Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States. … Read More

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Mary Mwende told us about her journey from Mombasa, Kenya, to being one of ten girls chosen for the Global Give Back Circle , a mentoring and empowerment program. Peter has extensive international experience in Latin America and Africa and discussed the problems and solutions he sees from the ground.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

While it’s always important to expand your staff when necessary, there are also opportunities for you to help current employees become more efficient. These programs help your staff members develop skills that can be applied at your organization for more efficient processes and a productive work environment. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate. Accordingly, U.S.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

With this in mind, we recently took measures to evolve our community engagement platform, giving people access to a broad set of tools to help them engage and build purpose beyond their day-to-day roles. Furthermore, in 2019 we helped launch a mobile food pantry that will seek to support hard-to-reach communities. Tools of Engagement.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. As more tablets and smartphones are making their way into the classroom, it makes sense that there are a number of apps aimed at helping young people with their education and job preparedness. iStudiez Pro. Apps Made by Youth.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Areas served: New York metropolitan area and surrounding counties. Areas served: US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. I coached this participant, with the help of the translator on getting her brand page set up! This helps the interpreters prep. Here is what they shared: 1.)

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Areas served: New York metropolitan area and surrounding counties. Areas served: US.

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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. They enlisted help from board members on Twitter, but being organized with a plan and timeline for asks was critical to their success.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

This will help you stay focused and give you a baseline against which you can monitor your progress. 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. To build your online brand?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

SAP is helping to make a difference in the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup. Their business intelligence products let organizations create interactive reports and presentations, while their cloud-based tools help enable group decision making. Making Social Investments.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

This project began as a Code for America project in Detroit. No Place Like Home uses an API from the real estate website Zillow to help tenants determine what a fair amount to vacate their apartment is. Helpful Tools. This app was the winner of a Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund and Capital One hackathon.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

I’ve tried to pull out some of the relevant tweets from the Twitter stream to help follow the flow of the conversation in case you missed it. annanten : social media is here to help you empower your followers with a story to create powerful activists for your cause. Specific goals help focus. realize_ink : Q1.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

Tourists can’t help us build community in Santa Cruz County if they are only in town for a day. Focusing local helps us define our community by identity. HOW (slides 24-42) There are three “tracks” to our theory of change: individual empowerment, social bonding, and social bridging. Let’s start with empowerment.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2009

Today is Blog for Choice Day 2009 , an event organized by NARAL Pro-Choice America. This kind of constituent empowerment effort as an organizing strategy is smart. And that I'm able to help them do it! Individual bloggers sign up and commit to devote at least one blog post on January 22 to the topic of choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Even more importantly, the practice of connecting measurement and decision-making will help organizations improve practice and results, and document value. But on Day 2, we shared a famous dance from America (The Chicken Dance) and made everyone do it after lunch so they were energized for the afternoon.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. Anyone with a desire to enact change, empower women and girls, and help battle oppression is invited to share their voice and join us.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Constituent Empowerment Honorable Mention: Sierra Club and American Cancer Society Winner: Children International Used TeamRaiser to recruit new sponsors and recuited 5,000 sponsors since 2005 and sponsored over 560 children. Use of Convios multi-lingual tools helped CI reach out to both English and Spanish speakers.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

After a decade of steady development, Cloud for Good sought to continue to give back to the amazing communities that helped us get to where we are today. Cloud for Good has helped thousands of organizations create transformational value through the Salesforce platform. I can’t say enough about the help we received, pro bono.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

They help people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. . The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. . Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (TV Series). Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)— SURJ has various local chapters. Find yours here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

While I faced a difficult decision culling winners from the forty focused initiatives described in the entries, I selected the following based on their innovative and courageous approaches to a variety of social issues, from new types of housing for the underserved, to animal welfare, to women’s empowerment. We’re the Safe America Foundation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

It could be training in information and communication technology, or it could be a training on a local water filter that would be helpful for people to bring to their communities. Melinda: Well, it might be helpful to explain the origin of Women's Global Green Action Network, because it helps to describe how we are structured.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

So it really helps connect you, as the person purchasing this product, to the sense of impact that you are making not only through your purchase but also on that community through its sustained work. We entered into this thinking about, "How do we really help create stronger wage standards in informal markets?"

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

SEIU supported Coworker.org , a digital political advocacy organization that lobbies for policy change and helped create the Workers’ Lab. Connections between labor unions and industries especially impacted by the platform economy have helped cooperatives come into being. For instance, union leaders such as Larry Williams Jr.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. MomsRising :: @ MomsRising.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

"We want to support anyone who is interested in engagement, but we want to help them do it in a way that is healthy for them, creates community, and creates longevity, so that everyone wins, and no one gets burnt out or sick. The rice is used to help feed the children at CCF. That is not what service should be about.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

They help us by going to visit the groups, by recommending groups to us, and by talking about some of the broader challenges that face women in the particular context that they are in. What are those issues or areas right now that you are seeing really need the most help? Could I make a contribution?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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