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A great answer from Mint.com:

budget planner – Mint.com

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Click on the above 10 Tactics logo or here to get a great resource on how advocates can use digital media to galvanize people to take action.  I was alerted to this resource by Beth Kanter.  I agree with her, it’s a great resource. It reminds us of the immediacy and power of pictures and images to tell stories and create change.  As this documentary shows, it’s one thing to tell - a quite another to show.  You could talk about corruption in Morocco - or you could film gendarmes shaking down motorists for bribes. 

Ideas that attracted the most attention in the nonprofit world in 2009

A great post from Jeff Brooks at Future Fundraising Now.

What are the biggest moments in philanthropy during the last decade?

I’d to wish everyone a happy holiday! I’m off to explore the California Coast and stare at the ocean for a few days. Taking a break from the blog, Twitter, and Facebook!

Activists around the world are using social media tools to make change. A new 50- minute documentary film called “10 Tactics for Turning Information into Action” is a guide to how best to use take advantage of the power of…

Last month I made a prediction that we might see fundraisers with FourSquare or some other location-based mobile social network with gaming element. Looks like my observation of fundraising 2.0 trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on….

Should online contests be redesigned or just go away? That’s the question that Kari Dunn Saratovsky asks in a post over at the Case Foundation blog, one of many blog posts and tweets about the controversy surrounding how the Chase…