Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Photo by Green LA Girl ) 2. Teaching The Essential Blog Content Development Workshop I loved co-facilitating the Essential Blog Content Development Workshop with Elizabeth Soutter of Da Momma: Motherhood is Not for Wimps , and Julie Weckerlein of Julie and Martin. Hanging out with Siel/Green LA Girl. Siel of Green LA Girl.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Manage Your Time Ok, tools are great, but the discipline of using your time wisely is where your nonprofit productivity will skyrocket, lowering your stress and making work more fun. It’s not fun. Responding to posts from our Facebook community is a light, fun task for me. Teach yourself to be more productive.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Forum One was a sponsor, and several of my colleagues from our user experience and design team lead sessions on topics ranging from tips on quick and simple audience analysis to learning from design mistakes and making client engagement fun in a group setting. Thanks for the creative tour, @mojoguzzi!

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2018

To ring in the season, here are 10 fun, unique and affordable summer fundraisers that will make everyone excited to give back. Along with selling food and beverages, you can have a grill-off competition or add fun extras, like a beer tasting or a raffle. Gather a crowd in the park and have a volunteer teach a yoga or pilates class.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Here are signs your work may be in the danger (red) or caution (yellow) zone, rather than full speed ahead (green) zone: Your budget has stayed the same for quite some time, or it has shrunk. There are ways to take the wonderful work you’re doing and expand your reach to teach more people, heal more people and enrich more people’s lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teach “green hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. They offer direction, supervision and make outings fun. For Washington Trail Association volunteers like Chris O’Brien, donning an orange hard hat out on the trail is a badge of honour.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2015

I'm thrilled to say that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Cary Creative Center , or "C3," an organization working to save materials from the landfill by turning them into beautiful art. Betsy Dassau, C3's founder and executive director, believes in the power of art.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Here are signs your nonprofit may be in the danger (red) or caution (yellow) zone, rather than the full speed ahead (green) zone: Your budget has stayed the same for quite some time or it has shrunk. There are ways to take the wonderful work you’re doing and expand your reach to teach more people, heal more people, and enrich more lives.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2019

You’ve probably seen it but not realized it: an Airbnb ad that doesn’t show pictures of fun travel destinations. Remember when you met a group of young people who wanted to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony? A Nike ad with Colin Kaepernick’s face. A New York Times ad that doesn’t mention the news. A brief step back in time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

A green themed party where guests can plant seeds to take home and grow. Here are more ideas from the blogosphere: The Mom Salon writes about ECHOage: Teaching Children About Giving Back. Your child's birthday absolutely has to be fun, and feel like a celebration, but if you can balance the fun with doing good, all the better!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

The name of another of Bravo's blogs, "Have Fun * Do Good," may be her daily mantra, but "big vision" is an equally apt tagline ??? beyond her writing, teaching, and podcast production work, she provides consulting services to nonprofits and individuals looking to create their own positive change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 28, 2008

Beth will give a keynote about, "New Media: The Wizard Behind the Curtain," and teaching a session about, "Social Media Game for Nonprofits." I'll be teaching a "Nonprofit Blogging 101," and a "Nonprofit Podcasting 101" session. If you're going to be at either event, let us know!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The next morning participants gathered to make individual and collective sense of the ideas that were shared by experts. The techniques that help you get at understanding are not always fun or easy to do. It requires stepping back and seeing the big picture. We finished with a group photo and fun co-creation reflection.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Pie Ranch is a Bay Area nonprofit that teaches urban youth about food and farming: "We have planted wheat for pie crusts and berries for filling, and are raising bees for honey, goats for milk and chickens for eggs on a 14-acre parcel above the historic Steele Ranch at Green Oaks Creek.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 19, 2007

Street Yoga is a group in the Pacific Northwest that teaches free yoga and wellness classes to youth living on the streets and in foster care, children of homeless families, and young people recovering from abuse and trauma.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. Example: Green for All posted about how Green for All Supports Local Green Jobs Corps in Tennessee. I've consolidated down to 8 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs, and added new examples.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Golf Tournament Bring together avid golfers and local philanthropists—in many cases, they’re one and the same—for a day on the greens. Charity Races like marathons, 5Ks, fun runs, or walkathons invite participants to register with your nonprofit and collect donations from their community, making every step count for your cause.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

A Few Book Suggestions: Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , a publication of Echoing Green. They were all Echoing Green Fellows who received up to $90,000 in seed funding and technical support to turn their ideas into sustainable organizations. It's fun, it really is. A the end of the day, it's a fun job."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

