Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2008

Inspired by TechStars and YCombinator , the Garage creates a ( drupal platform) community where current and potential applications for funding can enter their ideas, share comments and peer review, and request mentor support to improve their application before they submit it.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2020

Strategize with this economic downturn in mind, not the 2008 recession. While it’s natural to look back at the recession of 2008, this is a very different economic disaster. I’ve also tried to find ways to connect with other fundraisers and to engage as a mentor.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2011

Guiding, supporting, mentoring, and coaching staff is indeed rewarding. Next Generation Leaders Speak Out (2008) and Daring to Lead 2011: A National Study of Nonprofit Executive Leadership. How can managing people be satisfying and rewarding while simultaneously frustrating and depleting?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Through mentors, professional networks and investor forums, ZeroDivide brings a deep knowledge of what makes a venture successful. Since our inception in 1998, almost $50 million has been invested through us in overcoming community-building barriers. But access to technology is just the starting point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Amazon, in 2005, and Google, in 2008, learned the hard way. Online seminars that teach non-profits how to use social networking tools is also very helpful as is assigning mentors to projects, which Pepsi will be doing in their program. Just evaluating all the submissions can take many, many people hours.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Thad Cochran (R-MS), and Sen.Christopher Dodd (D-CT)) that she is a part of who will be pushing the Serve America Act of 2008. "We The Education Corps will tackle the need for more mentors and leaders in schools, and try to stem the drop out crisis. The Act will create four Corps. Videos and photos from the Summit are available online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

In 2008, I had my first opportunity to speak on a panel at SXSW called " Pimp My Nonprofit " with Ed Schipul as the moderator. At this year's SXSW, I was invited to participate on a flash panel about women and technology conferences which ended up being about mentoring. We had to replace one of the speakers and I recommended Michaela.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 18, 2009

I was excited to see that Cristi Hegranes of the Press Institute for Women in the Developing World , who I interviewed in early 2008 , was included in the Political Activism chapter. The Youth and Education chapter was my personal favorite.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Mentoring and Teaching tools : Inspiration for up-and-coming leaders and tools to help teachers introduce youth to public service are just a couple of the items that you'll find to help the next generation of do- gooders get fueled. By September 2008, after years of steady growth, these little drops were covering 70% of our budget.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Foundations have consistently remained conservative in their grant and operational spending since the financial market crash of 2008 and have been looking to do more with their limited resources. Grants that are Hyper Issue-Focused with Holistic Approaches to Problem Solving.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

This can mean purchasing of open source development companies (Sun MIcrosystems -- now owned by Oracle -- purchased open source database developer MySQL AB in 2008). Identify or recruit some open-source mentors and build this skill set in your organization if it's not already there.

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Vist the Program Locator section of the Tutor/Mentor Connection at [link] and you can see examples of how maps can be used to focus volunteers and donors on all of the neighborhoods of a city that need a particular non profit service. October 7, 2007 | Dan Bassill Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Good luck with your presentation.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This initiative has been made possible through collaboration with Tsofen, a local nonprofit organization launched in 2008 by Arab and Jewish founders to promote high-tech careers in Arab society as a lever for economic development and the creation of a shared society for Arabs and Jews in Israel.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Vist the Program Locator section of the Tutor/Mentor Connection at [link] and you can see examples of how maps can be used to focus volunteers and donors on all of the neighborhoods of a city that need a particular non profit service. October 7, 2007 | Dan Bassill Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Good luck with your presentation.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2007

May 29, 2007 | Bobbi Russell Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Attendees discussed a recent Nicholas Kristof article illustrating how bringing stories to a human scale - like ones about puppies and children - can be much more effective than broader ones. Reader Comments (1) Thanks to James & Hatef for attending. All rights reserved.

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Care2

MAY 17, 2007

May 29, 2007 | Bobbi Russell Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Attendees discussed a recent Nicholas Kristof article illustrating how bringing stories to a human scale - like ones about puppies and children - can be much more effective than broader ones. Reader Comments (1) Thanks to James & Hatef for attending. All rights reserved.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Heroes I admired from afar became friends and mentors. Seek out mentors. I expected the museum blogosphere to explode in 2007 or 2008. The blog naturally and easily spawned a consulting business, but even more importantly, it connected me with a whole world of inspiring, challenging, thoughtful colleagues. Share your ideas.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 3, 2018

Aid programs may be necessary to benefit the individuals currently in poverty, but it does not provide a lasting solution (Dees, 2008). Scharmer (2008) accuses these failures to the blind “deeper dimension of leadership and transformational change” (Scharmer, 2008). Executive Forum, Winter 2008, 52-59. Scharmer, C.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2014

Everyday, people across the country mentor students, beautify neighborhoods, help older Americans to live independently, restore homes after disasters, and much more. increased by 60 percent from 593,802 in 1998 to 947,274 in 2008 (IRS. 2008, making 2009 the largest single-year increase in the number of. communities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

in the Spring of 2008 at an Innovations in Journalism conference, I thought, this is going to be big. was a 2008 Knight News Challenge Winner. We launched in November of 2008. When I first heard David Cohn talk about Spot.us Shortly afterwards, it was announced that Spot.us It's only been, what, like a year?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Here is the user profile by age circa July 2008 (per this report ). Many adults have become engaged with Scratch both as mentors/educators and as creators in their own right. While the largest grouping is from age 9-18, you can see the long tail of participants up into their 60s. And here is the creator profile by participation.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Each fellow is guided by a personal volunteer, mentor, and a coach, who are professionals in different fields. PT started using Salesforce.com in 2008, taking advantage of its free licenses for nonprofits. It was not used efficiently at the beginning. Today, Simi is the sole person is dedicated to customizing Salesforce.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

With initial funding of $2,500, he started the CompuMentor Project to match computer enthusiast volunteers called computer mentors with Bay Area nonprofits that needed the help. CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Skills: SCORE (Counselors to America's Small Business) facilitates volunteer mentors' giving advice to aspiring entrepreneurs. The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation has named February 11-17, 2008 Random Acts of Kindness Week. Things: Find a Goodwill or public library near you to donate clothes and books.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

One of my mentors, Michael Brown, told me, “The only way to get better is to change.” The project will launch in December, and we are planning to have our first exhibits developed by this process on the floor at The Tech in summer of 2008. So now, after almost a year of Game Fridays, it’s time for a change.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Of the people youve met or worked with in your years working in the nonprofit sector, are there any who have made an especially profound impression on your thinking, or who have served as an especially valuable mentor or friend to you? March 13, 2008 | Carie Wow! November 5, 2008 | pavlo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Of the people youve met or worked with in your years working in the nonprofit sector, are there any who have made an especially profound impression on your thinking, or who have served as an especially valuable mentor or friend to you? March 13, 2008 | Carie Wow! November 5, 2008 | pavlo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

" --Favianna Rodriguez Below is the edited transcript of a Big Vision Podcast interview from November 13, 2008 with Favianna Rodriguez, a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. I decided that I was going to reach out to the mentors and the adults who I could learn something from. I decided that, "Hey.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

The original version of Movements.org was founded in 2008 by then-U.S. " I had the opportunity to speak with David Keyes, executive director of Advancing Human Rights , to learn more about this project. The Evolution of Movements.org: Making a Meeting Place for Human Rights. Beyond Slacktivism to a Personal Relationship with a Cause.

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