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Blog Action Day 2010: Water

Amy Sample Ward

Hulhumale Maldives. We’ve taken hundreds of local cafes and bound them together into a network that lets those who want water find those willing to provide it. TapIt water bottle refilling network was founded in 2008 to give New Yorkers free access to clean sustainable water on the go. 350 action in Oman Dive Center.

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Real-Time Web Social Action Events: Blurring the Offline/Online Distinction?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My guess is as we enter 2010, might we see the invention of Real Time Web fundraising events As more nonprofit explore the possibilities of location-based social networks and fundraising , the distinctions between online/offline fundraising will melt away. It's real time and location based social networks are also impacting advocacy.

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An Unconventional 3-Step Plan To Save the Oceans

Saleforce Nonprofit

event held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, we presented the first adidas x Parley prototype: a shoe made with plastic waste collected in the Maldives, and illegal fishing nets recovered from the Southern Ocean by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society during their record-breaking campaign to thwart notorious toothfish poachers.