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Has Your Nonprofit Considered Race and Class in Your Social Media Strategy?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd (@ zephoria ) says though experts once thought the internet would help destroy racial barriers, “all of the divisions that exist in every day life, including those by race and class, actually re-emerge online” Excerpt from Social Media for Social Good : .

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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Seth Cothrun, Class 9, American Express Leadership Academy at the ASU Lodestar Center. According to a study by The Russell Sage Foundation and The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, the GFC reduced total giving by 7 percent in 2008 and by another 6.2 Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. This decline is not anecdotal.

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Care2 and NOAA Promote International Year of the Reef 2008 - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

The idea was that thefederal agency would work with Care2 to build support for the International Year of the Reef 2008. Im going to be mentioning your partnership in speeches I give and in classes I teach as I move forward and I only hope others learn to emulate you in other areas. Great work. All rights reserved.

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The Networked NGO in Australia and New Zealand: Te Ao Maori

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I delivered the keynote there in 2008 and taught a workshop, “ Take Me To The Social Web.” I’m headed to New Zealand and Australia to facilitate workshops in both countries and to keynote the ConnectingUp Conference (Australia’s version of the Nonprofit Technology Conference).

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Ubuntu open week

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Ubuntu open week November 26, 2006 Next week is Ubuntu Open Week , a series of events and classes about Ubuntu Linux , and for people interested in getting involved in Ubuntu.

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The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I met Rufina in 2008 in Australia when I keynoted the Connecting Up Conference and taught social media workshops for NGOs. At the Sujaya School, I visited a second grade art class. I also visited the sixth grade class. They were busy drawing planets or rockets. How deep is the Pacific Ocean?

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How’s that donor database of yours?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

December 2, 2008 In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. DonorPro and NEON CRM are at the top of the class, and will, I’m sure, get into Harvard Med. But its safe to say that these are good contenders, and did well. Last but not least, the grading.

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