Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Maybe you’ve glimpsed the #1 New York Times best-selling book in a store window somewhere. But chances are, by now, you’ve heard the buzz about Brandon Stanton and the internet phenomenon that is Humans of New York. At the time this post was published, over $1,188,583 have been donated.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . First Book. They focus funding on organizations that work on financial literacy for elementary and high school students (established programs only). Guitar Center.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

Many print-disabled people (people who are blind, severely dyslexic or a have a physical disability that keeps them from reading regular print books) see electronic books as a dream come true. But, we just saw Amazon fold when the Authors Guild pushed them to turn off the voice of these books: Amazon to flip on Kindle.

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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. This freed up the pages which were placed in a fast scanner.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 20, 2019

Seeing this book (circled in the above picture) in the bookstore this week reminded me of my blog post about the book and the author from 2014. Realizing the book is as relevant today as it was five years ago, here is my post from 2014: Want to be a leader who is tough? Cool under fire? Able to sense danger before it's too late?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

10X: ten times the impact. How can our existing successful programs reach ten times more people? How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger! Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine.

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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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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. students at Stanford University. 21 st Century Data Breaches.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

The status quo is that people with print disabilities are experiencing a book famine. And on the nonprofit side, to the people who try to meet the needs of the disabled, it doesn’t make economic sense to expend hundreds of dollars on each book to clear the rights. The good news is that for any Microsoft Press book that a U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I am thrilled with the response to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout as my co-author and I have been sharing the ideas on a virtual book tour during the last month. One of our hopes for the book was that it would spark conversation about the need for self-care as part of doing the work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Majora Carter is on a quest to save the world one community at a time. Education was her way out, but when she signed up for graduate studies at New York University, she returned to live with her parents and became involved in and reacquainted with her neighborhood. Naturally, she was eager to escape.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 9, 2014

A native of Oneida County, New York, Mark served in the U.S. Navy SEALs for 20 years, retiring as a commander, and holds an MBA from New York University''s Leonard N. Underlying this statement is an assumption that every human is unique and has a special reason for being here in this place and time.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 30, 2005

"For the first time I can read what I want, when I want, where I want, by myself." A great quote from a five minute video on accessible e-text books produced by college students in New York. It really delivers the message of how access to books changes the lives of students with disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2007

Amazon.com: Kindle This is the first ebook product that gives me a vision of where the book is going to go. I am imagining students with complete libraries without having to carry twenty pounds in their backpacks! By the end of Thanksgiving, I finished reading my first book, Stardust. It's comfortable to hold and to read.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. The iPad app provides free videos to K-12 students on various topics, including math, science, finance, and history. Additional Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Not only is this unjust, it’s also a huge waste of potential with serious global consequences. Millions of girls are being denied an education right at a time when it has the power to transform their lives and the world around them. She is working two jobs, one is at the Bamboo Indochine store at the airport.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Here's the letter from the editor of Matilda Ziegler Magazine, which explains why Carrie was deserving of this award: A Letter from the Editor New York City Dec. According to the Bookshare.org Web site, a $25 initiation fee and a $50 annual subscription "gives patrons access to a library of more than 30,000 books and 150 newspapers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

As told in the 12th chapter of the “Book of Judges” in the Christian bible, the Ephramites tried to blend in with the locals as they were fleeing the country. Depp’s Brasco is an undercover FBI agent deeply embedded in the New York mafia in the 1970s. Some of my students are going to use the hyphen.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 11, 2005

Whenever someone asks me if I've read a good book lately, I can never remember what I've read, so this year, I wrote down titles as I read them. But I can tell you that after reading this book, there is no way I will ever buy non-organic produce again, if I have the choice. This was the first book I read in 2005.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2016

Robert Antell and his wife, Marguerite, decided to make a break from the norm in their rural town of Perinton near the Canadian border in New York State. As an instructor, her primary areas of focus included reading, writing and literacy advocacy for students of all abilities. You can reach her at kris@causeplanet.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2010

This happened right before the holidays in December and an article by Stephanie Strom in the New York Times reported: JPMorgan Chase & Company is coming under fire for the way it conducted an online contest to award millions of dollars to 100 charities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. According to Mark Granovetter, "the strength of a tie is a combination of the amount of time, emotional intensity, the intimacy (mutual confiding) and the reciprocal services which characterize the tie" (Granovetter, p. for Vive Peru.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

The class of 27 students have been collecting pennies and donated $100 to Ohio Nature Education, a nonprofit offering environmental education programs, and secured $150 for the organization. Says Angela, "Stacy is a self-proclaimed techno-phobe, but has waded into blogging with her students, who are very excited about their project."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

I was relieved to see that they at least, presumably, respect our privacy and had this disclaimer: Notice: Pepsi will send a one-time reminder about the Pepsi "Refresh Project" to the email address you provide. Open or Closed Set of Participants: Contest sponsors need to decide ahead of time how open to be in terms of who can participate.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

It’s time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news again! Find out more on this new service here. The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. Very sophisticated for a student team. Earlier this month the U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

I'm a literary agent in San Francisco, with the Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents , and we've been in business a long time here in San Francisco. We are both from New York, but felt that California was the right place to be. It's time to do a nonfiction conference about changing the world, one book at a time.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

A new poster from the National Park Service, based on Rich Black's 2009 image. Over the past few months, I've been doing research for a forthcoming book on relevance. One of the best parts of developing a book is learning new stories. Here are three sources that have inspired me, from four activist women of color.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Of course, as soon as you have a couple of big time FBI guys and former federal prosecutors who worked on cyber-crimes speaking, there is going to be plenty of information to scare you away from ever posting anything remotely interesting about yourself online. ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

Fine Interview:Social Media Author Allison Fine Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 02:57PM | by James OMalley Award-winning author Allison Fine chats at length about nonprofits use of social media, her book Momentum , and how the Connected Age technology links everyone to your organization. She is the founder of Innovation Network, Inc. Whats next?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. How did they do it? Sometimes more!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. How did they do it? Sometimes more!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." How many times have you visited a museum site in search of a phone number or email address and woken up two hours later dizzy from the painful and ultimately unsuccessful phone system nightmare?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2007

World Without Oil ran from April 30 until July 12, during which time the central site provided a running commentary on the reactions--personal, political, financial, ecological--to a fictitio us oil shock. I can't wait to see the curriculum guides they release in September to get students playing the game. I wasn't ready.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2011

This is a question our faculty, staff, and student team asks frequently in our quest to meet our Center's mission to help build the capacity of the social sector for those who lead, manage, and support nonprofits. Through informal discussions we've had with stakeholders, it seems there are a few preferred sources of information.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

We also have a student division: STAND , which has more than 850 chapters around the world, and the students in those chapters actively organize and mobilize their communities and schools to pass legislation, to fundraise, and to really make more noise about genocide in Darfur and genocide in general. How would you answer that?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Because it was my first time meeting the students, part of the half hour was spent getting to know each other. We read a book together about tugboats before he went to lunch. I highly recommend volunteering with young people, whether they are as little as a kindergartner, or as old as a college student. 826national.org.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You can watch the video below to see a moving speech from 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, who founded the Fridays for Future movement that has seen hundreds of thousands of students striking from school across the world. But what they also tell us is there is still time, if we do act. Need to cross the ocean? So, what now?

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