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Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For Washington Trail Association volunteers like Chris O’Brien, donning an orange hard hat out on the trail is a badge of honour. Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teachgreen hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits – Guest Post.

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La Conner Regional Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. Lane is planning to do a game design class and is excited about using the MultiPoint Server system as a teaching tool. We then did check-ins on how the MultiPoint Server system held up under use. Space is an issue in their library.

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La Conner Regional Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. Lane is planning to do a game design class and is excited about using the MultiPoint Server system as a teaching tool. We then did check-ins on how the MultiPoint Server system held up under use. Space is an issue in their library.

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14 Nonprofit Books Recommended by Top Industry Experts

Classy

By Alison Green and Jerry Hauser. This book focuses on getting results by teaching new and experienced nonprofit leaders the fundamental skills of effective management. Rather than fearing the inevitable, this book will teach you how to feel, map, assess, and learn from the continual state of flux we experience everyday.

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Bryant Terry: Eco-chef, Food Justice Activist, Author of Vegan Soul Kitchen

Have Fun - Do Good

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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Sending Collections on the Road: Geocaching and Museums

Museum 2.0

explains: The city of Bellevue, Washington holds a public art sculpture exhibition every couple of years. For a related teen project , I was invited to teach roughly 200 middle- and high-school students about geocaching (a GPS-based scavenger hunt) so that they could send miniature sculpture pieces out into the world.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started off in Camden, Maine to teach at the PopTech Fellows program, New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts for a session with arts marketers , and finally to Washington, DC to attend a briefing at the White House and to keynote the last BlogPotomac conference.