Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

You don’t hear about it much anymore, but in 2007 there were many stories of how MySpace was helping bridge the digital divide because low-income youth were logging in and teaching themselves HTML code. Sadly, at the same time, libraries and schools across America were blocking MySpace, but allowing Facebook.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

The nonprofit creates books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. As a reuse organization, its motto is "make art, not waste." As a reuse organization, its motto is "make art, not waste." Cary Creative Center — Third-Place Winner.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2006

The Green Festival is October 14-15 in Washington DC , November 10-12 in San Francisco , and April 21-22, 2007 in Chicago. There are tons of amazing speakers at all of the events, including some fabulous visionary, activist and social entrepreneurial women. Amy Goodman from Democracy Now!

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Oxfam America won the “Advocacy Campaign” prize for their campaign to persuade Starbucks to let Ethiopia use the trademarked phrase “Ethiopian Coffee” in selling their own coffee. The campaign attracted 96,000 participants, and Starbucks did eventually change their policy, thereby benefiting poor farmers in Ethiopia.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2006

We currently travel throughout North America, Asia, and Europe, and some college credit is available. If you know a young person who might be interested in working with Up with People, they are accepting applications for their programs in July 2006, January 2007 and July 2007. Don’t be afraid to try new things or to fail.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

rootwork : The Powershift youth climate change conf in 2007 was also largely organized via social media [link]. zerostrategist : @ChristinasWorld It IS tiring, mastering the art of the “light touch / soft ask&# is not easy to keep that campaign momentum going. Specific goals help focus. I hate that feeling of bugging people.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

He writes, “Issues of war and peace top the list of what concerns voters these days but our leaders in Washington have yet to offer a hopeful vision and the smart solutions we need to make America and the planet safer.” ” Each vote costs $1, with a ten vote minimum and 1,000 vote maximum per group.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? Contact him at mhowes@mediamatters.org. All rights reserved.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? Contact him at mhowes@mediamatters.org. All rights reserved.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Note: This study used statistics from 2007 to 2016 to show the sector’s performance during and immediately after the recession, and also because this was the most recent year that data was available. When treated as a single “industry,” nonprofits are the third largest workforce in America, behind retail and food services, employing 12.3

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 15, 2023

How Team DNL’s Blackbaud Consulting Services Can Help The Interlochen Center for the Arts prepared to kick off its “Create Amazing” capital campaign when it contacted DNL OmniMedia to discuss a fully customized web development solution to engage donors.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

blog has been going for almost five years now, and I've seen people's concerns and questions evolve over that time in the following way: For the first couple of years--2006-2007--most of the questions were about the "why" of participation. The Museum 2.0 Why should institutions engage with people in this way?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And in 2001, I joined a training company and worked for them for five years and then set out on my own in 2007. So another client of mine, Upstream Arts, they provide programming in the Minneapolis schools, the Milwaukee School District, and I think they’re going to a couple other states now. But I don’t have kids.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

His first book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , which he co-authored with Anna Lappe , won a 2007 Nautilus Award for Social Change. In America, I think oftentimes one of the first things that gets cut are people's food budgets. Kellogg Foundation. He was also a co-host of the PBS series, Endless Feast. Grub Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

Beth's 51st Birthday : This was part of an overall campaign for the America's Giving Challenge in 2008 for the Sharing Foundation that raised over $50,000. I will share some pointers from Dan Zarrella's " The Art and Science of Retweet " or this article. I donated $50 to the winner's charity. Psychological underpinning: Fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

They are not a single-issue organization, rather, they focus on multiple issues of concern to women from varying economic and ethnic backgrounds because they believe that to build a truly family-friendly America we need to address the overall pattern of how policies and business practices are developed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

I remember my colleague, Jonny Goldstein , launched his show in the fall of 2007 and gave a terrific talk about live streaming technology and web talk shows at Podcamp Boston in 2007. Tags: america giving challenge backchannel crowdsourcing engagement. Chris Pirillo comes to mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I'm writing this post from 30,000 feet aboard Virgin America as I fly back to California from a whirlwind week on the East Coast. more like the Berkman Center Thursday evening blogger meetups I used to attend from 2005-2007. Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. That's rare in a conference setting. It reminded more of a saloon than a conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Pepsi has embraced a learning as you go approach when it comes to social media and the art of public learning. Did Pepsi stonewall and ignore it as we have seen happen with previous online contests? Mistakes and stumbles happen and as Chris Brogan recommends you need to apologize and learn.

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