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APRIL 8, 2014

This week is National Volunteer Week ! To recognize the tireless work of volunteers that support the nonprofit sector, we’ll be publishing a blog post every day this week to celebrate their contributions. Today we give a hearty THANK YOU to our 501 Tech Club leaders.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, Ning and an internet thinker (and billionaire), wrote a post today on his blog called Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch. He shows vividly how the New York Times business has eroded, how their ad revenues are way down, circulation is down, etc. Sulzberger, Jr.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In this second blog in a two-part series, we share key facts and figures about U.S. California and New York have the most unions in the dataset, with 3,790 and 3,777 organizations respectively. Unions can vary dramatically in size (partially due to the local vs. national structure we explained last week). Financial data.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2011

Last week, I had the opportunity to present at the 2011 Volunteer Management for Nonprofits Conference here in New York. National Theatre screws up, what we can learn from mistakes. Blog Posts. Please add your favorite blog posts or examples to the list, too! 100,000 in 3 Days: Interview about #TeamAutism.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 2012

Death Valley National Park. Grand Canyon National Park. New York, NY (family). I'll also probably do a fair bit of blogging as well. Blog Category: America. (Maybe it should be Epic Cross Country Trip, 2012, since it's far, far from the first one I've done. I've now lost count.) Sedona, AZ. Roswell, NM.

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Candid

AUGUST 2, 2023

When a disaster strikes, individuals, communities, philanthropy, and entire nations often rise to the occasion, providing relief and humanitarian aid. Header image: Smoke from wildfires in Quebec, Canada shrouds New York City on Wednesday, Jun 7, 2023. The post Is climate change action the new face of natural disaster relief?

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MARCH 7, 2011

Frank , does internet marketing and strategy at Blackbaud , blogs at NetWits ThinkTank and guest blogs at Mashable.com , All his efforts are focused on helping non-profits use the Internet for fundraising, marketing, communications and community building. Ramya blogs regularly at www.citizentube.com. You coming?

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

This article in the New York Times provides some good advice. National/International Organizations: Team Rubicon: Team Rubicon provides disaster relief and uses the skills of veterans. These are my personal picks, but the New York Times has published this larger list of charities. Local Charities. Crowdfunding.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 2012

Death Valley National Park. Grand Canyon National Park. New York, NY (family). I'll also probably do a fair bit of blogging as well. Blog Category: America. (Maybe it should be Epic Cross Country Trip, 2012, since it's far, far from the first one I've done. I've now lost count.) Sedona, AZ. Roswell, NM.

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Qgiv

MAY 1, 2023

After the country’s bicentennial celebrations, Jew approached Representative Frank Horton of New York with the idea to create a month to recognize Asian Pacific Americans. By that time, there were 1.5 million Asian Americans in the U.S. and the population more than doubled over the next ten years to 3.7 million people.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 17, 2011

The Corporation for National and Community Service , using the Current Population Survey (CPS), reported that by 2020 more than 13 million older Americans will volunteer — a 50 percent increase. These findings echoed those of the national PSID survey. New York: Simon & Schuster. more hours per year on average.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Inspired by a session on busting organizational silos through digital storytelling delivered by the See3 team at the most recent Nonprofit Technology Conference, the National Institute for Reproductive Health is using its web content to move out the silos and bring in the stories. Notice and lift up the bright spots.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2007

Foundation Testing Potential of Philanthropy via Internet - New York Times National Feed - GainesvilleSun.com: "Foundation Testing Potential of Philanthropy via Internet 12:00 am, December 13, 2007The Case Foundation is embarking on an effort to test the potential of citizen-led philanthropy via the Internet.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

As a community organizer and network weaver myself, I am incredibly excited by the #OccupyWallStreet movement that started in New York just over three months ago now (on September 17th) in response to a failing federal economy and political process that impact local, national, and international markets.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

I recently had the opportunity to present a webinar for the National Center for Media Engagement , focused on community-driven engagement, and present a session at the Public Media Development and Marketing Conference , talking about building a social media strategy. Blog posts: How to: Create a Listening Dashboard. Defining Community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I'm sitting in the press area at the Presidential Forum on Service at Columbia University in New York City. You can watch the Presidential Forum on Service on CNN, or streaming live on the event host's site, Service Nation. I'll be blogging from both events. Check out the speaker list.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Construction of the statue had been completed the year before in France, but efforts to construct a pedestal in New York ground to a halt. Efforts to appropriate money in state and national legislatures were defeated. Ironically, he had vetoed a bill that would have provided $50,000 for the pedestal as governor of New York.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2010

