Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

I saw an impressive movie a while back, called "The Economics of Happiness." Blog Category: America. It's worth seeing - it's a great film, with really important things to say about what kinds of things we need to change in our economic system so that people can be happy, and find meaning in their lives. Current Affairs. Spirituality.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Central and South America. Central and South America. North America. Honolulu, HI: Extraordinary Machine: Public Access to Public Domain Movie Screening. Central and South America. Tuesday, September 2, 2014. Tuesday, September 2, 2014.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 29, 2012

He is also a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, and in February 2010, he was invited to the White House to join First Lady Michelle Obama in launching, "Let's Move!" - her signature leadership program to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity in America. I also saw a more recent profile of him this spring on Food Forward.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2014

Latin America with Maria Zaghi of NetSquared Guatemala. Philadelphia, PA: Net Tuesday Night at the Movies! Guatemala: Netsquared Regional Net2Camp for Central America. Australia and New Zealand with Stephen Blyth of NetSquared Wellington. Pacific Northwest with Eli van der Giessen of NetSquared Vancouver. Wednesday, May 7.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2021

People are very aware of the rabid fandoms around various mainstream geek culture, things like Star Wars or Marvel movies for example. Lonnie Bunch said “The Mall is where America comes to learn what it means to be an American” and I *think* museums broadly seek to do this but for humanity. Many others endured as resistance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2009

The kids were curious about the FLIP camera - and thought it would be fun for them to make movies of the house to say good bye and perhaps a little theraputic. I shared with them how I plan out my "scenes" and had them watch me shoot and make the movie - answering their questions. Then, I told them to go make a movie.

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NTEN

MAY 23, 2014

It was very tough to narrow down to the following group, but we''re thrilled to have them on board.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2015

Who needs live actors to make a Jurassic Park movie? How about this graphic novel version on big data by Al Jazeera America? Here’s an innovative trend we’d love to see in a new era of fashion: making textiles from bananas and pineapples. Who needs cotton? Here’s a DIY lego version of the cinematic classic.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Apparently so is the rest of America—Moneyball didn’t quite beat out the re-release of The Lion King, but you know Disney’s annuities on these things is never ending with millions of new kids being born every year, so it’s not really a fair compare. I call them orthogonal thinkers. They just see things differently.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

It’s America's fastest growing serious developmental disability and the cost of lifelong care can be reduced by 2/3 with early diagnosis and intervention. The patients use Windows Messenger to stay in touch with their teachers as well and Windows Media Player to watch movies and listen to music while undergoing treatment.

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Forum One

AUGUST 11, 2009

First, the Netflix Prize is an outstanding, $1 million effort to improve Netflix' algorithm at recommending movies. Second, the Sunlight Foundation hosts a series of Apps for America contests inviting web initiatives addressing public policy issues. Top tier researchers participated, eventually combining into a number of global teams.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 25, 2012

I really hesitate to use the phrase “perfect storm” here, because it has become so over-used since the movie of the same name was released more than a decade ago. Although, we serve members around the world, our average member works in the human resources department of a large company (5,000+ employees) in North America.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2012

I don’t know how many of you are old enough to remember Steve Martin in the movie “The Jerk” but there is a really funny scene where he explodes into exuberant jubilation when he realizes his name has “made” the phone book—he dances around and says, “The new phone book is here, I’m somebody now!

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 20, 2018

Whether it comes in the form of a book, a comic, a movie or a video game, we all have stories that we like and ones that we decidedly dislike. This article was originally published in Nonprofit Hub Magazine. Everyone has a favorite story. Maybe we fell in love with the characters, or maybe it was the writing, the setting or the theme.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

It’s America's fastest growing serious developmental disability. The patients use Windows Messenger to stay in touch with their teachers as well and Windows Media Player to watch movies and listen to music while undergoing treatment. and the cost of lifelong care can be reduced by 2/3 with early diagnosis and intervention.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 7, 2006

Haven't seen the movie yet. Honestly, I was deterred by my all-knowing movie source, Rotten Tomatoes. Meatpacking is some of the most dangerous work in America, but pays 24% less than an average factory job. If you go to the film, consider being part of Participate.net's Dinner and a Movie campaign. Fast Food Nation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

I'm trying to shift myself off the forward movement and into reflection mode around the America's Challenge. Jen's shares how she was engaged in the whole drama of the competition: True confession: With less than twenty-four hours left to go, I am practically obsessed with America???s " Of course you can't. m not sure why exactly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

But hunger is a serious issue in America, especially in these difficult times. First Book has teamed up with Disney to celebrate the release of "Bedtime Stories," a holiday movie. It was the first mainstream article that I saw that described people being paid to blog. Go over there and comment right now!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

