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#GivingTuesday is almost here! NTEN Members share their campaign plans

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Many NTEN Members are taking part in #GivingTuesday this year, and we asked our Members to share their campaign plans. Lacey Helmig , Youth Volunteer Corps (YVC), is excited to participate for the first time this year. Now in its third year, #GivingTuesday has grown into a worldwide movement with over 16,000 partners.

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In Loving Memory of My Mom, Ruth D. Kanter (My Mom)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Even though I lived 3,000 miles away, I was blessed to get to spend time with her in the last five years since my Dad died. To honor her memory, I’m rais ing money for NTEN to offer diversity, local, and general scholarships for the 19NTC in Portland. She also posed for social media photos with all my books.

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Beyond the Idea Accelerator with Ann McAlpin: "Connections - Aged-Out Foster Kids and Caring Adults"

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The Idea Accelerator was designed by LimeRed Studio’s Emily Lonigro Boylan, Owner and Creative Director, and Demetrio Cardona Maguigad, Director of Strategic Design, who teamed up with NTEN to carry out the event. Read more about the Idea Accelerator and pitched projects on NTEN''s blog. How did the idea get started?

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. One of the concepts that the group designed was a strategy for collecting data from low income individuals which was identified as a key challenge for some participants who work with homeless populations.

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Small, But Mighty: A Resource for Small Nonprofit Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a member of the NTEN Board, I used this framework to help us work through our performance evaluation process. At the same time, many in the group, the Leap Ambassadors Community , were passionate about meeting the needs of small nonprofits, such as youth development programs, environmental programs, churches, arts programs, and others.

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Valentine’s Day for Nonprofits Social Media Style

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He started it because on a cold December day, he passed a homeless person on the street asking for money. a street musician, a homeless person, your favorite charity. NTEN uses February to encourage nonprofits to send a valentine to their favorite nonprofit techie. Sasha did a talk about his month-long generosity experiment.

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Looking forward to 2009

Judi Sohn

Do you want to feed the homeless or cure cancer? Donor Power Blog. Social Actions Blog. Weiner Blog. Help send me to the NetSquared Conference Okay, time for shameless begging and plugging… I’m really interested. Give books to needy children or build a performing arts center? Beth Kanter.

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