The weekend of May 2-3 across the U.S there will be 13 Relays For Life with an extra special component. These relays will offer a chance for people to volunteer to participate in our third cancer prevention study. CPS-3 is looking for 500,000 volunteers between the ages of 30 and 65 who have never had [...]
When you get a taste of the power of social media, your eyes grow wide and you become an Evangelist. The problem is, when you finally assume the famous Connie Reece Twitter prayer pose, the rest of the world responds with dirty looks.
Now, your reluctant old media friends have a compelling reason to jump [...]
We have been getting a great response on our post about "What the h$%^ is twitter". Wanted to update you on a few more non-profits on the list:
Leukemia Salvation Army American Cancer Society Heart Association
Karen Rose, who is running our twitter account says "we are on twitter because of the great awareness it generates [...]
Any good sports fan or coach will tell you that the key to any game is
getting and keeping the momentum. Same is true in business, and social
causes. One of the reasons large philanthropies are large is that they
have found ways and programs to build and maintain momentum. Nothing is
perpetual and maintaining forward progress should be [...]
Take a few minutes to watch this introduction to a little experiment, the FISpace Video Report. Over the next several months I’ll be doing a series of brief videos about what I think are vital topics in science and technology affecting the future for you and me, and for the ACS.
Restricted gifts are a unique topic in our business. Imagine buying
a tank of gasoline and saying that you want your profits only to go
towards green energy research, or buying a T-shirt and insisting that
your portion of profits only go towards subsidized medical coverage for
the employees. In non profits restricted gifts work just like that and
they [...]
Well do you? If your reading this blog and interested in Non-Profits, Causes and Technology then you should. 501 Tech Club is a group of people who meet once a month (or more) to talk about non-profits and technology. If you didn’t know it I have a secret to share..there are a lot of non-profit [...]
Albert
Einstein said ‘The most powerful force in the Universe is compound
interest’. To that I say ‘the most powerful force in philanthropy is
compound interests.’ The ability to bring people together based on a
common interest and to make an impact is, in my opinion, the most
important skill for a philanthropy to develop and hone. Superficially
this flies in [...]
Hey,We have some new updated featured on our site. They are:
- You can see the view count on audio and video files- You can change your password- Apostrophes are not a problem- You get an email when someone adds a comment to your file
So please visit www.sharinghope.tv and let us know if those are [...]
Remember this?
This Is Your Brain On Drugs. Just Say No. These television ad campaigns from the 1980s were oft-criticized and parodied, but also credited with a decrease in drug use among kids. No doubt, they cost millions of dollars too.
American Cancer Society is on to something cool, budget-friendly, and potentially far more effective. I handed [...]