Cheryl Dorsey, the President of Echoing Green , a nonprofit that provides seed funding and support to social entrepreneurs, talked about how providing capital for social innovation can: Provide incentive for individual and collective engagement around social problems. Barriers to entry: The government prescribes a lot of requirements (i.e.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2006

They were brought together by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights' Reclaim the Future program to talk about how to make Oakland a model city that uses the growing green economy to lift its low-income residents out of poverty. are going to make Oakland the new Silicon Valley for green capital."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

Hat tip to Echoing Green for the link). According to the article, Harvard professor, Howard Gardner, is teaching “reflection” seminars at Harvard, Amherst and Colby, "which he hopes will push undergraduates to think more deeply about the connection between their educations and aspirations."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Harry: A Green Geek. Social Networking: Part of Your Job or Just for Fun? Teaching Your Kids About Philanthropy. Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. Interview with Jonathon Colman. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True!

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

If you’re planning a 5K, fun run, or walk, you can give your participants the option to complete the event in their own time rather than having to set aside a single day. You can pair this kind of fundraiser with a giving day for an extra element of fun for your organization, but make sure to market a matching gift drive well.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? It’ll be more like having a rainbow garden – a row of carrots, a row of corn, a row of strawberries, a row of collard greens, and so on. Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona. All You Need is Love.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 31, 2010

In other words, we can think about investing in agricultural development, agricultural knowledge, and agricultural education where we are working with community based groups in developing countries to help support those groups' teaching farmers how to adopt some of the most sophisticated organic methods, and agri-ecological methods.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

It was very simple, nutrient-dense, leafy greens, root vegetables, and fresh fruit from the trees in their front yards, and nuts from the trees in their yard and the neighbors' yards. I always encourage people that if you have available green space, grow your own food. It's said that some of the Gumbo Zavs use up to nine greens.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

I'd been looking forward to GOOD for a while after Green LA Girl wrote about it, and after talking to Christine Soto at the GOOD Magazine booth at the Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp. While on the plane to and from Peru I had A LOT of time to read. I read my new issue of Ode , With All Our Strength by Anne Brodsky, and a new magazine, GOOD.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

They were normal kids, except they lived in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood of Chicago, where the role models and life experiences were anything but what normal kids in most parts of America grow up with. The Cabrini Green neighborhood has a high concentration of poverty, many people living on welfare, and strong street gang involvement.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

What : Relax, or join the fun – it’s up to you! Activities include: - Human Bingo: A fun and easy way to network with other attendees. Come to the session with your online campaign ideas, and get ready to have fun mapping out a campaign! What : Relax, or join the fun – it’s up to you! When : All Day. When : All Day.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

If you’re looking for a creative, fun fundraising idea to engage supporters and boost your funding, you’ve come to the right place! Cornhole tournament – Host a fun cornhole tournament for your peer-to-peer participants and have them fundraise among their friends and family beforehand.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

commented that the demographic of people who are involved is much broader than you’d think, including lots of families looking for a fun, educational, free activity. and from the resources at geocaching.com, I’ve been converted to think of geocaching as a fun way to engage visitors with collections, place, and technology. I asked Seth!

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

If you’re watching the recording, I hope you’re having a good day, no matter where you are, but we’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so. If you’re going to share this with a board member, that’d be kind of fun too. And so this is where it gets kind of fun. So keep that in mind.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I'm going to be green. I'm a personal believer that you can't teach someone to be an entrepreneur. I don't think you can teach someone to be an entrepreneur. We are pretty selective on the companies that we work with, and because we offer it for free is we are pretty limited on our capacity. We look for several things.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I’m going to start sipping my green tea, like you said. So I’m going to teach you what works so you don’t have to make the mistakes that I did. Paul to teach them a bit about what goes on in Ethiopia, or Uganda, or wherever their camps are. There’s also paying attention in a fun, different way.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Guest Post Written By: Victoria Greene. They combine the perfect balance of fun and serious—as their aim is to protect the world’s oceans they can’t be too silly, but need just the right amount to keep their audience interested. Guest Post: Victoria Greene is a branding consultant and freelance writer. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Spencer Brodsky is 17 and he is spending his time online to raise money to bring Green Stoves to Rwanda , something he's been doing for the past 2 years. . Philanthropy doesn't have to be an adults only activity, giving can be part of your family fun. Teach Your Kids About Charities: YouthGive. Spencer Brodsky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

So, now is the fun part. Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. For teaching and learning. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Eating Fabulous Step 2: Thinking Outloud. Fundraising presentations. Economic Impacts.

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