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Contest for Non-Profits to get Beyond Paper

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Is your nonprofit a leader in paperless fundraising? Have you had success using digital tools and techniques to raise money?

Through the Paperless Choice Challenge, we are rewarding successful, creative, and replicable campaigns that use email, websites, video, social media, widgets, and mobile —

anything that is moving your organization away from traditional paper-based direct mail fundraising.

4 prizes totalling $20,000 will be awarded to organizations demonstrating innovation and results in paperless fundraising. The Paperless Choice Challenge will be open for entries starting June 1st with the submission period ending August 16th, 2010.

Paperless Choice is a program of Catalog Choice funded by the Overbrook Foundation.

via PaperlessChoice | .

Miro Introduces Novel Way for Users to Support the Site

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Image via CrunchBase

Having our users ‘adopt’ lines of code means that they will come to own and support Miro in a more direct way than ever before. As a non-profit, we have a social and public mission built into our organization. As free and open-source software, the tools we create are open for anyone to change and reuse. It would be incredible to have a truly bottom up funding base as well.

via Adopt a Line of Miro Code! « Miro – Internet TV Blog.

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