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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

What would happen, instead, if organizations focused on eliminating hunger?) My mother taught me many things, and I feel like with every year she teaches me more – whether she knows it or not. I see this work in public maps like Open Green Map. Are you fueling with love? I see this lesson in the work of 350.org.

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14 Nonprofit Books Recommended by Top Industry Experts

Classy

By Alison Green and Jerry Hauser. This book focuses on getting results by teaching new and experienced nonprofit leaders the fundamental skills of effective management. Rather than fearing the inevitable, this book will teach you how to feel, map, assess, and learn from the continual state of flux we experience everyday.

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Personalized nutrition startup Zoe closes out Series B at $53M total raise

TechCrunch

“Built around your food scores, our app will teach you how to make smart swaps, week by week.” Basic stuff like eat your greens, avoid processed foods and cut down (or out) sugar? How to eat a food that doesn’t dip your sugar levels three hours after you eat it which causes hunger for you.

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Three Different Approaches to Twitter Fundraising: Bees, Turkeys, and Blame

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

All you had to do was click and play a word game, and that leveraged a food donation to fight hunger. In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. The game was very engaging for adults and children alike. .

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Meet Connie Reece: Using Social Media to Strike Back At Ike

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last December, I watched Twitter turn into a sea of frozen green peas to support Susan Reynolds in her fight against breast cancer and to raise money for research in her honor. I acquired my love of my words from my mom, who started teaching me to read when I was three, and who still, at age 84, delights in beating me at word games.

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How Chestnut Ridge Church Reinvents the Church Experience with Technology

Tech Soup

Teaching pastor, Tim Haring, founded the church in 1985. The 30-Hour Famine event is a project in which school children learn about hunger, raise funds to help hungry kids in the world, and experience hunger for themselves. This story was written by Jim Lynch, director, green technology at TechSoup. spanhidden.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's just three people/content connections on this topic that I found from Technorati search: A search on "tags" lead me directly to a YouTube channel from the Youth Health Alliance and a series of youth-created videos on nutrition, including the one above that explains why it is better to drink green tea versus software drinks.

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