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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

Blue Avocado

Having been the only one in my business school class who chose a career in the nonprofit sector, I was able to use my MBA training to lead change and turnarounds. This proved to be a wonderful way to share nationally AbilityFirst’s empowerment philosophy. After five years, we finally balanced the budget.

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What I Learned About Online Donor Engagement from Fundraisers in Brasil

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I presented a master class on The Networked Nonprofit as pre-conference session, a mini-workshop on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , and a plenary session on engaging donors moderated by Macelo Jambeiro, a talented digital strategist that works for an agency called Alder & Lang and previously with Change.org. Empowerment.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. iPad, iPhone, MacOS) is a student planner that helps you keep track of your class schedule, track your grades and GPA, manage homework assignments, and create an interactive calendar. Image: App Inventor Workshop ( Flickr ).

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Rethinking Community Advisory Boards: the Story of C3

Museum 2.0

CON: can make people feel like second-class board members instead of equal leaders in the organization. CON: can feel disconnected from the primary governance of the museum or can feel like a second-class board overall. We said no, tearfully, to several awesome people who could not make it to the kick-off workshop.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. During these workshops I felt a peace that seemed to resonate around the room. Traveling Postcards workshops are easy and fun for everyone.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His technique is similar to what I’ve being doing for years, but I haven’t used real-time learning analytics : Before he class, he assigns a pre-reading from the textbook. Mazur uses technology,a web-based monitoring system where students submit answers to questions about the reading prior to coming to class.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

When you're in a moment where everybody's also feeling the crunch, you know, everyone talks about the squeezed middle class, this is an opportunity, where we can start talking about how these issues not only have affected people who are the most affected, but they're starting to affect everyone now. Participate in workshops, lead a workshop.