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MARCH 16, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. But it’s during the walk around the block or staring out the window of the Acela to New York when we can thaw out the brain freeze and go for the breakthrough.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Through projects like the Games and Learning Publishing Council and the National STEM Video Game Challenge ( [link] ), the Cooney Center explores the power of games to advance learning and engage vulnerable students. In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

First, no trains, buses, or planes moved to or from New York City. We turned on CNN and watched together as scenes from New Jersey and New York flashed across the screen. This puts New York City’s economic disparity on par with places like Sierra Leone or Namibia. I wanted to get them to safety.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 Jumo setup their offices in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood. Chris Hughes brought in Kirsten Titus as Managing director of Jumo. So What and Who Cares.

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

The goal is to collect 4 million actions (photos of hands raised, likes on their Facebook campaign page, etc) and present the collective actions to the United Nations Secretary General and the world donor community urging them to put girls’ education as their priority.

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MARCH 4, 2016

I was an early adopter of using the Internet in 1992 where I had a virtual job working online for a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts called ArtsWire. It has intruded on our attention and wellbeing – and helped blurred the lines between work and leisure time.

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JANUARY 13, 2010

You'll find reviews of iPhone apps from the Olympics , National Center for Missing Children , the San Jose Museum , and others. One of the more exciting iPhone apps to appear in the last month or so is CauseWorld that uses a new form of "embedded" giving that I dubbed " Foot Traffic Philanthropy." New York Philharmonic.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

His views on the philanthropic world have appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , USA Today , The Los Angeles Times , and on National Public Radio. Steve MacLaughlin is a Director of Analytics at Blackbaud and is considered an expert on the nonprofit sector.

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MAY 26, 2011

The 8th Annual Games for Change Festival takes place on June 20 – 22 in New York City. The annual festival is an excellent opportunity to hear from the field’s thought leaders and see innovative approaches. What Nonprofits Can Learn at Games for Change Festival by Jeff Ramos.

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MARCH 19, 2012

Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle. ” The article described fascinating new uses of sensors and other smart telecommunications devices in energy conservation, transportation, health care, and food distribution.

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AUGUST 22, 2009

  I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts for 12 years on a range of arts and technology programs, including a network for artists called Arts Wire. The topic was the role that artists can play in shaping communities with particular focus on plans for 9/11, a new National Day of Service and Remembrance.

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

All of these platforms have been profiled at our recent Social Media for Nonprofits conferences, which is about to produce its final US program of the year in Seattle on 11/5, before we head to New Delhi on December 5, and then back to New York City, Silicon Valley, Vancouver, plus most other major US markets in 2013.

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JANUARY 15, 2009

They are currently running a comments for food donation campaign for New York City Food Pantries. He has also called for a national day of service on January 19, Martin Luther King Day. Share Our Strength is the leading national organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger in America.

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JANUARY 29, 2011

The New York Times reported on the use of social media and protests suggesting that Egypt’s government was afraid of the power of social networking tools.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2012

On one end the social spectrum, we have the version best expressed in a New York Times op ed written by Thomas Friedman on the revolution occurring in Silicon Valley. As I was listening to the panels surrounded by global social innovators, the multiple meaning of the word “social” struck me.

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DECEMBER 17, 2007

Back in the early 1990s, I was "hoisting" web pages onto the Internet with a colleague David Green who worked at the New York Foundation for the Arts on the Arts Wire project.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2006

4 jobs I had: General Manager of the Pro Art Chamber Orchestra Management/Capacity Assessment Evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts Challenge Grants Day of Service Consultant for N-TEN Community Builder/Network Coordinator for Artswire, an online network for artists and project of the New York Foundation for the Arts.

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OCTOBER 7, 2007

  Emily and Cooper have launched a new action on a blog called " Cool It Moms."  "  This blog in response to an op-ed that appeared in the New York Times, A Swiftly Melting Planet calling on the mothers to band together on global warming. So, if pink or red are not your colors, what about green? 

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MAY 10, 2009

It's called Bullseye Gives, a special Facebook page inviting folks to decide how they should allocate $3 million among ten large institutional charities, including: Parent Teacher Association Feeding America The Salvation Army American Red Cross National Parks Foundation Breast Cancer Research Foundation St.

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MARCH 28, 2007

My first challenge is in acknowledgment of March being Boycott The RIAA Month: The RIAA theme song by the New York Times' David Pogue. I'm blessed with a co-production with the National Film Board of Canada (www.nfb.ca), which is Canada's cultural film agency. I want your opinions on the issue, as raw or refined as you see fit.

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AUGUST 29, 2006

I met Janet Salmons many years ago while I working on various arts and technology projects in New York State for the New York Foundation for the Arts. From Cornell I went to the intergenerational, national nonprofit called Magic Me. Earlier this month, Janet sent me a note that she had completed her Ph.D.

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JANUARY 19, 2007

buzz at the UK National Circuit Riders Conference this week was not tool talk, but issues related to adoption of the tools. Good article from the New York Times about widgets, " Some Bling for Your Blog " and a post on the Yahoo Blog about social media meets fundraising. Adoption - Yes or No or Shades of Gray?

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AUGUST 4, 2008

Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. WeWorkForFree is a design community that allows it's members to upload and share their portfolios in order to raise money for international programs that benefit developing nations around the globe. Shiny Object Syndrome.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2007

That's when I was working with the New York Foundation for the Arts on its technology capacity building programs, including offline/online workshops for online skill building called SpiderSchool. A photo of meeting Jayne Cravens face-to-face after following her work for ten plus years online.

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OCTOBER 18, 2006

After 9/11/01 in New York, the economy was truly dismal. ve presented my 15SecondPitch workshop at: Streetwise Partners and the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship. s Network and New York Opportunity Network. Why did you launch your company? t see why anyone would NOT want to do it. This year I???ll

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

Mr. Carlin began his keynote speech by taking us back to a pre-Giuliani New York City where people were told not to look strangers in the eye as they walked by them on the street. Aspen Baker is executive director and founder of Bay Area-based Exhale, the nation's only pro-voice organization dedicated to.

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MAY 1, 2003

In addition to collecting information about metro Boston, TDC studied nine other metropolitan areas with similar populations, thriving arts communities, and some of the highest art revenues per capita nationally, including Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Seattle.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Since that time, Dan Schawbel has been a New York Times bestselling author and a partner at Workplace Trends.com. The work is difficult, but Brian’s advice and practical tools on how to approach donors in this book will make you successful. Effective storytelling is the secret sauce of nonprofit fundraising and marketing.

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JULY 17, 2012

We featured her as a guest on our Facebook Live program at WEF interviewed by New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof. We hosted a roundtable at the 2012 Social Innovation Summit in New York and recently participated on a panel at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in Chicago.

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JULY 11, 2009

Let’s look at some of the mission statements from orchestras around the country: New York. The central mission of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association is to present classical music through the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to Chicago, national and international audiences. Well, what is your organization’s mission exactly?

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MAY 24, 2012

Giselle’s dream is in her own words: I have been given an opportunity to attend a human rights workshop in New York City, this summer June 22-July 14. Part of Akilah’s program is that students start social businesses to give back to their communities.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

According to the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, new restrictions have been enacted that will make it harder for more than five million eligible voters in states that will provide 171 electoral votes – nearly two-thirds of the votes needed to win the Presidency.

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