Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2012

After the ACE leadership training, I had the opportunity to spend a day in Kigali. I volunteered to do a Social Media and Professional Networking workshop for second year students at the Akilah Institute for Women. One Student, Giselle, has used Razoo to help raise her travel funds to a conference in the United States.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2017

are unemployed or considerably underemployed despite having worked as engineers, doctors, scientists, accountants, and nonprofit professionals in their home countries. Upwardly Global, also known as "UpGlo," is working to combat this disparity. college-educated immigrants in the U.S. It provides skilled immigrants to the U.S.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2023

Develop a standard Library Giving Day pitch and train your staff and volunteers to share it. These should be true success stories with local characters and positive outcomes to showcase the amazing work your library is doing for the community. No matter the “theme,” each time you post or email on Library Giving Day, state your mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

There is a large number of people online and it comes as no surprise that there are online classes, misunderstandings, reputations damaged, and public relations disasters. People and organizations that work on social change are not immune. Andrea’s book is filled with practical information on how deal with the situation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Reflections on an internship with Bookshare.org in Chennai, India Made possible through support from the Amherst College Center for Community Engagement Anna Reid, religion major, class of 2010 Anna Reid with employees of Worth Trust, a South Indian organization that provides vocational training and employment for people with disabilities.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

That’s right, all month long, our members are sharing take aways, case studies, and best practices that they have learned from their work. It takes more than trainings to put technology to work for your cause, it also takes a supportive community. Knowledge sharing is one of our community’s greatest strengths.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Connect2Compete (C2C) is a project to supply low-cost broadband Internet, low-cost computers, and free training to as many as 100 million "offline" Americans. It is part of an ongoing national effort to bridge the digital divide in the United States. It was launched by the U.S. The website is in English and Spanish.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Though most nonprofits in the United States, Canada and the U.K. That said, I am currently in Southeast Asia presenting social media trainings to nonprofits in Malaysia, Singapore and Manila – most of which are just getting started with using social media. Make sure they are the right ones. </strong> 8. Enjoy yourself!

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

My favorite historian, Peter Dobkin Hall , wrote a defining essay in one of his books that describes the "invention" of the nonprofit sector in the United States. But thinking and working as sector has become increasingly useful. Each of these issues stems from policies that most nonprofits enjoy (or fight) as a class.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Now, years later, as I work with nonprofits who are primarily interested in Facebook and Twitter, there is part of me that mourns the loss of MySpace being used by the nonprofits. Recent reports have alluded to class and race divisions between MySpace and Facebook users. MySpace is not just a community of poor people!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Interest in exploring these models has been rising in the United States, but they are much more common in Europe. This article was originally published by Taylor & Francis Online.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Jarrett Fuller powerfully writes that minimalism: “erases the vernacular of local cultures and the plurality of human experience — race, gender, class — reinforcing the myth that design decisions are neutral while creating aesthetic hierarchies of good and bad design.” . People doing great work. But At What Cost?

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” With this in mind, and my trusty laptop timer working as a moderator, I will now begin. People from all over the world were focused in on the United States and what was going on for the entirety of the 90-minute session (plus additional time)… So, I have already used some of my time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Campus Party is the biggest technology phenomenon that almost nobody in the United States has ever heard of. It is a huge success in the Spanish-speaking world and plans to debut in the States, in the S.F. But in the meantime, they work at the bank. Where will they work? Some of them are a bit p.o.ed

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

As Hurricane Sandy was barreling up the Atlantic coast of the United States, a husband and wife in their early 90s, frail of body and mind though resolute (some would say stubborn) of spirit, finally gave in to the pleadings of their family. First, no trains, buses, or planes moved to or from New York City.

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Achieve

JUNE 7, 2021

It was the late 1980s and I was signing up for the first class in the first master’s program in philanthropy and development in the country, at St. Most training in the field was from professional associations like. But even then, training in fundraising could be effective and based on sound principles. The Science of Giving.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2017

Author Jeanne Bell states, “while the nonprofit sector regularly discusses and addresses programmatically issues of race and class, recent studies reveal a sharp disconnect between our values and our leadership’s demographics” (Ostrower, 2007). United States Census Bureau (2014). Schwartz, R., Weinberg, J.,

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Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2012

Since we launched our donation program in 2002, TechSoup has saved nonprofits and libraries in the United States and around the world over $3 billion dollars in IT expenses. The whole team here at TechSoup continues to work each day to help organizations like yours put more of your hard-earned dollars toward helping your communities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

