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Does Your Nonprofit Need Some Data Therapy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And while I haven’t done an in-depth map of this space, I keep thinking that a network of intermediaries (people who teach skills, connect skilled volunteers, generate discussion — those data nerds ) is missing. (I I may be wrong, let me know in the comments). To create change, data must lead to action.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

Consider using your executive director. So the evaluator has to consider if they are going to: Teach. By following these steps, your organization can replace poor capacity with self-sufficiency, self-determination, and empowerment. These are the people who will get the ECB ball rolling and actively manage the ECB process.

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Bridging the Opportunity Divide – Empowering Youth to Imagine and Realize their Futures

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Bridging the Opportunity Divide – Empowering Youth to Imagine and Realize their Futures – guest post by Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship at Microsoft. Mary Mwende told us about her journey from Mombasa, Kenya, to being one of ten girls chosen for the Global Give Back Circle , a mentoring and empowerment program.

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What Advice Would You Give to Women in Africa About using Web2.0 Tools to Advance their Work?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Oreoluwa Somolu is Executive Director of the Women???s s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC). s Technology Empowerment Centre. The project will teach women how to use Web 2.0 It is amazing to me that we have this rich history of working on project together, but we have never met face-to-face! Of course, said yes.

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What I Learned About Online Donor Engagement from Fundraisers in Brasil

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

João is also the executive director of ABCR , the professional association for fundraisers in Brasil and the host of the annual ABCR Festival. Empowerment. ” I enjoy teaching workshops and presenting internationally because of the opportunity to learn from global peers. Transparency. Aspiration. Positive Impact.

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Igniting the 15NTC stage at lightning speed

NTEN

Day 1 Plenary: Ignite with Ideas, Part 1 : Capitalizing on the Colbert Effect Speaker: Jennifer Breakspear, Executive Director, Options for Sexual Health. Transcending "Social:" Visibility and Empowerment In An Uber-Mega-Meta Self-Conscious Age Speaker: Jianda Johnson, Business and Resource Development Specialist, Guadalupe Montessori School.

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American Indian Resource Center: A TechSoup Youth Organization Profile

Tech Soup

I had a chance to chat with Heather Hale who is their web and publications director, and primary IT person in the organization. Finally the other technology heavy program that American Indian Resource Center will be doing is called NATIVE, the Native American Teaming and Visual Empowerment project.