Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2015

Here is Shana’s complete list of things to green light (start doing) and red light (stop doing) this year! Green Light: Embrace Your Complainers! Green Light: Bring IRL Back! Rededicate yourself to learning more about fundraising, or teaching your staff to be better fundraisers.

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Socialbrite

JANUARY 15, 2021

By accumulating knowledge from the various experiences of employees and creating a platform to store it with the goal of sharing and disseminating that knowledge to people, you’ll create and enable a learning culture. . This is the type of knowledge that is codified and easy to teach. Tapping into two types of knowledge.

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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! Memorability.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

But, being a manager is a learned skill. Everyone can learn from others. As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. Dana Allen-Greil (@danamuses) November 13, 2019 Learning alongside your team was a suggestion that went across many comments.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2012

in schools, libraries, local governments, and nonprofits, it was tough to choose just one to profile this week, but I chose YouthBuild Boston because of my fondness for green tech. This is an after school program that is all about green jobs training and making old things new again. The Mission of After School Programs.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Why do all this if you’re just having somebody spoon green beans onto a lunch tray? Teach Them About the Program, Too. In the case of food service volunteers, you might also talk about why particular foods are chosen, the cleanliness standards of your operation, and who serves what role in the kitchen serving areas.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Beyond the First Click examines innovative volunteer engagement work by 35 organisations empowering people to scale change and win by learning and doing more. 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.

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2017

For the Professional Social Media class I teach at Sonoma State University , I created an exercise designed to help folks practice both content creation and looking at metrics. Using the dots, they will indicate if they would "Like" (blue), "Share" (yellow), or "Comment" (green) on the post.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Whatever you choose, there are probably tutorial videos online that will help you learn to use them efficiently, raising your nonprofit productivity. Keep plugging away through the learning curve. Present the tool with enthusiasm and share that you did your research and spent time learning the ins and outs of the tool.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

IN-PERSON LEARNING LABS. Learning Labs are a chance for individuals attending MCON 2015 in-person at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago discuss ideas and get practical advice from experts across many industries. In each of these five Learning Labs, participants will gather for an interactive time of teaching and discussion.

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Care2

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Sachs highlighted the example of the Fiji Green marketing campaign, where consumers quickly learned that Fuji’s practices weren’t "green" at all. What do you stand for that you can teach your audience and that will resonate with them. Sachs said that this cost the Fuji brand millions of dollars.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

My mother taught me many things, and I feel like with every year she teaches me more – whether she knows it or not. I see this work in public maps like Open Green Map. Learn more! I’m incredibly inspired to participate in this year’s To Mama With Love campaign from Epic Change.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The needs assessment is a learning and listening phase. Little Green Light is great for startups, as is Bloomerang, which has a free version that might work for your organization in the very early stages. Then, really listen. As a service provider, you are not in the shoes of the people who need your help. Next, donor management.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

You will probably need to hire a WordPress developer to build your site, but your developer can teach you how to make updates after your site goes live. Blue and green are cool, calming colors that work great for outdoorsy, environmental nonprofits. Learn more at www.GetFullyFunded.com/TV. Colors: Colors are so important.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2019

Remember when you met a group of young people who wanted to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony? Founded with a vision of a green and peaceful world, supporters rallied around their cause of nuclear disarmament, easily making the connections between values-based messaging and their core mission work. Want to learn more?

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Now I mainly do one-on-one work with people via phone, and teach classes on occasion. You can read Green LA Girl's post about the work we did together this fall: My Life, Directed by Big Vision Career and Project Consulting. I also host Echoing Green's Be Bold Podcast about creating a career with impact.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 17, 2015

In-Person Learning Labs. Learning Labs are a chance for individuals attending MCON 2015 in-person at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago discuss ideas and get practical advice from experts across many industries. In each of these five Learning Labs, participants will gather for an interactive time of teaching and discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? It is called “Rose, Bud, Thorn.” Participants reviewed their notes from the expert sessions, and wrote down challenges on blue sticky notes, strengths on pink sticky notes, and opportunities on green sticky notes. Why Use One?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

In 2000, she realized that she could use her marketing and advertising superpowers for good, and founded Digital Hive EcoLogical Design , the first communications firm to specialize in promoting green and social products and enterprises. Lisa Sonora Beam, The Creative Entrepreneur: How I Have Fun, Do Good Buy art from artists.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Reading and understanding these reports can be difficult for many board members, but there is so much important information there that great board members must learn to understand them so they can be real agents of change on the boards they join. Create custom reports for each audience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

To learn more about the Fund, I attended a panel called Social Innovation: Harnessing What Works to Address Critical National Challenges at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Accepting and championing failure and the learning that comes from failure. Trusting in the importance of new ideas.

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Classy

JULY 13, 2021

At Classy, one of our core values is to always be learning. Even seasoned fundraisers and nonprofit professionals need to learn new skills and hear new perspectives, and that’s where our reading list comes in. By Alison Green and Jerry Hauser. By Gabe Cooper . Download the 2021 State of Modern Philanthropy Report.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The Foundation supports organizations with a principal focus on the creation and exhibition of visual and multimedia art, as well as those that use or teach design as a tool to address social issues and to improve lives and communities. The Foundation's community grants program has two focus areas: Arts and Creativity. Youth Services.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Fleming's techniques teach you how to acquire customers faster and how to create what he calls legitimate brand loyalty -- the type that helps to keep your business thriving. Most important, you'll learn how to build impeccable character, community, and content -- the Three Cs of evergreen companies.

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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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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2011

This piece is part of an occasional series we do at GreenTech to profile leaders in the Green IT field. publication, Green IT For Dummies. There are now many general books on green IT, but Green IT For Dummies remains one of the most readable and practical introductions to the field for people in small and medium sized offices.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? but I got a good test drive because 23 students in my graduate seminar (Theory and Practice of Philanthropy) here at Arizona State University have been invited inside this spring semester to both learn about and hone the evaluation process. But thats okay.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

My two closest peers in California have both gotten MacArthurs (Victoria Hale this year and David Green two years ago). Our initial focus is on serving people with cognitive disabilities who want to learn to read. The great news is how much attention social entrepreneurship is getting.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Research classes/workshops in a skill I want to learn. 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. Sign up for it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Harry: A Green Geek. Using Metrics for Continuous Learning. 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! Birthday Greeting.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

I grew up very close to the earth and learned about gardening and farming from my family. 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. It's said that some of the Gumbo Zavs use up to nine greens.

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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. To learn more about Neon Fundraise, click the button below. Attendees can participate in planting sessions, learn about gardening techniques, and contribute to the maintenance of community gardens.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 3, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Let Employees Learn From Their Mistakes Mistakes happen.

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