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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Highlights of this Letter: SocialCoding4Good CityOptions Read2Go and Route 66 Literacy Selected Program Updates Human rights: Legal victory in Guatemala, PBS NewsHour stories Literacy: Major milestones for Bookshare at home and abroad SocialCoding4Good Just funded by the John S. and James L. This is a huge legal victory!

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals To Begin 2018 with Clarity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I continued an active schedule of teaching workshops on self-care for nonprofit professionals and creating a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace as well as numerous keynote presentations. I also had a glorious week-long experience working along side the co-founders of Wake on the Tech2Empower program in Guatemala.

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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A key feature of Route 66 is the Teacher Tutor, which helps the inexpert but motivated teacher (parent, volunteer, teacher's aide, rehab professional) teach reading. My new favorite is how the Human Rights Ombudsman's Office of Guatemala (PDH is the Spanish acronym) uses our Martus human rights software.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

ASU Lodestar Center

We can couple those practices with shared tracking documents that clearly outline deliverables, timelines, and responsibilities. Even setting up a basic Excel document will help you out when things start to get crazy. Add to that the "Guatemala Factor" and there are times when I feel ready to hide under my bed for a few days.

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Reader Appreciation Day: Beth's Big Give - Congrats to Epic Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It would have been really hard for me to pick so I used random number generator to pick the winner and the process of selecting the winner is documented here - in case you want to borrow the idea for creating a "Big Give" of your own. Education And More : Has a mission to help educate the children and reduce poverty in Guatemala.

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Third Party Fundraising Helps NEXT Worldwide “Live the Mission”

Connection Cafe

In August, Ryan Deer* will head out with his baseball team and NEXT Worldwide to “Live the Mission” by working with church planting leaders in Guatemala who equip and assist local pastors with planting or strengthening new churches. Make It Personal.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

I've now documented women's lives in 40 countries, over the past 10 or 12 years, and everywhere I went, I found women who were helping each other, local women. Right at the end of that period, I also was teaching. And second, I was exhausted from having continued to do consulting and teaching at the same time.