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Some Golden Nuggets of Social Change

Sunday, November 29th, 2009 | Blog Talk

In between turkey and tweeting, I caught up on some of my online do-gooders, as well as explored and discovered new (and highly valuable) minds who are doing good. Thus, this post is filled with some true golden nuggets of social change. Enjoy!

• Find new friends in this list of the top 100 Social Entreprenuership Tweeple to follow, put together by @socialedge, a program of the Skoll Foundation. What I love most, is that this post also gives you a great listing of hashtags and what their purpose is as well.
• Speaking of @socialedge, I discovered that they host weekly live discussion around numerous social change topics, including this one: What works in social change? Feel free to give input based on your knowledge and experiences–I did.
• Can prevention PROSPER? Read up on this prevention program–backed by the CDC, NIDA and the Annie E. Casey Foundation–whose trial shows a $10 payback on every $1 invested. Now, it’s getting ready to go national.
• Going to be in D.C. on February 12? If so, you may be able to catch the Non-Profit 2.0 Conference organized by Geoff Livingston, Shireen Mitchel, and Allysin Kapin.
• Even though I did my own research on millennials for a project I did for Special Olympics Missouri, it’s always good to see what others found out as well.  Those at Millennial Marketing put together a FREE e-book titled “Marketing to Millennials.”
• On someone’s Twitter list and you don’t want to be? Read up on how to opt-out of someone else’s list through this back door trick.
• Have some doubters in your presence? Share Valerie Maltoni’s free e-book, Twittertales, a collection of Twitter success stories.
• Seeing the time of giving is upon us, check out this article on Barron’s that lists the Top 25 Philanthropists.
• Keeping with the giving theme, did you know you could start a fundraiser with wine? Find your favorite charity or rally friends around one–and buy some wine in support of it. I discovered this while doing my own holiday shopping, so I wanted to share the idea with others. Think goodsearch–just with wine.

People Doing It Right (hat tip to Chris Brogan)

• Health Populi. Written by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, I find just about every single post of hers helpful, thought-provoking and insightful. Lately, it’s become a blog staple–the kind that you can’t wait to read when you see there’s a new post in your RSS reader.
• Prevention in Action. With its focus on prevention and research–how can you not be a fan of this organization’s news content? They are writing about topics not everyone writes about, pulling evidence, timely events and research together in a way that gets the mind ticking.
• 501derful.org. We all already know he’s doing it right seeing as David Neff won AMA’s Non-Profit Marketer of the Year award. But with Neff’s recent announcement that has left the American Cancer Society to pursue his next big adventure, I’ve been staying tuned to his blog ever more closely as I admire his leadership and courage to follow his passion of Lights. Camera. Help.

What about you? What golden nuggets did you discover over the holiday?

flickr photo credit: Curtis Gregory Perry

Tags: Annie E. Casey Foundation, David Neff, discovery, good, Health Populi, holiday, inspiration, knowledge, Millennials, non-profit, philanthropists, philanthropy, prevention, Prevention in Action, Skoll Foundation, social change, Social Edge, social entreprenuer, social entreprenuership, Twittertales

6 Comments to Some Golden Nuggets of Social Change

Andre Blackman
November 30, 2009

Fantastic resources here Alex! Thanks so much - I have been a fan of Jane Sarasohn-Kahn for awhile myself. She is an amazing woman who I’ve been fortunate to connect with in person a few times. She is @healthythinker on Twitter

Valeria Maltoni
November 30, 2009

Thank you kindly for including Twittertales, Alex. Loved each and every story and know there are so many more out there we can take inspiration and ideas from. Thank you for compiling these resources - a real treasure trove, which I’ll be sharing.

Alex
November 30, 2009

@Andre: No problem.

@Valerie: Thank YOU for collecting the stories. If I would have made a longer list of “people doing it right,” you and Andre would both be right up there at the top as well!

Akhila
December 4, 2009

Hey! Just found your site and this is a great list of resources. Thanks again and I’m excited to see other bloggers writing about social change!

David J. Neff
December 29, 2009

Dangit! Thanks for making me blush. And thanks for staying tuned for my next big adventure! It’s cool to have people like you along for the ride.

Alex
December 29, 2009

@Akhila Great to connect.

@David Of course. I have a feeling 2010 is going to be a big adventure as 2009 has been great–look forward to what 2010 holds.

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