Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

How many of you report to the Finance Director? That’s what lead them to write the book. He showed a series of photos from the Common Ground campaign for homeless to get homes – before and after photos. Ruck Sack, DoSomething, Ada Jenkins, They have the instigator gene – they have the ability to make it happen.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

How many of you report to the Finance Director? That's what lead them to write the book. He showed a series of photos from the Common Ground campaign for homeless to get homes - before and after photos. Ruck Sack, DoSomething, Ada Jenkins, They have the instigator gene - they have the ability to make it happen.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Note from Beth: Last month during one of our book talks for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , ” at TechSoup Global, Rachel Weidinger from Upwell came up to say hello. Are people more compassionate to animals, more generous towards the homeless? Tide Report: www.upwell.us/tidereport.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

.&# One of the topics we looked at was the issue of how to respond appropriately to negative comments and trolls. Samantha Horoschak from the Gathering Place (an agency that servces homeless women) shared their experience dealing with a troll on Facebook, illustrating best practices when the troll is not some random stranger.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t think we want homeless shelters, food pantries, mental health organizations, etc., Secondly, I certainly saw that over the five years I was the IT Director at the Coalition for the Homeless that our clients were increasingly interested in initiating and maintaining electronic communications with our case workers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

In 1977 he wrote an editorial for the Sunday paper, and at that time he said, "I believe that books can change the world." It's time to do a nonfiction conference about changing the world, one book at a time. We also have Ernest Callenbach , who wrote the first book on the environment, Ecotopia. laughing] And what else?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

I recently posted my interview with Steve Williams, the Executive Director and co-founder of POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights on the Big Vision Podcast. Steve Williams: When I was in college I did a lot of service work around homelessness issues. Britt Bravo: Have you always done this kind of work?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Introduce a Book. For example, a nonprofit whose mission is to provide food and supplies for the homeless might create a registry with nonperishable foods, shower products, vitamins, and other useful products. Introduce a Book. Try introducing a book about your organization’s mission before Giving Tuesday. Accept Pledges.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! In the early 1920s, Dorothy Arzner was one of a handful of working female directors as the industry transitioned from silent films.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 6, 2021

A team member waits on the executive director for approval. Or the executive director spends hours building a presentation when a freelancer could have done it. Or how about the books that you had delivered to the office instead of shipping them directly to course participants? This is the nonprofit waste of all wastes.

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

If you’re in the Chicago, New York, or San Francisco are, check out volunteer opportunities at Upwardly Global: [link] NTEN’s Membership Director Megan Keane in San Francisco helped to manage the One Brick volunteer event at a small nonprofit called At the Crossroads (ATC) , which does outreach to homeless youth. check it out: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

The government run “Remand Houses” are shelters for homeless youth who are runaways, orphans, facing domestic violence at home, or too young to go to jail for a crime. Remand House staff and director (right). I got to observe the director in action. But it doesn’t mean that you can’t be strategic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

There is always a conundrum in measuring social change movements as well as networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children. What are the paths to the more easily counted tangible results?

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2016

" In the case of wanting to improve your financial reporting to funders, "doers" are the people who enter the data, run the reports, close the books, etc. This post was written by Peggy Duvette, director of social impact, NetSuite.org. We like to call these two groups of people "doers" and "deciders."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Are there actually really any fewer homeless people? But I think the jury is still out, at least from my perspective, on whether or not this sea change in communication has actually resulted in very much on-the-ground social change. Did MoveOn actually manage to help elect someone more progressive? Is the environment any cleaner?

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Board fundraisers – Your nonprofit board of directors is the governing body of your organization. John Center for Homeless Men recently did their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent , with some of their participants raising over $10,000 in their house party.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

You hear them speak, or you read their book, or you listen to your podcast, and then you generally write to that person, or you go up to them, rush them at the end of a speech and say, "I'm a student, I want to get involved." A lot of them were books like, The Starfish and the Spider , The Purpose-Driven Church , and Blessed Unrest.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 22, 2021

The transparency of this information allows everyone in your organization to stay on the same page—management, development directors, program directors, the board, etc. Once your books and chart of accounts are set up properly, you’re ready to analyze key metrics to help drive outcomes. Why is this important?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

The speakers were Alli Chagi-Starr, who is the Co-Founder of Art in Action ; Ilyse Hogue, the Campaign Director for MoveOn.org ; Melinda Kramer, the Founder and Director of Women's Earth Alliance ; and Reem Rahim, the Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing for Numi Tea. I am the Campaign Director at MoveOn.org. We are a 3.5

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