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MARCH 1, 2024

powell is the co-author, with Stephen Menendian, of the forthcoming book, Belonging without Othering, How We Save Ourselves and the World , with Stanford University Press.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2012

New book by @ kanter @ kdpaine amz.to/measure-networ… I’m excited because that means friends and NGO colleagues in other parts of the world can get the book! October 17 from 4-6 pm, Book Party and Discussion – hosted by ZeroDivide, Northern California Grantmakers, and the Levi Strauss Foundation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. You’ll find the 200-page book easy to read.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

7) First Book Marketplace :: fbmarketplace.org. Proceeds benefit First Book, a nonprofit that provides new books and educational resources to schools and programs in low-income communities. From books and DVDs to toys and party supplies, playtime has never been more educational and fun. 8) Getty Store :: shop.getty.edu.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

On February 16th in Los Altos, California, I shared these thoughts on Robin Seaman’s impact on the world with her family and friends at her Celebration of Life. We had just won the national contract to supply ALL disabled students in the United States, with ALL the books they needed to read to succeed in school, for free. Not 70,000.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 23, 2023

“Experiential Intelligence provides a new lens from which to view what makes you, you—and what makes your team and organization unique,” says Soren Kaplan , author of the new book, Experiential Intelligence. Book chapters 1—3 outline what Experiential Intelligence is, why it’s so important today, and how it relates to IQ and EQ.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

According to a survey by the University of California at Santa Cruz , the number of working African American business owners fell more than 40% during the pandemic—a much steeper drop than other racial groups. Black-owned businesses often face unique challenges and they’ve also been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about AI for Social Good and Nonprofits with an eye towards our next book. California Passes New Law That Bans Bots From Pretending to Real People: California Gov. We are tracking the conversation and resources about AI and Nonprofits and social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2009

I finally got a chance to meet Manny Hernandez, author written the " Ning for Dummies Book." He is founder of The Diabetes Hands Foundation, a non profit that operates two niche social networks for people touched by diabetes: TuDiabetes (in English, with close to 8,200 members) and EsTuDiabetes. Photo in Flickr. You can read more here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Multiple senators called the secretary of education asking for explanations of how earmarked funding ended up in the hands of “nobodies from California” who had never lobbied Congress. It turned out, however, that we were too quick to rejoice. We were up against immense political pressure to rescind the award.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

7) First Book Marketplace :: fbmarketplace.org. Proceeds benefit First Book, a nonprofit that provides new books and educational resources to schools and programs in low-income communities. From books and DVDs to toys and party supplies, playtime has never been more educational and fun. 8) Getty Store :: shop.getty.edu.

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JULY 3, 2023

While cracking open a book or watching a video are easy ways to learn, attending a Disability Pride event and meeting people with disabilities is also a great way to better understand the history of the Disability Rights Movement!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2010

I'm going to the Internet Archive's new office at 300 Funston in San Francisco, to attend the Books in Browsers conference. Called a friend at a PC, and they got the same misroute to 116 Sheridan Avenue, San Francisco, California 94129. Wasted about 30 minutes this morning thanks to a weird coincidence. Inquiring minds want to know.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The Marrakesh Treaty was signed last year, and now the efforts are ramping up to ratify and implement the Treaty, with the goal of helping overcome the book famine faced by people with print disabilities. WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing.

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OCTOBER 26, 2007

I was invited by Matt of the Empathy blog to participate in a Book Meme earlier this month and am just getting around to it: Total number of books I own: About 350. I never counted my books before. Last book I read: Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World by Bill Clinton.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

My social changey book club is reading Jane Goodall's, Hope for the Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink. One of her symbols is a feather from a California condor, a species which was rescued from extinction. Share Tweet

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2010

The project's goals were to work with organizations that provide opportunities for people with disabilities and digitize a million pages of books to be added to the Bookshare collection. From manufacturing wheel chairs to digitizing books was a huge change but the employees at Worth Trust were up for the challenge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

The event was hosted by Google on its campus in Mountain View, California, which is home to some of the most cutting edge technologists in the world. During the party we had a surprise video message from Stevie Wonder, a long-time Bookshare member who told us that he is using Read2Go to read accessible books from the Bookshare library. “I

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 5, 2009

We recently announced partnerships with The University of Chicago Press, the University of California Press and New York University Press, where they will be sending digital files of their books to Bookshare to be made available to people with print disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2010

