NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? How do you appropriately implement them? And how do you check results? www.idealist.org.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2015

Here is Shana’s complete list of things to green light (start doing) and red light (stop doing) this year! Green Light: Embrace Your Complainers! An opportunity to listen, an opportunity to help, an opportunity to build a long-term relationship. Green Light: Bring IRL Back!

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Why do all this if you’re just having somebody spoon green beans onto a lunch tray? This builds your reputation in the community and may even get new people to volunteer. This kind of orientation also builds empathy in your volunteers for the people you serve. Teach Them About the Program, Too. About the Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2012

in schools, libraries, local governments, and nonprofits, it was tough to choose just one to profile this week, but I chose YouthBuild Boston because of my fondness for green tech. This is an after school program that is all about green jobs training and making old things new again. Making Old Buildings New and Environmental.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. He told a story that someone in one of his workshops to teach these methods asked him, “So what are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Note from Beth: The Mobilization Lab at Greenpeace recently commissioned and released this report, Beyond the First Click: How Today’s Volunteers Build the Power of Movements and NGOS. Anjali Prabhaker is a past Fellow who now builds capacity for Haiyya by coaching incoming Fellows. We make expectations very clear.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Institute for Peace 's " Building for Peace ," where the designer has layed a yellow bar chart over the banner image instead of aligning it in the right column. Incidentally, here's a lovely set of images of several Wright homes with brilliant green foliage as a backdrop. Thanks for the creative tour, @mojoguzzi!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. Dan Hicks suggested: Build #PositiveAction training—as defined in the 2010 Equality Act—to make a 'pipeline' to begin to address under-representation. We all need help to do this better.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Here are signs your nonprofit may be in the danger (red) or caution (yellow) zone, rather than the full speed ahead (green) zone: Your budget has stayed the same for quite some time or it has shrunk. There are ways to take the wonderful work you’re doing and expand your reach to teach more people, heal more people, and enrich more lives.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Photo by Green LA Girl ) 2. Teaching The Essential Blog Content Development Workshop I loved co-facilitating the Essential Blog Content Development Workshop with Elizabeth Soutter of Da Momma: Motherhood is Not for Wimps , and Julie Weckerlein of Julie and Martin. Hanging out with Siel/Green LA Girl. Siel of Green LA Girl.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

My mother taught me many things, and I feel like with every year she teaches me more – whether she knows it or not. I see this work in public maps like Open Green Map. Build your own heartspace, share the campaign, and share your love! I see this lesson in the work of 350.org.

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Care2

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Sachs highlighted the example of the Fiji Green marketing campaign, where consumers quickly learned that Fuji’s practices weren’t "green" at all. What do you stand for that you can teach your audience and that will resonate with them. Sachs said that this cost the Fuji brand millions of dollars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Recently, I’ve been reading the ideas from The Presencing Institute (PI), an action-research community that “creates social technologies, builds capacities, and generates holding spaces for profound societal renewal.” One the techniques they teach and apply is called “ Shadowing.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

You also need to challenge participants thought processes and stimulate curiosity about what you are teaching. This includes meeting and greeting people, setting up the room for interaction, getting people to move around, to be actively involved with the content, and appreciating learners. Pass the Ugly Doll in Australia. 13CU #netnon.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2016

Sustainability advocates are now starting to have success showing corporate leaders just how costly it is to run a business without green, environmentally friendly practices in place. For example, while many businesses have resisted building more energy efficient buildings, it's now clear that doing so reduces their costs over time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. Example: Volunteer Match's Engaging Volunteers blog is running a series about Boomer Engagement: Build Your Organization's Capacity, Even in Times of Scarcity. Share your challenges and successes.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Fleming's techniques teach you how to acquire customers faster and how to create what he calls legitimate brand loyalty -- the type that helps to keep your business thriving. Fleming explains that it's critical that you build a rich and complex backstory about your company for your customers.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

