Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

This week in San Francisco, technologists and human rights advocates are meeting at the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference (or RightsCon )to grapple with the realities of how we better manage the human rights implications of new technologies. Guest post by Sam Gregory. Sam Gregory.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It also offers an interactive opportunity to discuss key forms and governing documents(Form 1023 and Forms 990 and 990-PF.). 14th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. 14th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / $250. Finance / @southwestfdns. Jan 25 - 27.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2014

Gayle Samuelson Carpentier,TechSoup Global’s Chief Business Development Officer, is a newly minted member of the Nonprofit Technology Network's (NTEN) board of directors. Gayle Samuelson Carpentier: I am the board chair for a San Francisco digital inclusion nonprofit, Community Technology Network Bay Area.

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

The winning story will be featured as our "story of the month," and will be published on TechSoup.org, which projects to our global network and averages five million views a year! Even if you don't win this month, we would still love to place your organization's story on the Local Impact Map. Official Rules.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. 15th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. Jan 24 - 25.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2014

The Local Impact Map is a rich storytelling platform that uses mapping technology to place stories in a global context — as you can see in the picture below. It reaches our global network resources and, combined with TechSoup.org, has over 5 million annual site visits. Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, U.S.A.

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JANUARY 30, 2014

The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. It is a place for funders, and NGOs alike to find inspiring stories about tech use. The LIM reaches TechSoup’s global network of resources that spans over 80 countries. Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, U.S.A.

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JULY 1, 2014

The Local Impact Map is a rich storytelling platform that uses mapping technology to place stories in a global context as you can see in the picture below. It reaches our global network resources and, combined with TechSoup.org, has over 5 million annual site visits. Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, U.S.A.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. It is a place for funders, and NGOs alike to find inspiring stories about tech use. The LIM reaches TechSoup’s global network of resources that spans over 80 countries. Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, U.S.A.

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MARCH 30, 2015

Sponsored by TechSoup Global (" Sponsor "), 435 Brannan St., Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, U.S.A. To determine the winning entrant, a judging panel comprised of marketing and communication professionals selected by TechSoup Global's Communication Team will review each eligible submission.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

Sponsored by TechSoup Global (" Sponsor "), 435 Brannan St., Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, U.S.A. To determine the winning entrant, a judging panel comprised of marketing and communication professionals selected by TechSoup Global's Communication Team will review each eligible submission.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 13, 2015

Sponsored by TechSoup Global (" Sponsor "), 435 Brannan St., Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, U.S.A. To determine the winning entrant, a judging panel comprised of marketing and communication professionals selected by TechSoup Global's Communication Team will review each eligible submission.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

They are either from other countries, or they are embedded in communities of color or of other places, or they've traveled and worked extensively with communities. They all represent either a farmer, educator, activist, or chef, but they still share the connection that they're aware of global issues. What brought you here?

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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. 12th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. 12th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. Governance / @usdsoles.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

A simple place to start is by using Google’s spreadsheet tools. Maps, for example, are a global contextualizer -- everyone can personally relate to mapped data. The Center for Global Development's Carbon Monitoring for Action project , as an example, invites user reactions to their data about power plant carbon emissions.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. In some of the places where we work, women are very often not in professional roles whatsoever, much less the media. CH: Right, exactly.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Global delegates. The BoardSource Leadership Forum (BLF) is a global conference focused on nonprofit leadership at the highest level – the board of directors. The BoardSource Leadership Forum (BLF) is a global conference focused on nonprofit leadership at the highest level – the board of directors. Amazing speakers. 10/18/2016.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

I believe if we go in that direction, and our intention is to be true to ourselves, and also to remember our own interconnection, and the state that the world is in right now, that it will guide us to a place where the work that we are doing is actually helping, and has an application. A lot of it was positive.

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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. So, that was quite inspirational.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

" Ginny Mies, Global Content Curator. The story focuses on a bright and eager 20-something-year-old who gets a job at this highly coveted place to work that offers luxuries such as free concerts, volleyball courts, and a spa. Images: TechSoup Global. "I'm reading The Circle by Dave Eggers.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

We have another date for the end of the global digital divide! Way back in August I posed the somewhat rhetorical question: Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? that is experimenting with high tech balloons to supply Internet in remote places. Digital Inclusion. News flash. TechCrunch.

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DECEMBER 19, 2013

" Ginny Mies, Global Content Curator. The story focuses on a bright and eager 20-something-year-old who gets a job at this highly coveted place to work that offers luxuries such as free concerts, volleyball courts, and a spa. Images: TechSoup Global. "I'm reading The Circle by Dave Eggers.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

And I would say it was about a month after we had been working from home, several of us on our team did receive the phone call that we were being placed on that indefinite furlough. But given the current global uncertainty, are you finding added stresses to your job, worrying about what might be tomorrow or in the coming months?

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APRIL 21, 2014

The 2007 winner of the Nobel Peace prize, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just issued its fifth report on what the science tells us about how fast human created global warming is affecting the biosphere. For climate change news, I like NASA’s Global Climate Change news site. It’s not great news.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

Kevin Danaher is the co-founder of the nonprofit Global Exchange which co-sponsors the Green Festivals with Co-op America. Kevin talks about the Global Citizen Center, a large mixed use building in downtown San Francisco that will serve as a hub for ecologically and socially responsible enterprise, education and economic development.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

The newest Big Vision podcast is up , and it is an interview with Ilyse Hogue, the Global Finance Campaign Director for the Rainforest Action Network and one of the founders of SmartMeme , a non-profit collective of long term organizers, strategists, trainers and communications professionals.

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JUNE 30, 2007

And also, because I've always been involved with nonprofits, which are about helping other people and trying to make the world a better place, and I've done a lot of career counseling, I'm always trying to give people advice and share information. And it was really easy for me to share that information and link to those places.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

Not literally, but it's like what we are doing as a species to the place where we live is so unfathomable that in a way there was a throw up my hands aspect to it, even though I was engaged in what I could do to prevent that, or work against that tide. Daycare tomorrow," or I actually remember what it was.

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