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APRIL 16, 2015

When she was 14, Sejal founded the Elevator Project , an organization that aims to lift people out of poverty through apprenticeship, vocational training and job placement. She said she went to the Gen Z Conference because she wanted to cultivate the skills she’ll need to take the Elevator Project to a national scale.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

In December, I wrote about Pepsi's bold move of not spending money on Super Bowl ads for Pepsi beverages but using the money for lethal generosity through its Pepsi Refresh Project. For those who don’t know, the Pepsi Refresh Project is a new effort to empower individuals to make a positive impact on the world.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The site matches skills-based volunteers with nonprofits to do just in time projects like logo or business card design, marketing help, and other small volunteering tasks. We call these projects challenges. Some recently completed projects include: • A new business card design for the Surfrider Foundation’s Portland Chapter. •

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APRIL 24, 2007

Lately, almost all her twittering is about her new obsession, the Horizon Project as well as a few blog posts. Getting ready to cook dinner -- go on horizon project and send a note to expert judges to check in with their teams. Let look at the tagging standards for the project. Is this my life? ;-). Social Networking.

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JULY 10, 2009

If you are thinking about giving a social media project to an intern or a new employee who is a recent college grad, keep these four tips in mind. The team approach also gives your intern valuable project and team management experience, so she isn’t just sitting alone in front of a computer. The other three?

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OCTOBER 27, 2006

photo from the E-Tuk Tuk project I just had to blog it. I learned about this project via a well-written and researched blog post called " Building Peace through ICT - Ideas for practical ICT4Peace Projects." " This is a great list of practical, down to earth ICT projects. a meta linktrition?)

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NOVEMBER 16, 2007

It's a collaborative art project reminding me of the early Internet projects like Douglas Davis 's " The World's First Collaborative Sentence." " It's a micro-fundraising project - donate a dollar and participate. s to The One Second Film is The World's Biggest Shortest Film is several things rolled into one.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

We are looking for examples of youth blogging projects, i.e., cases where the organization encouraged, supported, and/or facilitated the teens in blogging (presumably as part of the organization's mission and goals, e.g., to help youth learn leadership skills, literacy skills, build community, etc.). Can anyone help her?

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MARCH 7, 2006

Via Joitske , Nancy White , and Britt Bravo , I read about The African Mentoring Project , run by Ore Somolu from Nigeria and who I know from the Global s projects. I saw this while I was busy mentoring for the Young Caucasus Women Blogging Project. Initially there will be a pilot project limited to Nigerian women.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

And, I have to prepare some instruction in a completely different context, get organized to visit Sharing Foundation projects, pack T-shirts, AND finish the massives amount of work before I go. The jing project is their first experiment in the Mac platform. The project will eventually turn into something else.

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APRIL 6, 2008

s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) is looking for mentors to participate in its Networking for Success project. The project is aimed at demonstrating and guiding women to work more efficiently using tools that support more collaborative information building and sharing techniques.

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JULY 2, 2008

Given that they book is just weeks away from hitting the streets, that the author is a pretty nice guy, and that I don't want to hold up our work, the easiest solution is for us to find a new name for the project. leave comments on blog posts that written about the project directing to new url. What is an open book project? ).

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JUNE 5, 2007

My friend Jonny Goldstein made this amazing video for Project Hope International. Jonny notes: One of them is this fundraising video for Christina Arnold, who runs a Project Hope International, a nonprofit which works preventing human trafficking in the US and in Southeast Asia. Click to Play. Go watch it.

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OCTOBER 16, 2006

This post takes a quick look at the the Voters project as a tagging project to glean some learnings. The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard." Let's examine this as a community-driven tagging project. The content aggregation is not moderated.

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APRIL 18, 2007

There were 150+ submitted nominations and 3,000+ people voted and 21 projects were selected. The Featured Projects will be going on to the NetSquared Conference and have an opportunity to receive cash, tech and consulting resources. Congrats to the list of 21! A Global Neighbour Network: NABUUR.com [link].

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Project 10 100 (pronounced "Project 10 to the 100th") is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. We're committing $10 million to implement these projects, and our goal is to help as many people as possible. Here's how to join in. Send us your idea by October 20th.

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MAY 18, 2007

Of his own accord, philanthropy consultant, Peter Deitz , has launched a 10-day campaign across multiple online fundraising platforms to raise $500 for each of the 21 Featured Projects going to the NetSquared Conference. Big thanks to Peter for donating his skills and time to help take these projects to the next level!

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

This got me curious about the young people blogging about education or doing projects. That lead me to Jennifer Rauch, the co-founder of The Generation Project. I am currently launching The Generation Project full-time. This year the awards have a category to solicit ideas from young people, age 18-25.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2006

Brian Del Vecchio has put a call out for nonprofit projects for a hacking event that will take place in Cambridge in December. Here's mine: Please take the Flickr API and integrate Andy Goodman's Best Practices for Story Telling to create a Nonprofit Story Teller in Flickr.

