Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Whether you’ve been using social media for years, months, or days or you have yet to get started, the information and strategies in this chapter can save you a lot of time and frustration. If your nonprofit is on the right track with social media, then you’ll notice an increase in the metrics from month to month over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. as a first time donor. They have successfully used Facebook to identify and cultivate donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Take for example deploying 200 sensors throughout the Brazilian rainforest to measure and visualize the effects of climate change. But as Daniel Ben-Horin said, “Our theory of change states that software products are necessary, but not sufficient for empowerment of social change organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

In addition to the tactical and skills instruction we did with the social media staff on Day 3 and Day 4, we also covered how to manage time and work efficiently – and how to best provide support for the strategies. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

This project began as a Code for America project in Detroit. For example, Detroit's Planning Department used the app to conduct a survey of commercial land in the city. Did you know that San Francisco renters are seven times more likely to get buyout offers than eviction notices? Video : Code for America.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

ChristinasWorld : 2) Network building is about communicating, telling stories, & building trust over time. Question #2: what are some of the best examples you’ve seen? elliotharmon Here’s a good example from just today of the wrong way to use social media [link]. realize_ink : Q3: empowerment & ownership.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

As time has gone on, my attention has shifted from the tactic of participation to the outcome of building community. At the same time, “identity” doesn't always mean demographics. For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

What we really believe is that there is a kind of new consciousness to consumerism in the United States, and as consumerism is sort of evolving, people are really thinking about how to purchase or consume, but at the same time make a constructive impact on the world and express their social or other kinds of values into the world. We believe.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

So, for example, we just did a really powerful training in the Philippines, where our regional leaders there hosted a training on a water filter. For example, some of our women in Africa and India are interested in taking the ideas and the best practices that came out of this training into their regions. How did this trajectory look?"

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Yet, because of their designation as independent contractors—that is, because they are not defined as full-time employees of a company—platform workers have very few protections or benefits. Similarly, there has been a global rise of worker-managed platform cooperatives in response to the rise of platform companies.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

I thought, "What would happen if we began the process of aligning our heartfelt intentions, our energy, our time, and also our money to be able to benefit some particular causes?" But every time I would leave a workshop, I would leave with this haunting feeling of, "Now what?" For example, we put together the 2008 Seva Challenge.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

It's long, but I hope you'll take time during your coffee or lunch break to read, or listen to her inspiring words. I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. How do you know that you are making a difference or an impact; how do you measure that?

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