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Kids and Kickstarter: The Rise of PhilanthroKids and Kid Crowdfunding!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. ” These are teens (and pre-teens) with a passion for social change and who grew up not knowing what it was like to not to have a cell phone or be connected to Facebook. .” Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1

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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Also, data from the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report reveals that 45% of online donors worldwide are enrolled in a monthly giving program. According to the Global Trends in Giving Report , 33% of donors worldwide give tribute gifts. A matching gift strategy could also be applied to local nonprofits on a smaller scale.

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TechSoup Global: Springing into Action

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global has had a busy year so far with new ventures, exciting contests, and global recognition. That's why TechSoup Global, NetSquared and Microsoft teamed up to launch the Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest last November. Our global partners are also taking part in digital storytelling. Initiative.

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12 companies with online solutions for big offline problems

The Next Web

Lane Sutton , Social Media from a Teen. Skillshare makes it easy to find or teach classes that are of interest to you in your local area. Zaarly’s local “action” marketplace is a perfect example of a web app/technology leveraging the real world to create value. Technology for Global Good.

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Meet 15 companies that are turning ads and marketing into cultural moments

Fast Company Tech

Airbnb managed to create a product extension through its own cultural intermingling, and now its Icons platform allows guests to book stays in IRL pop-cultural locales. Liquid Death For giving the brand collab new life In a scene straight from the 90s, two girls fawn over a heartthrob in a teen magazine.

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Leverage Edu raises $6.5 million to help Indian students land in top colleges abroad

TechCrunch

You get everything from flight tickets to local phone numbers, to education loan in one place,” he said. “We We believe it is inevitable that the next stellar brand in the global cross-border education space will be a home-grown one. There are many universities that don’t have the best branding.

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Wholesum raises $50M Series A to roll up third-party sellers on e-commerce platforms

TechCrunch

Wholesum, which currently has five Korean local brands, aims to acquire an additional 15-20 brands across lifestyle, health, children and pet categories this year. “Organic growth for our portfolio of brands is high teens since the acquisition, but it’s early days, so we think we can hit 30-40% year on year once we hit our stride.