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MAY 17, 2007

This project will immunize 570 children in a small Cambodian village against Hepatitis B, diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus, all potentially fatal and preventable diseases. The Sharing Foundation is honored to be one of the projects over at Global Giving ! Provide 570 children with life-saving vaccines. Theme: Health |.

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MARCH 1, 2006

Britt Bravo and I have the pleasure of being the blogging mentors this week on the Young Caucasus Women Project. Our assignment was to write an essay on the topic of "Who's your favorite artist (visual, dancer, performer, writer, or musician) and why?"

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APRIL 18, 2006

I received an email from Paul Lamb encouraging participating in the " Nonprofits of the Future " project. It's an opportunity to dream and vision a little. Paul asks us to answer this question: "What the technologically empowered nonprofit of the future will look like 5 or 10 years down the road?"

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JULY 3, 2008

This week I started working on a new project with NTEN to help aggregate the many amazing social media resources out there and develop a social media training curriculum that anyone in the nonprofit sector can use. Sometimes a long trip feels like you'll never get there, but little by little you do.

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APRIL 10, 2007

Starting this week, you can vote for the best NetSquared Innovation Fund Award nominated projects until Saturday, April 14th at Noon PDT. You can cast your ballot for the projects that you think most effectively use the social web for social change. The complete list of projects can be found here. Creative Commons suggests.

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DECEMBER 16, 2008

The Pew Internet and American Life Project has issued its annual forecast of “ The Future of the Internet.” It offers predictions for the Internet in 2020. Here's the high points: The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the Internet for most people in the world in 2020.

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AUGUST 4, 2008

To help please vote for the Carpets for Communities project in an online charity competition by going to www.votechildren.org (it will redirect to our main website) and following the instructions to register and vote.

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OCTOBER 20, 2006

The session was called "Funding Technology Projects" and was moderated by Jeff Forster. Documentation of your project is important and get it disseminated so other people can benefit from your knowledge. It includes two funders, Doreen E. Boyce from the Buhl Foundation and Christopher J. I interviewed Christopher J.

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APRIL 9, 2008

" So, when she emailed me about her plans to raise money to visit Rwanda for this project , I made a contribution and circulated her request. During the America's Giving Challenge, when we dropped into 5th place and I thought the race was over, Jen activated her supportive network with this beautiful post, " To Cambodia With Love."

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JUNE 27, 2008

The reason I am excited about this project is because it represents a new area of inquiry for me as well as a chance to deepen my learning in the topics that I've been writing about here on this blog for years. Here's the project description (and it's evolving). Here's the project description (and it's evolving).

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JANUARY 9, 2007

I'd sure love an opportunity to spend a whole day in a room with Jay Dedman and Ryan Hodson shoulder-to-shoulder and learn about this project and more video making skills. The Indian team chooses all the stories and does the production. So, I asked them if they would help lead a GeekOut session at the NTC Conference in DC in April, 2007.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The panel session about innovation shared lessons learned from both Google employees who were working with projects as well the nonprofits. There was also a fantastic panel discussion on the way to apply Human-Centered design to AI projects and its importance. Clearly, the challenge was more than just the technology.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2007

This year, The March of Dimes continues to be a creative and innovative nonprofit user of social media with its Every Baby has a Story Tour project. Last year, The March of Dimes ran a flickr photo contest to help draw attention to premature births.

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JANUARY 25, 2006

I'm mentor for a blog project for young women from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia entitled YoungCaucasusWomen. Here's the project description from the site: Recruited from current FLEX. I hope you'll take some time to follow the project! The students will post a minimum of once a week on an assigned topic.

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OCTOBER 14, 2005

Netsquared is new project in its embryonic stages from Compumentor, the folks who have brought excellent technology resources to the nonprofit field. "What do you need that this project and the community that is just starting to evolve around it can provide?" What is it?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Google AI Impact Challenge attracted 2,602 applications from six continents and 119 countries, with projects addressing a wide range of issue areas, from education to the environment. . Most projects require partnerships to access both technical ability and sector expertise. For organizations, the guidelines include: .

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AUGUST 1, 2017

It is asking the simple question of how to improve a process, project, or even the meeting itself. This is a structured way to capture the lessons learned from any project, with the intent of improving future performance. It can also be used mid-way through a project or strategy or at the end. What works?

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

I did a post about the Steve Cliff and the Voterss Project and it reminded be that for over a year I've been attempting to do multimedia conversation and I have only been able to talk to myself! I have six tips on how to start a community tagging project: 1 Pick a compelling theme. s how we seeded our project.

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