The CauseWired Round-Up
By Tom Watson on October 22, 2008No Comment
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Phil Cubeta on the markets: “…Certain mega-trends are converging: loss of faith in Wall St; youth impatient with traditional and seemingly doomed career choices; ecosystems in dire need of care; innovative social investment structures…”
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Via Susan Herr: “While information technology can play an important role in making information of this sort available to donors, the main challenges are not technological, but flow from the nonprofit organizations’ limited time and capacity.”
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Peter: “The Social Actions logo contest is heating up. Earlier this month, Genius Rocket announced a $500 award for the graphic designer that creates the best new logo for Social Actions. So far, there have been a total of 38 logos submitted.”
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Max Gladwell: “These are tools and resources that individuals, corporations, and nonprofits alike can use to communicate, create, and connect through the social web. These are the new agents of change.”
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Amy Sampleward: “Replyforall is built on the knowledge that we all send a lot of emails – to our friends, our colleagues, our family. We have a lot of emails, and replyforall helps us change all of the emails we have into things we can do!”
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JD: When the next natural disaster hits, we may be able to see which charitable organization online donors are sending their money to. We’ll be able to see how many people contributed, how much they gave, which organizations are raising the most funds…
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