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10 Common Misconceptions Nonprofits Have About Bitcoin Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It cannot be arbitrarily printed/devalued like what happened in Venezuela. Myth 8: Mining cryptocurrency is bad for the environment. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency mining are mostly powered by renewable energy in remote places where the energy wouldn’t be used for anything else. Myth 4: Nothing makes Bitcoin valuable, right?

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

Have Fun - Do Good

Almost never do they receive healthcare benefits or vacation time and oftentimes, have to work in incredibly oppressive environments. Steve Williams: I think for me one of the things that motivates me is the idea that the world can be a better place. Britt Bravo: What brought you to this work.

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Senators Urged To Protect NGOs Via Systems, Staffing, Sanctions

The NonProfit Times

The key point is that in places where the pro-democracy movements are strong and America’s well-established partnerships are challenged by actors like Russia, as in Georgia, maintaining a high level of support in backing democratic aspirations of nations can tip the balance in Georgia.” The issues are far from isolated.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Millennial Giving (Alia McKee, Sea Change Strategies and Justin Wheeler, LINK)

NTEN

After graduating college, I became a translater for tobacco giant Philip Morris in Venezuela. As an example, an experiment was done to increase hotel towel reuse through changing messages: the traditional ''this many gallons are used to wash towels, please reuse your towel to help us save the environment '' was used as the control message.

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Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange Talks about the Global Citizen Center

Have Fun - Do Good

When we buy it from you, you might want to keep ten or 20 or 30 percent of the ownership, and you are going to profit from that because we are going to make this place rock." That's guaranteed, and what's guaranteeing it is, it is one of the few positive things about the destruction of the environment. And they get that.

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