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. And the hippies cheered, they clapped, and they accepted ShaNaNa as part of the rollicking youth culture sweeping North America. They were featured in the movie Grease.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2014

Suddenly, a visual distraction like a camera--innocuous in an uncrowded space--becomes as bad as someone talking in the movie theater. Thinking about all of this, I remembered Don Delillo''s beautiful bit in White Noise about the most photographed barn in America. You can''t not see their camera. You are all in the same space.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Remember Samantha, the smartphone OS in the movie Her that Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with? In just the field of journalism we now have The Intercept , Global Investigative Journalism Network , ProPublica , New America Media , Internews … need I go on? Finally, here's the sci-fi technology that is becoming reality.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

The nonprofit creates books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Organize environmental movie nights. Braided River is a Seattle-based publishing organization that is committed to inspiring support for critical conservation efforts. Cary Creative Center — Third-Place Winner.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

I agree that it is disturbing for a museum whose mission is "to be the defining museum of contemporary art" to invite amateur movie stars to curate exhibitions. I feel very strongly that a "defining museum of contemporary art" in one of the biggest cities in America should attract more than 150,000 visitors annually.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

It's $20 and 100% goes to the charity of your choice: Ashoka, City Year, Creative Commons, Donors Choose, GenerationEngage, Millennium Promise, Oceana, Room to Read, Teach for America, WITNESS, World Wildlife Fund or UNICEF. It is a big, beautiful magazine printed on thick paper with lots of photos and illustrations. I chose UNICEF.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 11, 2009

You know how Ira Glass recently broadcast his radio show This American Life live to movie theaters across North America? Next week, I'm doing something way less cool and way more convenient.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

They asked their friends to figure out how much money they might spend on a Saturday night out (dinner and movies) and contribute the money to City Harvest , a nonprofit organization in New York that rescues food from restaurants and supermarkets and delivers it to soup kitchens and other programs that feed the hungry.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2008

If Anthony Lane turned his cutting tongue from movies to museums? Political satirist PJ O'Rourke has written a maddeningly fascinating article on the Field Museum's new exhibition on Ancient Americas in the conservative publication The Weekly Standard. The Ancient Americas is a story of diversity and change--not progress.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

TV Shows + Movies: The 13th (Documentary) . Moonlight (Movie). Mudbound (Movie). Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (TV Series). . “The Answer to Police Violence is Not “Reform” It’s Defunding” Alex Vitale. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Documentary).

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

For example, organic and fair trade yogurt, or coffee, which helps the coffee growers in Latin America. For example, our music, our movies. So, it was generally focused on some social issue that was often around employment and/or to develop opportunities for farmers. The US is one of the biggest exporters of "culture products."

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Whole Whale

JUNE 5, 2020

100% of the $1.75M in proceeds they raised went to Feeding America. Virtual Movie Night. Using a fun tool like NetflixParty.com , you can set up a video chat with a timed countdown for your movie, and then watch and chat and joke about it! You can include sponsorships, as well as ticket fees, for this to mimic the movies!

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

The people in countries that are most happy--mostly small, incredibly poor countries in Central and South America--may not be as reliant on external indicators, like money and status, to feel valued, connected, and important to their communities. And one of the ways we should do so is via games and game mechanics.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Though the Hindu community in America is relatively small they are very known for their hard work and industriousness. Fifteen centuries later and we’ve got our own version of this early philanthropist in every mall and movie theater across the US. It’s a cleansing of negativity to bring good fortune and financial success.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

Examples of numbered lists include, “Five Reasons Why Conserving Wildlife is Important,” “Ten Simple Ways to Serve Your Local Community,” “Nine Powerful Stats about Domestic Violence in America,” and “Six Reasons Why You Should Read to Your Children.” Write Book and Movie Reviews. Feature New Mobile and Social Media Content.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

While our online world has opened up, the physical world, at least in America, is more suspicious, more private, and more protective of personal space than ever. What makes it okay to turn to your neighbor at a play to chat about Act 1 but prevents you from doing so at the movies? Even I find myself buying into the paranoia.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Make-A-Wish America. They’ve been mentioned in television shows and movies since their conception. A good before and after will show how your organization is making real change. Everyone has heard of the Make-A-Wish Foundation —the romantic nature of granting sick children their wishes can touch even the coldest of hearts.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Movie theater attendant. Did y’all know that popcorn at the movie theater is free but the container is not? From 2018 - 2020, she served as the Director of Communications for the Public Relations Society of America's local Hoosier chapter. Tour guide on an island. Ooh, Manly. I love that. Volunteering. Camp counselor.

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