The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

The Art of Celebration: Showcasing AAPI Cultural Richness Incorporating cultural performances and art displays is a great way to bring the essence of AAPI heritage to life at your event. Others may prefer moderated discussions or interviews. Offer childcare, wheelchair access, multi-lingual materials, etc. Their fame attracts interest.

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Candid

DECEMBER 23, 2021

On that same trip Frank and Susan took to Brazil, we had organized a series of events and workshops so that they could meet grantees and understand the challenging transition Brazil was undergoing from dictatorship to democracy. Negotiate, I did not. Looking back, I am glad that I refused to take “no” for an answer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

It was a natural choice for me, as an artist, to begin holding workshops for women and girls using creativity as a way for my own self expression and dreams to emerge. During these workshops I felt a peace that seemed to resonate around the room. Traveling Postcards workshops are easy and fun for everyone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Individual contributors, managers, and senior leaders can discover the mutual agenda where their own career aspirations and hopes for a productive working life you seek can align with the specific needs of the organization. Question : How can managers help employees discover their “job-within-the job” and achieve the working life they want?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't? Tags as a metric.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 19, 2012

Have you ever had one of those, When Things Fall Apart , times in your life? Inspired by things I learned in Lisa Sonora Beam's visual journaling workshop a couple years ago, and by my recent interview with Christine Mason Miller for the Arts and Healing Podcast , I've been pasting at least one image a day in a big 'ole journal.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

Tips for conducting a skills and interest assessment include creating a survey or conducting one-on-one interviews. It allows us to expand our impact, reach more people in need, and bring our mission to life in new and exciting ways. As you know, fundraising is an essential component of our work as a nonprofit organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

One of the best ways to learn is the study, observe, or interview the experts. Content curation can help increase the shelf-life of your content – it gives it an extra half life. One is a collection of selected articles, slide decks, and interviews with Robin Good. A Simple Method For Getting Started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. The workshop was hosted by Compasspoint , with support from the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. See the interview I did for Arrive Magazine , pages 34-37).

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Grandmother Power Photo journalist Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast in 2007 ) has a new book out, Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon. Check out Tara Mohr's interview with her on The Huffington Post. Rockwood Leadership Institute has Art of Leadership Trainings coming up on both coasts.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2010

TechSoup's very own Susan Tenby ( @suzboop ) was recently interviewed by Jim Love ( @therealjimlove ), Allan Hoving ( @ahoving ) and Janet Fouts ( @jfouts ) as the featured guest of Game Changing on BlogTalkRadio. Episode 22: Susan Tenby from TechSoup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

OSI Workshop View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Each of these life-changing innovations was the result of many missteps and an occasional brilliant insight that turned a mistake into a surprising portal of discovery. I had the pleasure of taking the visual facilitation workshop last fall (my write up is here ). Schoemaker. Michael Quinn Patton is the godfather of evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Note from Beth: I first learned about this project last year, when Shiree Teng, the project leader, interviewed me as part of some research on capacity building consultants that lead to the design of ImpactRising. When I graduated, I was shocked to find out that Dan had forgiven all my school loans. I think he’d be proud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. Pivot tables will change your life. Why get good at Excel? Pivot tables are the fastest, most accurate way to analyze your data – and they’re easier than you think.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 8, 2010

Below is an edited transcript of the interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast site , or through the iTunes Music Store. The staff at La Cocina is trained to be able to not just provide her with the technical support, but to help her get over all the barriers in life. You're going to be away from the home.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Based on that message, at the following 30th TED conference in Vancouver, Canada, I delivered an onstage exhortation to fellow technologists to secure their customers’ sensitive information in response to Edward Snowden’s surprise virtual TED interview. I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 1, 2013

My most recent career is as a full-time stay-at-home dad (or chief life-quality officer, as my wife likes to say!). Working in pharmaceutical sales, I was fortunate to receive extensive in-company training, yet I continued to seek out external workshops, along with networking with both in-company and out-of-company peers.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

