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JULY 3, 2023

While cracking open a book or watching a video are easy ways to learn, attending a Disability Pride event and meeting people with disabilities is also a great way to better understand the history of the Disability Rights Movement! Donate to support their mission here. Donate to support their mission here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2010

I now feel even I can help people living in America!!” The project's goals were to work with organizations that provide opportunities for people with disabilities and digitize a million pages of books to be added to the Bookshare collection. She is off next month on maternity leave but is certain that she’ll be back as soon as she can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about AI for Social Good and Nonprofits with an eye towards our next book. Facilitated by Lucy Bernholz, the panelists discussed how data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models affect poor and working-class people in America. More on the new law here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

of America v. The Chafee Amendment allows authorized nonprofit entities like Benetech to create accessible versions of copyrighted books without the need to request permission from publishers (or pay a royalty) and then to distribute these versions exclusively to people with qualifying disabilities. Universal City Studios, Inc.,

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NTEN

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I was named to the inaugural class of Distinguished Fellows of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) in 2017, became a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) in 2001, and have traveled all over North America teaching fundraising and nonprofit management. What are your top three apps/ books/ movies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

Since I had already had purchased a copy, I did a book giveaway. It was the first book I read on blogging. It thought it might do some good in another part of the world rather than collecting dust on my bookshelf -- I've internalized my learning from the book. So, I used the random.org random number generator and 7 came up.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

(iPad, iPhone, MacOS) is a student planner that helps you keep track of your class schedule, track your grades and GPA, manage homework assignments, and create an interactive calendar. ClassTalk was made through Code for America , a nonprofit that connects app developers with civic leaders to solve city problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

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. This is a book giveaway that John Haydon did for my book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.

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JANUARY 3, 2011

The free agent fundraiser is described in detail in Allison Fine and Beth Kanter's book The Networked Nonprofit. However, there is a new class of free agent out there, specific to social networks: " the free agent community.".

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Writing and illustrating stories about my gerbils, Floppsey and Moppsey, and reading them to the class. Writing a report on wolves and taking a picture with a Polaroid of a wolf in a book so it would look like the wolf was in my backyard (: Being the lead in the school play, Really Rose.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

America didn’t seem like such a mess in the foreign media. That said, I often joke to friends that when I retire from online activism/communications I am going to open a print book and stationary store that serves martinis, plays Pandora, and offers free handwriting classes. VIDEO: HTML All Writers Need to Know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Note from Beth: Last Spring, Allison Fine and I did an evaluation report for the Case Foundation on the America’s Giving Challenge 2009. Executives at world-class brands such as Ford Motor, Red Bull, Google and Starbucks opened their marketing playbooks to help Steppenwolf learn from their experiments. By Patricia Martin, 2010.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Take a look at how HikeFor.com is helping Donate Life America raise funds. Ask for donations in exchange for attendance and have a yoga teacher lead a class for a cause. Provide water station stops and set up a picnic at the end for people that raise money. Use a crowdfunding strategy or strategic peer-to-peer asks. Be #UnSelfie–ish.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 16, 2014

As I prepped for what I wanted to say to the next graduating class of Public Allies Arizona, I took a queue from my own days as an ally and reflected. aka Inclusiveness) We all have those friends who just seem to know everyone & have their social calendars booked months in advance. You have waaaay too many friends. Get another!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

We had an incredible team of women tech advisers from Silicon Valley, all experts, and who taught classes on how to use various tools such as Google, Canva, and Indiegogo, complete with detailed work books with exercises. The program is called Tech2Empower and you can learn more about it here.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

" In this spirit, New Heights provides everything from tutoring services to curriculums, a library with more than 3,000 books, field trips, and online classes. New Heights is also currently working on a book that describes its journey as a nonprofit. Inspiring Optimism Through Results. " Working on a Dream.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of the newly released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. For example, the Latin America Work Group’s website is www.lawg.org , but when the organization was setting up its profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, “lawg” was not available on all three sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2006

