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National Volunteer Week. From April 21st through 27th, we express our appreciation for the millions of Americans who achieve exceptional things through service by donating their time and passion to causes that matter.

 

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Believe it or not, Valentine’s Day happened just one month ago. Whether your V-Day was one to remember (or one to forget), it already seems like a long time since we devoted a day to love, in all of its forms. That’s the problem with Va

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Giving Tuesday and CafeGive

CafeGive will celebrate a national movement that is making, November 27, 2012, a day dedicated to giving (#GivingTuesday) by offering businesses and their causes ready to deploy Facebook apps to support end of year giving.

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Thank you to all who joined us last night at our Social Media Roundtable where Author Andy Smith of The Dragonfly Effect shared the stories, philosophy and framework on how to use social media to have a positive social impact and help your business at the same time. His talk, his approach and his framework is targeted at businesses, but interestingly it seemed less about creating wealth through social channels than it was about

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Over the last few months, we have been busy learning about credit unions' community giving programs and how social media can increase the impact of community giving programs. Many of the credit unions we have talked to have corporate cause partnerships that align with their mission, have strong internal engagement and authentic commitment from leadership. One of our credit union customers, Credit Union 1 of Alaska, embrace the true credit union s

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Whether we call it community involvement, strategic philanthropy, cause marketing or purpose based branding - when businesses and nonprofits successfully partner -- change happens. It’s good for the community, the business and its employees, and the mission of the nonprofit. 

Businesses are increasingly seeking nonprofits that have the ability to raise their own brands by association, as well as foster loyalty and turn stakeholders customers into advoc

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Social media's only making marketing stronger.

Staying up to date with people, news, ideas, and events has never been easier, thanks to social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The world is more connected than ever before, and grows more so every day: Last week, Facebook reached one billion users, while YouTube receives

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This is a pretty exciting week for us. It marks an important milestone in our journey as entrepreneurs, and an exciting new page for our customers and the company. The three founders of CafeGive started with the idea that we could bring our years of internet marketing expertise and software experience to build a company dedicated to helping causes and businesses realize good together. We have so much experience between us, and it isn’t just technology experience. We have all been i

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Every day, more and more buying decisions are being made based on socially responsible actions. Companies with authentic stories to share and inspiration to build around their brand are doing it with Cause Marketing initiatives. Now you can create great loyalty around your brand and build on your reputation as a good company.

At CafeGive Social, we

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