Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The goal is to train over 150-250 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Morocco, and other countries and help them put social media skills into practice. Build the capacity of these NGOs and CSOs to use new media effectively through mentoring and coaching. Reciprocity: Non-technical and Nerds – can help learn. Efficiency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2009

Since March, I've been commuting between Boston and San Francisco. I could not resist striking up a conversation with them, especially since we had so much rough turbulence that it helped distract me. Miro Logo. One of the best things about the commute is Virgin America airlines in flight experience.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

Nonprofit arts organization Zero1 needed a way to help people make sense of its biennial, Seeking Silicon Valley, scheduled for September 2012. A Tech Advisory Committee of nine Bay Area technologists such as Kollective Mobile CEO Sian Morson mentored the teams. To tackle the challenge, Zero1 decided to create an app.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

As a foundation, we do more than just write a check; through our community, philanthropic and corporate partnerships, we help nonprofit organizations find new revenue sources to become more self-sustaining. Whether the divides are social, economic, political or cultural, it is often technology that can help overcome these divides.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

Because the Village Enterprise Fund's administrative office is in San Carlos, CA, about 25 miles from San Francisco, we were lucky enough to have VEF's Development Director, Barbara Lamb Hall, there to chat with us and to show us a quick PowerPoint presentation. This month's organization was the Village Enterprise Fund.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2011

Hopefully their answers, paired with our summaries, will help you make attendance at your favorite conference a reality the next time around. I live in a small town in Florida so I don't have the opportunity that people in Chicago or DC other big cities might have to build a network of people and peers to mentor. Live from SXSW!

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

And I’m going to help you figure out what to do about it. I get training, my employer pays for me to go to these conferences, webinars, but I prioritize that, but I really could use a mentor. And she really guided me and mentored me. Hopefully, you can connect with other people who are in the chat and get a mentor.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

And hundreds of top mentors contributed to what’s rattling around in his head. Through training, coaching and consulting, Kivi helps nonprofit communications professionals both learn their jobs and love their jobs. It taught him to respect research. Know what you’re doing, don’t guess. He aims to have an “opinion-free” practice.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

May 29, 2019; San Francisco Chronicle. Now, San Francisco Chronicle business reporter Carolyn Said writes that Benetech is “almost halfway through a six-month pilot with six Bay Area social-service agencies to collaborate on maintaining their crucial databases of local resources through an open-standards data exchange.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The more successful you are, the more you have to give back." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Heather Carpenter is the Assistant Director of Aspiration which connects nonprofits organizations with software solutions that help better carry out their work. Upgrading all the computers in the office from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 working with Hilary Naylor, my mentor from Compumentor.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 2, 2012

Bookshare helps people who cannot read standard text participate in the world of ideas. This recent holiday season, Benetech began supporting an innovative organization that helps people with disabilities develop their creative abilities and become working artists. You can too!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help." --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us For me, it was interesting because living in San Francisco, the Tenderloin fascinates me.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

At in-person sessions in New York City and San Francisco, and virtually on Youtube Live , Demo Day brought together nine social entrepreneurs to explore solutions for problems they’ve experienced. Both nonprofits are using tech to help students of color gain access to educational resources, readying them for high-paying careers.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 28, 2021

To help us personally reflect and connect with these stories, I’ve included questions from Terri Givens’ book, Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides. She contributes to Salesforce.org on the Marketing Operations team and sits in San Francisco. How can we undo these false and debilitating assumptions?

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

So a major thank you both to Bloomerang for hosting us and a special shout out to Steven for helping to make this happen. . And so I’m looking forward to being able to share how some of that happened and the lessons that I learned and provide some helpful tips if you find yourself in the same situation. Sarah: Hey, everybody.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Maria Estela Godinez is currently studying high school in her hometown San Francisco del Rinc??n, She did it all by herself (hardware and software) with the help of teachers and mentors. San Francisco?????? In the mean time the San Francisco, California team began to scream and celebrate???

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

It grew out of a pioneer online community in the San Francisco Bay Area called The Well , the acronym for The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. With initial funding of $2,500, he started the CompuMentor Project to match computer enthusiast volunteers called computer mentors with Bay Area nonprofits that needed the help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Last week, I was in San Francisco leading a workshop and helped organized a group of attendees for TwestivalSF. This world-wide fundraiser, with a $1 million fundraising goal, brought together the Twitter community for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors. We call them editorial midwives, because they're helping these women really find, and birth their own voice and vision. Colorado, Portland, and San Francisco. We think it's because of the mentorship.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

Art is what helps you be a critical thinker. I learned about artists like Yolanda Lopez from San Francisco, or Ester Hernandez, or even male artists like Malaquias Montoya, who were doing very radical work, and were getting into venues and areas that I really wanted to get into. Everyone is entitled to art in their life.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2006

Some of the things that Nola has found helps the girls she works with are having an advocate that they can trust present from the time that they make contact with police, and having a safe place to stay for an extended period of time. and they'll say, 'Don't you know that everywhere else, coming to Oakland to do your thing is a big thing?'"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. They offer comprehensive high school scholarships, personalized mentoring, and leadership training. All these taught me how to become a human right activist.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. I moved to San Francisco. Check this out, check that out, and look at this!"

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