New York City. Moderated by Stephanie Strom of the New York Times. The 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. I also want to thank everyone who has written about the ideas in the book: Social Action Learning: Touching the Hand of Those in Need Coolcat Teacher Blog, Vicky Davis. June 25, 2010.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

He has appeared in the New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , Town and Country , O, the Oprah Magazine and other national media. He is also a writer and photographer who has traveled to over 120 countries and has run marathons on seven continents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

National eXtension Conference: March 26-27th. There’s many other great conferences this month — for example – if you are in New York City, I would not miss the Social Media for Social Good event on March 17th. If not, look for wrap up posts on my blog. Conferences'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Many blogHers, like Rebeca at the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day.    But, on Friday, my blog turned from red to pink!    Maybe more women in the nonprofit technology space will turn their blogs pink!! .  What color is your blog? 

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Earlier this year, the Network for Nonprofit Technology Solution Providers (NNTSP) organized as part of TechSoup Global, combining their resources to create a national network of local technology capacity-builders serving the nonprofit sector. National Donations Management Network D.C. National Donations Management Network New Jersey.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

Recently Target settled out of court with the National Federation of the Blind about its accessible website after Target suffered a couple of reverses in the court case against them. in his New York Times essay Kindle Swindle? A recent example of this was web site accessibility. Roy Blount Jr.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). New Report: 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study | NTEN – "A high unsubscribe rate is bad, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Through projects like the Games and Learning Publishing Council and the National STEM Video Game Challenge ( [link] ), the Cooney Center explores the power of games to advance learning and engage vulnerable students. In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Blog: BigCatRescue.org?/Blog. We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. But it’s during the walk around the block or staring out the window of the Acela to New York when we can thaw out the brain freeze and go for the breakthrough.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

NEWS Below is a roundup of blog posts and podcast interviews I've published since my last Have Fun Do Good Link Love (where did the month go?): Blog Action Day is October 15th. 4 Steps for Selling Your Art: Interview with Alyson B. Change.org is hiring bloggers. This year's theme is climate change.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 23, 2021

Dick Weiss is a sportswriter and columnist who has covered college football and college and professional basketball for the Philadelphia Daily News and the New York Daily News. He has received the Curt Gowdy Award from the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and is a member of the national Sportswriters Hall of Fame.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

I'm giving a talk about blogging at the meeting of the Marin Branch of the California Writers Club tomorrow at the Book Passage in Corte Madera. Forgive me if you've seen a lot of these links before, and please feel free to add more examples of blogs about writing, or by writers who publish in print, as well as online, in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 Jumo setup their offices in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood. Chris Hughes brought in Kirsten Titus as Managing director of Jumo. So What and Who Cares.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 6, 2011

We've covered serious gaming before on this blog and at events hosted by TechSoup. As more nonprofits are looking towards technology to create effective social change, I wanted to take this time to present some exciting events taking place at this year's festival from June 20 - 22 in New York City.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

He has appeared in the New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , Town and Country , O, the Oprah Magazine and other national media. He is also a writer and photographer who has traveled to over 120 countries and has run marathons on seven continents.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

That's how I feel about joining NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month). will post once a day on their blog. I'm hoping this blogging challenge will help me figure out the next step in its evolution. According to the September 1999 New York Times article, Route to Creativity: Following Bliss or Dots?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

The goal is to collect 4 million actions (photos of hands raised, likes on their Facebook campaign page, etc) and present the collective actions to the United Nations Secretary General and the world donor community urging them to put girls’ education as their priority. The photo above is Leng Sopharath.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2008

Check out Dave Eggers' recent Op -Ed in the New York Times , "Dropping the Torch" about the event. April 13 Join STAND, Amnesty International, GI-Net, and Save Darfur on the National Mall in Washington, DC for a rally at the White House on the Global Day for Darfur. By writing this blog post, I am doing what I can.

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