The savviest nonprofits won't cross their fingers and hope the next generation finds them, they'll use new tools and new game-theory to reach supporters, quickly leaving behind the gross inefficiencies of expensive dinner-plate events.

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By the 1960s, scientists had developed a theory called plate tectonics explaining the locations of volcanoes and other large-scale geologic features.

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