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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place :: 2011 Edition

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Now in it’s third year (View the 2009 Edition and 2010 Edition ), the 11 holiday gift programs listed below benefit nonprofits and thus help make the world a better place: 1. 11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits :: 2009 Edition. 11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits :: 2009 Edition.

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Favorite Do-Good Books of 2008

Have Fun - Do Good

Below is my 4th annual list of Favorite Do-Good Books (in alphabetical order). You can also check out my lists from past years: Favorite Do-Good Books of 2007 Favorite Do-Good Books of 2006 Favorite Do-Good Books of 2005 1. PhilanTopic included the book on its list of Best Philanthropy-Related Books of 2008.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Oxfam America. Feeding America. Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America.

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Giving the Gift of Accessibility

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We came up with a book wishlist for donors who wanted to pitch in and buy specific books requested by Bookshare members. One donor made a special offer to our top volunteers, those who have provided at least 150 books to Bookshare: that they could request any one book and we'd (not they!) Pavi • What a great present!

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Cause Camp: From Humble Roots to Must-Attend Conference

NonProfit Hub

Cause Camp is a nonprofit conference that has been nationally recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the best conferences in America for the nonprofit sector. After that, similar events called Brand Camp were held on and off annually through 2009. However, the name caused some confusion, and leaders sought to make a change.

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 3:56 pm Great America Networks Conferencing has a WebConferencing tool called QuickVisuals that lets you share your desktop, PowerPoint, video files, webcam from a PC/Mac/Linux platform easily. Other thing is that I noticed that they seemed to recently get certified by Skype… for both their PC and Mac versions.

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Good Food Revolution: Will Allen of Growing Power

Have Fun - Do Good

He is also a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, and in February 2010, he was invited to the White House to join First Lady Michelle Obama in launching, "Let's Move!" - her signature leadership program to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity in America. I also saw a more recent profile of him this spring on Food Forward.

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