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Candlelight Vigil for ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)

Posted Fri, 05/14/2010 - 20:30 by DustyArtaud

Candlelight Vigil for ALS
Sunday, May 16
5 - 7 p.m. SLT
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons/94/128/26

Please join The ALS Association in a candlelight vigil to mark ALS Awareness Month. This virtual vigil will follow the RL vigil in Washington DC, so that people who are not able to attend in DC can still be involved.

NPC CommonGround Networking Party May 6th, 5-7PM SLT

Posted Tue, 05/04/2010 - 10:43 by DustyArtaud

What: CommonGround Networking
When: Thursday, May 6 at 5:00PM SLT
Where: slurl to Nonprofit Commons http://bit.ly/bjAvLe

On May 6th, join us for our Splash Soiree water-themed party and costume contest (winner gets to pick the nonprofit that gets the evening’s donations). Our event sponsor is the ALS Association and our DJ is LilTank.

Did you know that May is ALS Awareness month? The ALS Association is the only national not-for-profit health organization dedicated solely to the fight against ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.

TechSoup Wins Financial Times 2010 Social Innovation Awards

Posted Thu, 03/25/2010 - 07:56 by DustyArtaud

NPC is happy to share that TechSoup Global won the open-vote portion of the Justmeans/Financial Times 2010 Social Innovation Awards . There were 88 other contenders for this Citizen's Choice Award, but because your participation, we went from 116 to 1,545 votes . Great work everybody, and we deeply appreciate the help from the entire virtual community.

Haiti Relief Benefit Ball

Posted Sun, 02/28/2010 - 08:23 by DustyArtaud


Thanks to all the wonderful participants who donated to Virtual Haiti Relief at the benefit ball last night, and particular thanks to all the volunteers and performers who made this such a success! Special shout out to Brena Benoir for putting it all together!

NPC Member Dusty Artaud Interviewed in PrimPerfect Magazine

Posted Tue, 02/09/2010 - 21:03 by DustyArtaud

Coughran Mayo interviewed Dusty about Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum, a small nonprofit that works with at-risk children in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Full Article on pages 30-31 in PrimPerfect http://arm.in/aHc

Nonprofit Commons Video Premiers on YouTube

Posted Thu, 02/04/2010 - 19:06 by DustyArtaud

TechSoup and the Nonprofit Commons have released a new video created by machinimatographer Draxtor Despres. Filmed both in real life and Second Life, it shows how nonprofits collaborating in the virtual world can make a difference in the real world, one avatar at a time.

 

Many thanks to Brownrice Internet for hosting the NPSL site.

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