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Cause Creation: Teen Dies in Transplant Outrage, and a Movement Begins
When 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan died on Dec. 20th while awaiting a liver transplant her insurance company refused to pay for until it was too late, her case moved beyond one family’s desperate...
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A Nomination Won Online
When Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President on Thursday night, he capped a long and inspiring campaign that set records for fundraising and personal involvement – and he also put...
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Bill Clinton and the Economic Crisis: A Blogger's Chat
The question for philanthropy says former President Bill Clinton, is whether “people give more or less” during the unfolding American financial crisis. “I think there’s at least a 50-percent chance...
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Not So Fast! Election Day Monitoring Goes Mobile
Just three weeks ago, social networking gurus Nancy Scola and Allison Fine of techPresident and the Personal Democracy Forum tossed out a big idea: why not use mobile technology and the kind of...
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CauseWired Politics: Remembering the Near Past
By this time tomorrow, the United States will likely have a new President-elect – and just as likely, he will be the product of the most socially-wired campaign in American history. Maintaining tight...
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What Obama's Victory Means for the Social Sector
[Cross-posted from onPhilanthropy.com] In a victory that holds deep lessons for how nonprofit organizations and cause-driven ventures will organize volunteers and build support in the future, Barack...
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Change.gov vs. Change.org
If President-elect Barack Obama and his transition team are looking for a model that uses the power of social networks and citizen democracy to open up government, they ought to bring their own...
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Post-Obama Organizing? It's Already in the Streets
Understandably, there’s been a lot of discussion in the last two weeks about the future of the powerful Obama Internet operation. Does the vast, empowered constituency serve as a virtual public...
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