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Your 2018 Fundraising Plan

Top Nonprofits

Or have you been thrown into your role, with no one to guide you and your boss just saying “Do it”? Treyz has co-founded a nonprofit and worked in increasingly responsible fundraising roles for 10 years. She’s trained over 12,000 people from 2011-2017 and helped nonprofits raise millions more. Her latest book, Get the Job!

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NTC Day of Service 2011: The Art of Story Capture

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My role was to document the event and collect stories. The first shift of volunteers arrived on site at 7:00 am and we were given an orientation and an overview about how computer refurbishing can be an economic empowerment tool for the homeless and save the environment. My role was to document the [.]

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NTC Day of Service 2011: The Art of Story Capture

NTEN

My role was to document the event and collect stories. The first shift of volunteers arrived on site at 7:00 am and we were given an orientation and an overview about how computer refurbishing can be an economic empowerment tool for the homeless and save the environment. Approximately 100 volunteers participated in service activities.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. This student-built app lets players take on the role of a ghost detective who encounters local residents who haunt the community.

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Our Museum: Extraordinary Resources on How Museums and Galleries Become Participatory Places

Museum 2.0

Dr. Bernadette Peters' provocative 2011 report, Whose Cake is it Anyway? And in several cases, the projects constituted "empowerment lite" for participants rather than true collaboration, co-creation, or transformation. I recommend starting with the final report, No Longer Us and Them. didn't mince words.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

If participation was my mantra from 2007-2011, community has been my mantra since then. I''ve gotten more comfortable and more confident with the idea of the museum as political body that advocates for empowerment and social bridging. Empowerment? I''m curious to know: has The Participatory Museum played a role in your work?

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. Illustration by Beth Kanter.