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Patrick Rothfuss Raises Funds, a Mind Map

(Click on the above image or see the Patrick Rothfuss Mind Map here.) You never know where a video, a comment to a family member or a blog post will lead. Online fundraisers constantly ask each other whether you can truly measure the impact of social media. The answer: some you can, some you can’t. A […]

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Landfill Harmonic

Yet one more example of a group that has accomplished a great deal with seemingly nothing. Every day 1,500 tons of solid waste are dumped in a landfill near Bañado Sur, in Paraguay. About 2,500 families make their living sorting the garbage for recycling and reselling, according to UNICEF. “Children are often the ones with the onerous […]

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Musical Stairs

What do I get for helping your cause? Maybe it’s a cool holiday present. Maybe it’s a chance to win an iPad in a raffle. Maybe it’s a chance to rub shoulders with some local celebrities at a gala. Marketing folks talk about benefit exchange: what do I give you, and what do you give […]

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NYC Carbon Visualization

How much CO2 do we spew into the atmosphere? The folks at Carbon Visuals tell us that in 2010 in people New York City generated about 54 metric tons, mostly from buildings. Their new short video gives us a sense of what that looks like. Actually, NYC residents have one of the smallest per capita […]

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Rolling Jubilee

The biblical notion of Jubilee is both strange and radical: after the seventh cycle of seven years, economic chaos is unleashed, and it’s good news for people for whom justice is long overdue. “This fiftieth year is sacred—it is a time of freedom and of celebration when everyone will receive back their original property, and […]

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25 Creative Bench Messages

Does your nonprofit have a special cause that needs attention? Is there something you’d like to get people to do? How could you use a simple bench to get the word out? Blogger Syed Balkhi (List 25) has compiled 25 Incredibly Creative Bench Ads. Some clever folk found ways to talk about global warming, human […]

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Treehugger’s 21 Super Kids

                Have you noticed this too? Are you seeing a growing number of tweens, teens and twenty-somethings taking on the problems we older folks are handing them? I meet them on planes, in my neighborhood—even in my own house! Get inspired: Treehugger has collected 21 stories kids getting a […]

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Surprise Visit from a Superhero

A patient at LeBonhuer Children’s Hospital in Memphis is greeted by Spiderman. You’ve got to occasionally clean all those windows, so washers with American National Skyline put on Spiderman costumes to the delight of patients and their families. Photos: Brandon Dill/AP via NBC News.

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Illegal The Movie

In this six-minute film, young people tell how not having a simple document impacts their lives. Why the Dream Act matters. Say those behind the video: “Though an important step was taken with the president’s order to halt the deportations of some young undocumented residents, we must remember that his executive order could change as early […]

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Spring Back: Recycling Mattresses, Renewing Lives

A group of Belmont University students in Nashville, Tennessee, recently took on two tough social issues: the millions of mattresses that end up in landfills and the likelihood that former inmates will return to prison. In 2011 the students teamed up with Belmont Church to create Spring Back Recycling, a nonprofit that’s already getting a lot […]

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