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Great reads from around the web on August 24th

Amy Sample Ward

" Direct Energy | Direct Energy Contest | Reduce Your Use for GoodReduce Your Use – "Nonprofits, you know it: small changes can make a big difference. But now, it just may happen — after the coaltion (with a little help from their friends) gave us an impromptu course in how to run online rapid response."

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GivingTuesday 2018 Scales Generosity and Kindness to New Highs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to MarketWatch , the grassroots web-based global movement past $1 billion in total online donations since it was launched seven years ago by the 92nd Street Y in New York City. . People contributed more than $125 million on Facebook , up from $45 million in 2017, using the network’s new fundraising tools. .

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ASPCA Ties 1 Million Facebook Fans To Contest For More - TheNonProfitTimes

AFP Blog

ASPCA Ties 1 Million Facebook Fans To Contest For More - TheNonProfitTimes : The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) hit 1 million Facebook fans on October 3 and is commemorating the milestone with a “We ‘Like’ You, Too!” sweepstakes for all of its supporters.

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4 Things We Learned from #GivingTuesday 2017

NonProfit Hub

Five years ago, at the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact in New York City, #GivingTuesday started as a response to the Black Friday and Cyber Monday crazes that follow Thanksgiving. All the submissions were shared in a public gallery and entrants were encouraged to share their stories more widely to garner votes.

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Member Round Up: It's all good news!

NTEN

Officially nominated games receive two complimentary passes to the 8th Annual Games for Change Festival in New York City. The Knight News Challenge , an international media innovation contest , is accepting submissions to their contest between Feb 27th and March 17th.

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Win 2 Tickets to the Global Fund for Women 20th Anniversary Gala

Have Fun - Do Good

If you are excited about GFW's work, take a moment to enter their raffle for a chance to win two free tickets to their 20th anniversay gala fundraiser in New York City on June 5th. Full disclosure: The Global Fund for Women hired me to help out with the raffle (: women leadership contest

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Max Lin on finishing second in the R Challenge

Kaggle Blog

R , also provided by the contest organizers) achieves noticeable lower AUC of 0.81 (not shown in Figure 1). I use the topics.csv , kindly prepared by the contest organizers, to map a R package to one of the 25 LDA topics (See topic_models.R for details on running LDA, provided by the contest organizer).