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Good Food Revolution: Will Allen of Growing Power

Have Fun - Do Good

In 2008, Will was named a John D. After a brief career in professional basketball, and a number of years in corporate marketing at Procter and Gamble, Will returned to his roots as a farmer, using his retirement package to purchase a plot of inner city land with greenhouses, where he has built the country's pre-eminent urban farm.

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Reflection and Evaluation

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 Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice. I have found this invaluable as a way to move forward in my course of study.

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The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop launches today!

Museum 2.0

To that end, there's an added incentive for this pilot stage (through June 2008): $5000 to any exhibit concept deemed spectacular enough to develop into a real exhibit here at The Tech. To be eligible for the prize, your exhibit must be on the theme of "Art, Film, Music & Technology." A contractor, Involve Inc.,

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Bryant Terry: Eco-chef, Food Justice Activist, Author of Vegan Soul Kitchen

Have Fun - Do Good

At the end of 2008, I initiated a new project called the Grow. In Grub , you paired music with recipes and meals. I also like to include art, music, culture and a lot of things that I think get lost in the politics. As with most ethnic cuisines, it has some of the decadent foods, but that's not the totality of it. Grub Project.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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The Madison Nonprofit Day Conference is a one-day conference jammed pack with ~30 workshop sessions, networking, exhibits, lunch, and a variety of activities. This conference features exceptional speakers and a plethora of workshops that address key issues and trends affecting nonprofit human-serving organizations. Mar 10 - 19.

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How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In other words, don’t make a copies for a workshop, or for a colleague who isn’t inside your organization, and definitely don’t make a copy for your mother to read. You may post it to your intranet, so long as access to that intranet is restricted to those who work for your organization [emphasis mine].

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.