Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 29, 2012

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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JANUARY 22, 2009

Today is Blog for Choice Day 2009 , an event organized by NARAL Pro-Choice America. It's also expected that today might be the day that President Obama repeals the so-called "Mexico City Policy" or "global gag rule" - also excellent fodder for bloggers if or when it happens. And that I'm able to help them do it!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 8, 2009

19-25 Make a Difference Day: October 24th Step Up Women's Network: WE Volunteer Charity of the Month And 1 new post on the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship blog: 5 Ways Theatres Can Use Social Media LINK LOVE Did you know that now you don't need an iPhone to micro-volunteer with The Extraordinaries?

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2009

Here are highlights from the web of NTEN members doing their, you know, NTEN-type awesomeness: NARAL-Pro Choice America launched a contest on Twitter last week: submit hashtag (#) ideas for aggregating the discussion around "the Supreme Court battle that's just around the corner." And back to my 2009 NTENnies Highlights: Lou August.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 26, 2009

This year, Hunger Challenge participants will try to eat 3 meals for $4 per day, per person, during the week of September 20-26, 2009. If you'd like to learn more about national and global hunger issues, check out the national and international organizations listed below. You can take the Challenge for one day, or for the whole week.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Case Foundation, Causes, and PARADE are joining together to present the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge , a national competition launching on October 7. 4 Steps for Selling Your Art: Interview with Alyson B. Change.org is hiring bloggers. Blog Action Day is October 15th. This year's theme is climate change.

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DECEMBER 4, 2012

I couldn’t help but also think how powerful it would be if an organization like the Case Foundation hosted a convening of those involved with various giving days and challenges to share best practices and learning, perhaps leading to something even global. Each year since the event started in 2009, we’ve seen these numbers grow.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps first emerged from a meeting in DC in 2009 in which several dozen local engineers, nonprofit executives, disaster coordinators, and public sector executives got together to brainstorm better, faster disaster coordination possibilities. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2009

60) Search « Washington Post: Fundraising Via Email Is Way More Effective than via Social Networks | Main | Punching Up Your Action Alerts and Online Fundraising Appeals » Tuesday Apr 21 2009 Congratulations to Nonprofit Campaigners on Three Recent Victories Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 11:22PM | by Clinton OBrien 1.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps first emerged from a meeting in DC in 2009 in which several dozen local engineers, nonprofit executives, disaster coordinators, and public sector executives got together to brainstorm better, faster disaster coordination possibilities. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

In 2010, SAP invested almost US$17 million in universities and nonprofits worldwide, an increase from US$10 million in 2009. Although one million people may seem like an enormous number, consider this: on October 31, 2011, the global population reached 7 billion. Making Social Investments.

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JUNE 5, 2018

I recently returned from New York City, where I was able to spend two incredible days with 72 fellow global nonprofit leaders selected to attend the fourth annual American Express Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit. posted by Seth Cothrun Class 9, American Express Leadership Academy at the ASU Lodestar Center.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Her, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide was on my Favorite Do-Good Book of 2007 list. They'll be publishing a young readers' version of the book in late January 2009. One of the projects he is involved with these days is The Elders. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

January 2008 As the first place winner in the America's Giving Challenge for Global Causes, I use several twitter strategies. How will Twitter be using for fundraising for good causes and by nonprofits in 2009? Is your organization considering using Twitter for fundraising sometime in 2009?

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

In a packed room at the 2009 NTC in San Francisco, LeVar Burton loomed large. Another example of don't-believe-it-til-you-try-it came from Oxfam America's end-of-year campaign. Marc Ruben, M+R Strategic Services. With the U.S.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

With the global financial crisis at its peak and a recession looming, many nonprofit managers are probably asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise money next year?" Current best practices will serve nonprofits just fine in 2009. Peter Deitz, Social Actions.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

In 2009, for example, 2 trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing directly. http ://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/world/americas/21text.html?_r= Another example of indirect content is that of social networks. http ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 7_July_2005_London_bombings. http ://www.noula.ht/index.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media,” Beth was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013. Other projects during this time included ABC News’ re-launch of Good Morning America and World News Tonight.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

Right before the holidays, eBay released 2009 figures for Giving Works , its fundraising program and marked a historic record for total funds raised for non-profits through ebay.com. I was lucky enough to do a quick email interview with Robert Chatwani, eBay’s head of Global Citizenship, to learn more behind the numbers. (1)

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

ServiceNation , a national campaign to increase service opportunities and elevate the importance of service in America, has received a $500,000 grant from Facebook as part of its expanded partnership. NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

How the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is using the web to bring back together their band of brothers and sisters. One, the key issue facing activists who wish for real social change is the mismatch between the scale of our problems (global) and the natural scale of our sociality (local). The examples are there, too.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I fell in love with it all the way back in 2009. From 2018 - 2020, she served as the Director of Communications for the Public Relations Society of America's local Hoosier chapter. And our conference, The Rooted Retreat is in two short weeks, and you can just head over to therootedretreat.com. So I used StrengthsFinders.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

The dollars that are being given in America are moving from the middle class to the wealthy, from income to assets, and from boomers to millennials. It was invented or the software, the protocol, the rules of Bitcoin, which are sort of instantiated in software code were pushed out onto the network in 2009. So it was pushed out in 2009.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

For instance, Uber has transformed the taxi industry in the decade following its inception in 2009,and now dominates 69 percent of the ride-sharing market. Similarly, there has been a global rise of worker-managed platform cooperatives in response to the rise of platform companies.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

The dollars that are being given in America are moving from the middle class to the wealthy, from income to assets, and from boomers to millennials. It was invented or the software, the protocol, the rules of Bitcoin, which are sort of instantiated in software code were pushed out onto the network in 2009. So it was pushed out in 2009.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

With finances a little tight this year, I've had to reduce the number of organizations I'm donating to in 2009. It was my own story of wanting to understand why my mother sent me to America all of a sudden in an arranged marriage that I document. One of the ones I am continuing to support is Women for Women International.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

For context, please see this guest post by Bonin Bough, The Global Director of Social Media for Pepsi, published earlier this month on my blog. The Pepsi Refresh Contest is the boldest experiment. At this point, they are at number 80 on the leaderboard, not bad for an organization that had social media on its to do list for 2010.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

The drone then drifts over the home of someone who has just logged onto the site Scale, which sources workers across the Middle East and Latin America to label images used to guide automated drones systems. The LAPD has used the software around 30,000 times since 2009, often to defend richer enclaves from ‘gang crime’.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

On March 5, 2009 I interviewed yoga teacher and co-Founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, Seane Corn , for the Big Vision Podcast shortly after she returned from a trip to Cambodia with participants from Off the Mat, Into the World's Seva Challenge. --Seane Corn, co-Founder, Off the Mat, Into the World.

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