An Insider Reveals How the Latest Hot Books Are Added to Bookshare’s Collection of Accessible Titles A Guest Beneblog by Liz Halperin After working for many years as a volunteer for Bookshare, I became a paid proofreader for the collection about two years ago. Since I was there to witness it, I want to tell you how it happens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Always had suggestions for someone to interview or a paper or book to read. When the book was published, she was one of the first people who posed with a photo of the book. I have had the honor of working with Stephanie since 2009 when I arrived at the foundation as Visiting Scholar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

My autographed copy of Brian Solis 's (and Deirdre Breakenridge's) new book, Putting the Public Back in Public Relationships: How Social Media is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR just arrived in today's mail. If you are a social media strategist, it's a great book to share with your senior manager. I have a hypertext brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

” Greetings from shelter in place California! My friend, John Haydon, who passed away from cancer last month, shared this one tip on how he remained optimistic in his book, Donor Care. “Eat a rainbow.’ Our family with adopted senior rescue dog, “Tigger.” We are all in this together. #8

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Another Dreamforce is in the books, and although this year’s event looked different than those in the past, it wasn’t lacking the usual entertainment, insight, and community building that we’ve come to expect from a traditional Dreamforce experience.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

With our Read2Go app, Bookshare members can now search, download and read Bookshare books and periodicals on their iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices. We’re thrilled that students and other readers who have disabilities that keep them from reading standard print can now read the same books as their peers, using the same devices.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

After her surgery, Viji left her job at the startup company Net6 and volunteered for Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic in Palo Alto, California. I heard we had a high powered finance executive volunteering on book scanning, and decided to meet her and learn more. In countries outside the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

It is a fantastic laboratory to take some of the ideas in the book and put in them into a practice. One of the themes in the book, The Networked Nonprofit , is the importance of doing experiments. Representatives from Preschool California Share Their Experiment Insights. Participant-Generated Instructional Content.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Edwin Shneidman (left) at his home in Los Angeles, California with Maurizio Pompili, who was the recipient of the 2008 Shneidman Award. Read books about mental illness and research risk factors and warning signs so you can better recognize when someone is in crisis and may need help. Agencies from within the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about AI for Social Good and Nonprofits with an eye towards our next book. Here’s an overview of the book from the authors blog. Most recently, we co-authored a policy brief for the Toda Peace Institute on the age of automation and it implications for civil society.

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MAY 6, 2021

Explaining what occurred with a few of the most massive data hacks of the 21st Century could be a book in and of itself. California became the first state in the nation to have a law go into effect concerning privacy. . In January of 2020, the Consumer Privacy Act became law in California, and it is considered the “GDPR lite.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

Geoff has moved on to working on exciting projects , including a book and Kami will continue the brand Zoetica working on strategy projects such as this important effort to keep.NGO domain in the hands of nonprofits. Starting Zoetica came on the heels of one of the most dramatic changes I made in my life in recent years.

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MARCH 1, 2023

About Women’s History Month The origins of Women’s History Month date back to 1978 when the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women created a “Women’s History Week” celebration. The commission selected the week of March 8th for their celebration to correspond with International Women’s Day.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

"Involving people in the business is the most effective way to produce an organization in which people know more, care more, and do the right things," explains Edward Lawler III, Professor, University of Southern California, as quoted in the book, 1001 Ways To Energize Employees , by author Bob Nelson.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 11, 2014

"Involving people in the business is the most effective way to produce an organization in which people know more, care more, and do the right things," said Edward Lawler III, Professor, University of Southern California, as quoted in the book, 1001 Ways To Energize Employees , by author Bob Nelson.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 20, 2016

"Involving people in the business is the most effective way to produce an organization in which people know more, care more, and do the right things," said Edward Lawler III, Professor, University of Southern California, as quoted in the book, 1001 Ways To Energize Employees , by author Bob Nelson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Published Book Three: In 2016, I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times throughout October-December as we presented dozens online webinars and guest posts and articles.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Well, that’s exactly what you get when you read the new book , Roadside MBA: Back Road Lessons for Entrepreneurs,Executives and Small Business Owners. Do you think you missed some valuable stories by having not traveled to Texas and all but one place in California? Six road trips across the U.S. we haven''t made it to yet.

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