I've created a book with lots of photos and will do circle style on the rug - the interactive lecture. In Harry's class, there is a large computer and I can put the images in powerpoint: Inquiry questions: How do we celebrate New Year's in America? Here's the lesson plan, approximately 1 hour: 1. How it different in Asia?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

Yesterday, the local paper in Santa Cruz published a great article about my new book, The Art of Relevance. The boards were in storage for 90+ years before historians discov- ered they were the boards in the first known record of surfing in the Americas. I loved the piece. The boards became rock stars in Santa Cruz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To Are there any web resources or books that you think I should send over to him to read? I know it is difficult without being there. The Sharing Foundation's Computer School was opened in 2006.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

million people through national media outreach, including an appearance on "Good Morning America." New Heights provides families with tutoring services , a library with more than 3,000 books, field trips, and online classes. The organization's project on Last Polar Bear reached 26.5

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

This year's speaker was journalist, Samantha Power , who received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. Kristi Gee describes the program in her post, " Everyone is a teacher and a learner ": We take classes all day Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

If you are a college student, or someone in career transition, who wants to find work that fulfills your big vision for a better world, I have a few words of advice, and some books to recommend. Research classes/workshops in a skill I want to learn. Boy, do I wish this book had been around when I was in college. My advice: 1.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Disabilities like dyslexia, vision loss, or a brain injury or physical disability that gets in the way of using a printed book. Before we started, blind people were read to, or had tapes of people reading the book sent to them in the mail – they physical snail mail. But wait, there’s more! My second example is just a year old.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

His first book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , which he co-authored with Anna Lappe , won a 2007 Nautilus Award for Social Change. You have a new book coming out, Vegan Soul Kitchen. As I say in the book, the recipes are ripe for interpretation. Kellogg Foundation. Why did you decide to write a vegan cookbook?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Actually, I think that the two of you combined now hold the record for the most books written by a Bloomerang webinar guest. If I was in the office, I would hold up Harvey’s great new book on monthly giving, which is behind my desk and really awesome. So monthly giving if you’re interested in that, please, get that book.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2005

A few of the books he recommended were: Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough Biomimicry by Janine Benyus Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken (I read this years ago. It is a GREAT book). The majority of donations are from working class, middle class and poor people). The Seven Things You Need to Know to Raise Money 1.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." QUESTIONS ABOUT RESISTANCE TO CHANGE 5.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." QUESTIONS ABOUT RESISTANCE TO CHANGE 5.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. The conference will showcase NTEN's new book about mission-driven technology. You can even add a good deed widget for your site.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

We send each other books. This is from Volunteers of America again. So this is a Thanksgiving pack from Volunteers of America in 2019. “With the holiday season fast approaching, your Volunteers of America area has been working overtime to help struggling families through the many crisis caused by COVID-19.”

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2009

Feeding America has launched a Causes campaign, sponsored by Kellogg's. It's not your typical Cause campaign , though: Kellogg's will make a matching donation of 15% of ALL donations made to Facebook Causes between midnight June 18th and midnight June 19th to Feeding America. " Way to be world-class, Blackbaud!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

This is also a strategy of America’s favorite past-time–denying class consciousness, avoiding awarenss of class stratification, living a head-down passive-aggressive consumer’s existence that sublimates resentment and confusion into blogging, even thinking that this will somehow change the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

For the last three years, I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with the Smithsonian Latino Center as part of the Educators Advisory Council, in preparation for the forthcoming Molina Galleries , which will focus on celebrating the contributions of Latinos in the History of America. Swarupa Anila, and Ken Morris. I look forward to that.

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See3

OCTOBER 17, 2009

From Colombia, South America… we are very far from a synagogue. My “official&# classes begin in 6 weeks with the Rabbi in Miami, Florida. The downloadable prayer book so I could follow along was terrific. TX and via Skype and Yuuguu, watching the service with my 95-year old father who is in NY!! Bless You !!!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

Whether it's my posters in the street, or books that I'm publishing that are getting out to bookstores, or workshops, or my speaking in different universities with different young people, I really see art as a way of changing our communities. We can no longer be America-centric. Every single topic you can imagine was on there.

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