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From Jimmy Wales: “With the support of over 125,000 donors from around the world, the Wikimedia Foundation has achieved its goal of raising over $6 million USD to sustain Wikipedia. As of today, the campaign has generated just over $6.2 million USD.”
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Peter Deitz: “…people seem to be waking up to the fact that taking action on the issues they care about really does make a difference. Social Actions is well positioned to meet the growing demand for high-impact and meaningful opportunities…”
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Some great advice from Allan Benamer on using WordPress to get some amazing results.
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Beth Kanter commits to streamlining her digital life – and redesigning her blog – and the rest of us get to follow along and learn a bunch of cool things along the way. What a good deal!
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Tech press gets wise to Twitter fundraising: “The last few weeks have seen charities leveraging microdrives on a global scale via social networks like Twitter using third party donation tools.”
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Alex Steed’s chrystal ball: “It will be this year that we’ll see the rise in popularity and development of services and software intended to bring people, organizations, resources, capital, and other social assets together.”
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“Budgets are an inescapable reality of non-profit life, and they’re especially important when everyone’s panicking about economic crisis.”
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Sean Stannard-Stockton: “Philanthropy as a field of practice is still in its infancy. So rather than resolve that next year we will do more, do better, do faster. Let us humbly resolve that in 2009 we will make better mistakes than we did in 2008.”
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A great change.org discussion led by Nate Whittemore – some pretty far horizons, but also some near-term ideas for development and technology. Jump in and add your voice.
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From the Chronicle: “Several coalitions of groups promoting community and national service are urging President-elect Obama and Congress to include a “nonprofit stimulus package” as part of the economic-recovery plan they are drafting.”
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Important mesage from Phil Cubeta: “Times are brutally hard and we are all caught among conflicting demands on our resources, both financial and emotional. Charity comes from caritas as does “care.” How much can we care, for whom? “
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JD Lasica’s must-read list of conferences and events for 2009.
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Beth Kanter’s brilliant Twitter work and online crowdraising gets a deserved profle in FastCompany mag. Best advice? “Get started by reading Kanter’s blog.” Word, that!
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Philanthropy and nonprofit management expert Susan Carey Dempsey is the editor-in-chief of onPhilanthropy.com. 
Veteran consultant, journalist and entrepreneur Tom Watson is the author of CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World, a new book about online social activism. 
Social media and philanthropy evaluation expert Allison Fine is the author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age. 
Veteran development consultant Stephen Manzi is a recognized national leader in nonprofit management and fundraising strategy. 