When librarian Dianne Connery came to the library a few years ago, she found a classic small town library situated in a converted post office building with the requisite institutional green paint job. They recruited a local volunteer to teach the kids Adobe InDesign to lay out the publication. She immediately got to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

What investments can the Brainerd Foundation make over the next five years to help build an effective infrastructure of advocacy that builds power for conservation that will endure beyond the foundation’s sunset? To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Common dashboard components include pie charts, thermometers, and red/yellow/green traffic light-style graphics. A monthly meeting is a great way teach them the connection between their numbers and the organizational mission, build a mutually trusting relationship, and get valuable feedback for further improving the reports.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Adobe’s software donation programs through TechSoup help organizations design powerful print collateral, create video accounts of their successes, build their web presence, and more. The Foundation's community grants program has two focus areas: Arts and Creativity. Youth Services.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2006

They were brought together by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights' Reclaim the Future program to talk about how to make Oakland a model city that uses the growing green economy to lift its low-income residents out of poverty. are going to make Oakland the new Silicon Valley for green capital."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

Cheryl Dorsey, the President of Echoing Green , a nonprofit that provides seed funding and support to social entrepreneurs, talked about how providing capital for social innovation can: Provide incentive for individual and collective engagement around social problems. Barriers to entry: The government prescribes a lot of requirements (i.e.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2011

This piece is part of an occasional series we do at GreenTech to profile leaders in the Green IT field. publication, Green IT For Dummies. There are now many general books on green IT, but Green IT For Dummies remains one of the most readable and practical introductions to the field for people in small and medium sized offices.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 8, 2021

This post is the third in a series designed to teach the art of nailing the perfect pitch. We build community gardens. We teach nutrition and cooking. Show the barren field that existed where your green outdoor classroom now lives, and demonstrate how this new green space has improved the community and the environment.

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Classy

JULY 13, 2021

Learn how to build, design, and innovate upon an effective digital fundraising program with this book, which includes everything from email marketing best practices to digital advertising strategies, to systems to future-proof your fundraising. . By Alison Green and Jerry Hauser. Download the 2021 State of Modern Philanthropy Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Last December, I watched Twitter turn into a sea of frozen green peas to support Susan Reynolds in her fight against breast cancer and to raise money for research in her honor. I acquired my love of my words from my mom, who started teaching me to read when I was three, and who still, at age 84, delights in beating me at word games.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

My two closest peers in California have both gotten MacArthurs (Victoria Hale this year and David Green two years ago). Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? It’ll be more like having a rainbow garden – a row of carrots, a row of corn, a row of strawberries, a row of collard greens, and so on. Creating, Building, and Sustaining Nonprofit Commu. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

They were normal kids, except they lived in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood of Chicago, where the role models and life experiences were anything but what normal kids in most parts of America grow up with. The Cabrini Green neighborhood has a high concentration of poverty, many people living on welfare, and strong street gang involvement.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Thursday, October 28, 2010 How To Be A Green Leader You can be a green leader at work and help save the planet and money for your business, by following these practices and instilling these habits with your employees: Photocopiers: Use the "standby" button on your copiers and that will lighten your energy load by 70 percent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and preparation. Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. Michael Stein has an interview with Jonathan Coleman about his success building a donor base on Facebook. Which one worked best?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Golf Tournament Bring together avid golfers and local philanthropists—in many cases, they’re one and the same—for a day on the greens. A charity golf tournament won’t just raise money and build excitement for your cause, it can also be a pillar of your major donor recruitment plan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

It was very simple, nutrient-dense, leafy greens, root vegetables, and fresh fruit from the trees in their front yards, and nuts from the trees in their yard and the neighbors' yards. I always encourage people that if you have available green space, grow your own food. It's said that some of the Gumbo Zavs use up to nine greens.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The more successful you are, the more you have to give back." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2010

Friday, August 6, 2010 Lets Build A List Lets build a list of the most important attributes of a good leader, and lets only use one word (or a hyphenated word) at a time to describe each attribute. Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done.

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