Raise awareness of critical, life-saving COVID-19 measures. Facilitate virtual mentoring, college application review, or interview skills workshop, like Mission Graduates is doing. Lack of human connection and community for vulnerable people (veterans, first responders). DISEASE FOUNDATIONS. Urgent issues.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

Blumenfeld organized workshops for staff that taught them about the important aspects of stories, incorporating calls-to-action in their stories, and more. User-generated content includes how-tos, interviews, and life stories. Helping staff articulate their stories and developing them might require storytelling training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

This team has been working on a voluntary basis to conduct 14 workshops called ??? Personal Information Technology Workshop ??? tools) can make their study, work, and life easier. A conference workshop on blogging techniques and video blogging techniques. Keynote welcome.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Below is an edited transcript from a September 5th phone interview with Marisa for the Big Vision Podcast. In terms of my own life, as I write in Loyal to the Sky , I grew up in apartheid South Africa. Loyal to the Sky received a Nautilus Book Award for world changing books. Essentially, I came to activism from compassion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a Social Media Club workshop in Hawaii as part of Podcamp and WordCamp in Hawaii.     I was to track her down for an interview. .      I was to track her down for an interview.   How did you get interested in surfing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

I have an icebreaker for workshop coming up that is Twitter on Paper. t mind, im trying to work on my love life??? Links to media you create - video is fun, podcasts, perhaps interviews that are posted online about you, etc. I just discovered this excellent primer to using Twitter called Tweeting for Companies 101 by Tara Hunt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Last week, I did a workshop for a board of a secondary school interested in taking the first steps into social media. according to a recent Pew Internet and American Life Project. In the article, the author interviewed Walter J. While I was there, I got a tour, visited some classrooms, and talked to a few students.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. I've always had confidence that I can make the life that I want, and I credit them for empowering me with that perspective. I designed electricity workshops for families. I wanted to be in the real world as soon as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

AARP California Twitter Account Last week at the WeAreMedia Workshop, someone asked a question about babyboomers and social media use. I told the story about posting a video interview with my dad (who was 86 at the time) on YouTube about his first blog post and how I discovered a community of "older" people using YouTube.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Dora helps me file December 11 – 11 Things What are 11 things your life doesn’t need in 2011? How will getting rid of these 11 things change your life? On the other hand, with the right shoes, I will be able to walk and hike without pain for the rest of my life. Feel free to share your answers in the comments.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

You have to take action either by taking a class, doing an informational interview, volunteering, interning, going to an event, or taking a job in the field that interests you. Research classes/workshops in a skill I want to learn. If you are going home for the holidays and are dreading the, "What are you going to do with your life?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 27, 2006

Their story unfolds in a hot, dusty world where the coming, or lack of rain means the difference between life and death. To read an interview with the author, check out Jen Lemen's blog. If you live on the East Coast, Kris is teaching a weekend workshop, "Writing That Changes Lives" at Grub Street in Boston, MA January 13th and 14th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

David Armano likes to talk about how Twitter can strengthen loose ties (two people who are connected on social networks, but don't know each other in real life or very well). Some of the maps in the workshop were created with social analysis mapping software. (See this map from Malina ). Hubs look like starbursts on the visualization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Teresa Crawford is in Kiev in the Ukraine doing a workshop on Web2.0 for NGOs there. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

This week's Solutionary woman is Viet-Ly Nguyen, a former co-worker from Streetside Stories , who I interviewed for my Big Vision Podcast last winter. I work with a co-facilitator and we visit sixth grade language arts and social studies classes for two-week writing workshops. Britt: What do you see as the next step for you?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Interview people who are your influencers and champions, and find out why. There's NPR's Serial or Chicago Public Media's This American Life and Radiolab. Did they attend a workshop? For example, a story that begins with a big emotional impact will leave the reader asking questions and wanting more information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

For more on that topic, read the excellent interview with Carie Lewis of the HSUS here. I'm using to collect resources and information I gather from Facebook for an upcoming workshop. Second Life Ruby has an update on the demonstrations occurring in Second Life in support of Burma.

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