Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

That's when I was working with the New York Foundation for the Arts on its technology capacity building programs, including offline/online workshops for online skill building called SpiderSchool. I'll be in Afghanistan through part of August." You can follow her adventures in Afghanistan on her blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The Art of Leadership is a, "retreat workshop for social change leaders from the nonprofit, philanthropic, labor and socially responsible business sectors." Full disclosure: I'm involved with most of the people and projects I mentioned personally and/or professionally. I'm completely biased!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

It was a natural choice for me, as an artist, to begin holding workshops for women and girls using creativity as a way for my own self expression and dreams to emerge. In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo.

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2010

I wrote a blog post a few months ago about Fab Lab, a network of community-operated workshops springing up all over the world. I was excited about Fab-Fi , Fab Lab's name for the simple directional antennas they're using to build a mesh wireless network all over Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Good Magazine as its tagline says is for "people who give a damn" and describes itself as a publishing platform to "change the world." Hands On Network brings people together to strengthen communities through meaningful volunteer action. people on where their food comes from and how our food choices affect.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Betty Christiansen's book, Knitting for Peace: Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time , captures 28 stories of people and organizations who are using knitting to comfort, empower and heal. Book Cover from Harry N. Abrams site. knitting peace book

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

While my objective was to make positive change, when I came at it from a place that was angry, I saw - I think this has been visible to many people who have worked in social change movements - that my anger was not growing the movement. It wasn't bringing people toward us. Why do people who are not chosen end up out in the cold?

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