Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

A lot of helpful and insightful digital storytelling advice was shared; below are some of the highlights: India: NASSCOM Foundation, TechSoup Global partner, led the way with How to Create High Impact Stories. Participants advised understanding your audience and sharing the stories behind your program stats to make an impact.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Bea’s job on TechSoup’s community team is to find compelling nonprofit stories from our community (NGOs, libraries, technology consultants, and foundations) around the globe to feature them on our TechSoup Global Local Impact Map. Like so many people here at TechSoup, she has broad experience.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

In this guest post, Stefania Van Dyke, Master Teacher for Textile Art and Special Projects, tells the story of how the co-creative development and visitor participation in the “Thread Studio” that accompanied their 2013 summer exhibition, Spun, changed her perspective on her own work. Some community artists even helped install the space.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

How big is the NetSquared Local community? They collaborated with the TechSoup Global team to bring events into their communities. Ten Net2 groups held Digital Storytelling events in their community, with an estimated 360 attendees. Highlights from the NetSquared Community Blog. Number of events held: 38.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2017

NetSquared organizers bring together the nonprofit technology community for face-to-face meetings. If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Saturday, July 8, 2017.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2013

Highlights from the Community. The Social Media Surgery community (of which Net2 Manchester organizer Steven Flower is a key member) won the BBC Learning Through Technology Award. Jim Lynch delves into the archives to tell the story of NetSquared: In the Beginning. Vancouver, Canada: Using Video to Tell Your Stories.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Laura’s experience working at and serving on the board of multiple arts organizations around the country shape her insights into the nonprofit community. Tell Your Story : You need to set off the right motivation in your member’s brain. Let them know how they’re helping the community and how they can do it even more in the future.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Temra Costa's book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat features the stories of over 30 women and how they are changing our food system for the better as farmers, educators, mothers, chefs, businesswomen, and policy wonks. It really begged to be written, all these great stories, and there are hundreds more all over the country.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Edmonia Lewis. Queen Anna Nzinga. Kamala Harris.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We believe that NGOs learn best from each other, so NetSquared provides a platform where we can come together face to face to share technology tips and create a community of practice around tech for good. Every month our global network of community organizers hosts Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story teller, and technologist" working at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, NC. I met many new people and learned a lot about technology and community, but the learning wasn''t the point, enjoying the resolutions was. author''s desk with brilliant colleagues who inspire me.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Brodsky documents the inside story of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). Jane Goodall has founded so many things including the Jane Goodall Institute , and Roots and Shoots , a community service program for young people. Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

As corporations become more global, their employees and customers are asking them to engage more with nonprofits in their communities. To get a sense of the complexity involved in connecting these groups to make an impact, take three countries’ unique nonprofit data stories: Organizations have a variety of registration types.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

By better understanding the wide cultural roots of this season of generosity we can fine-tune the means to communicate with all who make up our communities. The same example applies across so many cultures and communities, all of which can be important components in your nonprofit’s success. There are 7.5

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 31, 2010

After reading each of her books: Hope's Edge (that she co-authored with her mother, Frances Moore Lappé), Grub (that she co-authored with Bryant Terry), and now her new book, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It , I've felt hopeful and energized. Not Anna Lappé's books.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade? And in those communities high school is a luxury, so the local school in the local community typically goes through sixth grade. So, this community got organized. It sounds pretty cheap to you and me.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Maybe it’s because I spent so many of the dark hours that followed cut-off from my community – so disconnected from friends & family, on a business trip that mutated into a frantic 2-day race home through the desert Southwest – that I started to consider what it would have been like if we’d had Twitter on 9/11.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

In addition to co-authoring Grub with Bryant Terry, Anna also co-authored Hope's Edge with her mother Frances Moore Lappé and is a co-founder, with her mother, of the Small Planet Fund , and a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute , based in Cambridge Massachusetts. Britt: What are some of the Grub success stories that you've seen?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

Wells, Blogger and Community Organizer "We need to treat many of our social tools like door knocking, if someone comments on our site, we should take that as a hello, and use it to open a door to a potential relationship with a new leader, member, or supporter." Like the new pro-migrant community blog, the Sanctuary.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

So this is Snapchat, Instagram Stories, Facebook Stories, content that disappears in 24 hours. Like, I don’t want to miss my favorite celebrities’ story of the day because it disappears in 24 hours, and I want to stay connected. And it’ll be reminding me, “Hey, this person has posted a story.

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