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Connecting with Black History Through Community and Nature

Saleforce Nonprofit

In 2009, Rue Mapp started a blog to share her experience participating in outdoor recreation activities as a Black woman in America. RM: We started with a dozen leaders who responded to the call to join our first Outdoor Afro Leadership Team in 2012. There is just no singular Black experience in America.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

But first steps first… 11 New Year’s resolutions for nonprofit social media managers: 1) Create a “Thank You” video(s) for your 2012 fundraising campaigns. America didn’t seem like such a mess in the foreign media. It’s for this reason that Accuracy in Media made my 2012 Favorite Nonprofits list.

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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Seth Cothrun, Class 9, American Express Leadership Academy at the ASU Lodestar Center. To help facilitate this discussion, have your CFO run budgets from 2006-2012 and see how your revenue fluctuated. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. Second, model out and scenario plan for revenue declines of 5, 10 and 15 percent. and México.

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Building a Digitally Literate Community

Tech Soup

For example, the Pueblo City-County Library in Pueblo, CO offers classes on how to use iPads and e-readers. century skills have been adopted throughout the Common Core State Standards Initiative by 45 states as of November 2012. The good news is that digital literacy is becoming part of lesson plans for K-12 students in public schools.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Use Nostalgia (old class photos) to Spark A Trip Down Memory Lane. With old class photos, you can leverage memes like “ Throw Back Thursday , like in this example from Reshet Ramah , a network of alumni from across the globe. ” 3. Many schools probably have wonderful archival photos – it’s a gold mine for engagement.

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

of America v. A federal court ruled against the Authors Guild in October 2012, finding that HathiTrust’s use of books scanned by Google was fair use under U.S. This ruling by the Supreme Court in Sony Corp. Universal City Studios, Inc., As a leading provider of accessible books to people with print disabilities in the U.S.,

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7 Ways to Honor Dr. King’s Legacy on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Saleforce Nonprofit

If it’s been a while since American history class, listen to the whole speech today. Birmingham was one of the focal points of the Civil Rights movement in 1963, since Birmingham was one of the most racially segregated cities in America. Listen to Dr. King’s Most Famous Speech. Here is a list of her essential works to read.