breakwater Studios. Webby Special Achievement: Miley Cyrus for her Instagram Live show Bright Minded: Live with Miley. Webby Special Achievement: Invisible Hands. Webby Special Achievement: Swab Squad.

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