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Using Social Media to Share Research

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. to fund research in an attempt to address critical social problems. The results make me optimistic about scaling social good by leveraging information.

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How Can Nonprofits Increase Leadership and Staff Diversity?

ASU Lodestar Center

A lack of leadership and staff diversity poses problems - particularly for human service organizations - because it affects their ability to fulfill their mission. In America, there is mistrust between some ethnic groups, language barriers, and general fear of outsiders among certain communities due to safety issues such as deportation.

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Leadership in Times of Transition

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Seth Cothrun Class 9, American Express Leadership Academy at the ASU Lodestar Center. I have transitioned markets, from the top of the runaway bull market in 2007 to the bubble-bursting plunge to the bottom in 2009. Outsiders see problems through a different lens and identify blind spots that you didn’t know you even had.

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Writing to Change the World

Have Fun - Do Good

This year's speaker was journalist, Samantha Power , who received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. Kristi Gee describes the program in her post, " Everyone is a teacher and a learner ": We take classes all day Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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Advice for the College Senior Who Wants to Make a Difference

Have Fun - Do Good

You have to take action either by taking a class, doing an informational interview, volunteering, interning, going to an event, or taking a job in the field that interests you. For example, at one point, I thought I wanted to be a massage therapist, but then I took a massage class, and realized I had to massage naked people I didn't know.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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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? I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

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? I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0