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DonorsChoose Interview & Social Media Challenge

Amy Sample Ward

My collaborator, JD Lasica , at SocialBrite has just posted the interview and details below. DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Last year, bloggers big and small raised $270,000 to provide 65,000 students with the resources needed to learn. Interview with founder Charles Best. The cool part?

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Interview: Avi Kaplan, Epic Change for TweetsGiving

Amy Sample Ward

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Find out more in the interview below! Tags: events interview africa epic change fundraising philanthropy tweetsgiving twitter.

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Interview: Avi Kaplan, Epic Change for TweetsGiving

Amy Sample Ward

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Find out more in the interview below! Tags: events interview africa epic change fundraising philanthropy tweetsgiving twitter.

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Hey Nonprofits: Here Comes Gen Z Donors

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And last year, when I interviewed Barb Newhouse, President & Chief Executive Officer ALS Association and discuss the Ice Bucket Challenge, she mentioned they acquired many new “Gen Z” donors. But it is more than the technology, it is also their passion to do good in the world. The Giving 2.0

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Based on that message, at the following 30th TED conference in Vancouver, Canada, I delivered an onstage exhortation to fellow technologists to secure their customers’ sensitive information in response to Edward Snowden’s surprise virtual TED interview. And we do this at a per-book cost less than one-tenth of the traditional approaches!

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An Interview with Jessica Rauch about The Generation Project: Passionate about Teaching Young People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since I was a first year college student at UC Berkeley, I have been working with students and schools in low-income communities and have grown increasingly aware of how educational disparities keep children from reaching their potential. That lead me to Jennifer Rauch, the co-founder of The Generation Project.

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Future of Social: Gen Z

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you want to learn more about what I’ll be talking about, read this interview in the Guardian. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. Gen Z By The Numbers. They are not content to just sit and click.

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