A 2008 study shows that the nonprofit sector employs approximately 13 million people in the United States. [1] Therefore, they prefer to hire experienced professionals—or those who have training in nonprofit leadership and management skills. We welcome your comments and feedback.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2015

These tools, in turn, make the delivery of poverty-related services work better, and we're building a company that helps to enable this revolution. We need to move the dial and increase the effectiveness of service delivery to the poor so that those in poverty can more easily access jobs, training, housing, and medical services.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Since May 2007, he and his crew have aided thousands of victims at 15 sites across the United States -- free of charge." Today, she offers hundreds of children who work in Phnom Penh's trash dump a way out through free schooling and job training." Maria Da Silva "Has lost 14 family members to AIDS.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Evolving technology, accelerated by a public health crisis, has opened more education and training options at a lower cost and at a wider range of levels and subjects than ever before. . You can also meet the challenges of day-to-day work with content literally right at your fingertips. . Academic Classes. Academic Classes.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Research backs up their claim: Studies show that incarcerated individuals who participate in prison education programs are 43 percent less likely to return to prison than those who did not enroll; yet, only a quarter of people in prison participate in vocational training programs. Moreover, says Diana Wilson, CEO and founder of Black SiS.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

At the time, the Federal government had just signed the welfare deform legislation, pushing millions of welfare recipients from welfare to work. We began, essentially, organizing a union of low-wage workers, unemployed workers, to try to improve both the living conditions and the working conditions for low-wage workers here in San Francisco.

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

We began harvesting such best practices based upon the amazing Donor Retention work of Adrian Sargeant (you will see Adrian and his wonderful family in a few of the pictures below). The picture below shows our Business Relationship blossoming into a personal friendship as we dined on a train from London to Plymouth.

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DipJar

APRIL 19, 2021

Unless the right people know about, learn about, or feel good about your work, you won’t have the people to work with or the funding to serve them. In major gift work, it’s really the person’s interest that counts the most. So, put on those “marketing eyes” and get the training you need to succeed today! About the Author.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work. I ended up in it from way back, from where I grew up.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 20, 2021

In efforts led by Salesforce.org and Faithforce , the Interfaith employee resource group, Salesforce has honored World Refugee Day for years and supports refugee aid and resettlement by educating employees on the refugee crisis, giving employees paid time off to volunteer, and providing nonprofit organizations with best-in-class technology tools.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 15, 2018

posted by Pamela Timmons Class 12 Public Ally. Throughout all the trainings, workshops and countless social engagements, I started to remember who I was and what I brought to the “equation called life.” Pamela Timmons was part of Public Allies' Class 12. Thinking back, I had no idea where I was in life or where I wanted to be.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

At AnnieCannons, an anti-human trafficking organization, they transform survivors of human trafficking into software professionals through a holistic program that trains and equips survivors to independently support themselves and their families. Learn more about how Salesforce helps The Code to work smarter, not harder.

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Everyaction

MARCH 14, 2018

With over 1,400 sites in 400 cities across the United States and Canada, the organization has grown tremendously since its founding in 1864. We do that through our direct services, programming with our affiliates, and our advocacy work. network spans across the United States and Canada. The Girls Inc.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 20, 2022

In efforts led by Salesforce.org and Faithforce , the Interfaith employee resource group, Salesforce has honored World Refugee Day for years and supports refugee aid and resettlement by educating employees on the refugee crisis, giving employees paid time off to volunteer, and providing nonprofit organizations with best-in-class technology tools.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

It's another to have the education to support that desire, to support that change, and so we're looking at long-term, sort of systemic and generational change, not necessarily just short-term fixes, and that takes pretty profound work and education to do. We do an adult cooking class, as well. It's free for adults.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

This latest one spotlights the many great interns, associates and fellows that are or were working for Benetech over this summer and into this year. Jule has been working with Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group, HRDAG, which completed analyzing data for Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences and forums, informal trainings, and more that will be taking place all over the world, focusing on essential topics like: Nonprofit management. Learn how to make your campaigns – and your career – more successful than ever and do it in a world-class venue. Fundraising.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

They do a lot of really good work for their clients. Looks like it’s working. The dollars that are being given in America are moving from the middle class to the wealthy, from income to assets, and from boomers to millennials. She’s a friend of Bloomerang for sure. She’s done webinars for us before.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

They do a lot of really good work for their clients. Looks like it’s working. The dollars that are being given in America are moving from the middle class to the wealthy, from income to assets, and from boomers to millennials. She’s a friend of Bloomerang for sure. She’s done webinars for us before. Check them out. Steven: Yeah.

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