Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

On Saturday, the week-long journey will culminate at Arlington in honor of National Wreaths Across America Day. This ceremony that began as Worcester Wreaths’ company project in 1992 has since evolved into something bigger than him, bigger than his company, bigger than all of us, known now as Wreaths Across America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

But many other people across America won't have that luxury. According to the Food Research and Action Center , more than 36 million people lived in households in America struggling against hunger in 2007. Hunger isn't just a problem in America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

In 2007, the popular Free Rice online game used quiz-style vocabulary building game that rewarded correct answers with ten grains per bowl to feed hungry children. Jumpstart for Young Children. Feeding America. Note from Beth: I've been tracking the games for change space for a few years, although not very deeply.

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DECEMBER 2, 2009

To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Since I was a first year college student at UC Berkeley, I have been working with students and schools in low-income communities and have grown increasingly aware of how educational disparities keep children from reaching their potential. I taught in the Bronx for two years through Teach For America while working toward my M.A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I was an early adopter of this approach back in 2006 and over the years I have had the opportunity to raise over $250,000 for a charity that supports Cambodian children using these techniques as part of online giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge. Enter online fundraising contests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. The 2007 Crunchies is its first annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. Not at all?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

July 24, 2007. It takes time, but does show results as the comments on the original Mashable post seem to indicate: Two years ago The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada established a presence on Facebook and incorporated guidelines for our Chapters to establish their local groups. The Long Tail of Facebook Causes. Frogloop Blog.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Which individuals and households are most at risk – the youngest children, all children, women, the elderly? Have the answers to these questions changed during recent years (2007, 2010, 2013)? Have the answers to these questions changed during recent years (2007, 2010, 2013)? family structure? Which are widespread?

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JANUARY 19, 2022

Salesforce Pardot was also acquired by ExactTarget in 2012 after its founding in 2007. Success Story: Creating Equity In Education With Teach For America + Marketing Cloud. After being purchased by Salesforce in 2013, Marketing Cloud quickly evolved into the multi-faceted powerhouse we know today. Francis College + Marketing Cloud.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And I know you’ve got a little cold, but that’s what children give you. And in 2001, I joined a training company and worked for them for five years and then set out on my own in 2007. As Steven knows and a few of you on the session here know, I don’t have children. Are you doing okay? I don’t have a cold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2012

The photo above is of my children, Harry and Sara, who were both adopted from Cambodia. When my husband and I were in Cambodia in 2000 to bring home Harry, our infant son, we got a blessing from a monk. I met Leng in 2007 and recorded this interview. My children will meet her for the first time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. 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.

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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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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

decrease from 2007 ($83,034), after adjusting for inflation. Average total giving to religious causes dropped in 2009 to $9,985 from $17,635 in 2007, a decrease of 43.4%. Average total giving to secular causes was also down in 2009 to $46,852 from $71,200 in 2007, a decrease of 34.2%. This is a 34.9% personal efforts and family?s

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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

MAY 26, 2008

While there she lived and worked with immigrants from throughout the US and Central America, and they shared their experiences. FIRM is currently running the Building America Together Campaign , a national campaign to build the strength of immigrant rights in the US, and to work for just and humane immigration reform.

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APRIL 2, 2008

She has been the recipient of many awards, including Fast Company's 2007 Social Capitalist Award, and the League of Women Voters' Women Who Could Be President Award. Women and their children are disproportionately victims of outside violence as well. Women and children are 70% of those who live on less than $2 or $1 a day.

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