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APRIL 9, 2007

For the past five years, I've coordinated the NTEN/NTC Day of Service and before that participated as a volunteer. The Day Before the Day of Service is always a crazy blur for me because I'm generally in the office our local partner, along with Cheryl Hanback , generating the last version of the check-in list, name tags, and materials.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Day Of Service View more presentations from Peter Campbell. There is always a full menu of networking sessions, affinity group meetings, conference panels, activities, and of course, The Day of Service. I participated in my first Day of Service in 2001 as a volunteer. tags: nten 09ntc ). The locations: St.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2008

The ComcastCares Twitter account is an example of how businesses are using Twitter and other social web tools for customer support and service. Is anyone using Twitter to provide answers or customer service to their audiences via Twitter (or even via a blog)? It made me wonder if any nonprofits have started to use Twitter in this way.

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APRIL 16, 2009

There was a deluge of sympathy expressions because the funeral and memorial service were taking place. I drew a blank, so I clicked over and started to read the Twitter stream. I discovered that a premature baby named Madeline (Maddie) Sphor had passed away last week.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Want to see an online documentary from 2000 that shows scenes from the first ever Day of Service held in Kansas City in March, 2000? One of my clients is NTEN and for the past five years I've been hired to help coordinate the NTC Day of Service on April 4thi n Washington, DC. Click here. It was created by Sean O'Brien from The W.

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OCTOBER 19, 2008

Today, I'm participating in a Day of Service along with almost 200 conference participants at two of their partner sites, the Capital Area Food Bank and Friendship Public Charter School - both organizations address hunger and poverty issues.  The qik video documents some of the tasks the volunteers are doing today.

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OCTOBER 19, 2008

I started my  Day of Service experience at Friendship Public Charter School  at the Southeast Elementary Academy  in the school cafeteri where volunteers were hard at work painting two murals.      Both murals illustrate the idea of nutritional eating.  

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MARCH 11, 2008

Photo from the first Day of Service that Cheryl and I coordinated in Orlando 2002 with Joel Remegio. For the past 7 years, one of my gigs has been to organize the Day of Service for NTEN's NTC. We even won the Swimming Upstream Award!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

Today I was part of an awesome social media capture team for the Share Our Strength Day of Service at the Capital Area Food Bank. Click to play. Thought I'd share this video. Great work!

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JUNE 27, 2008

Allison Fine, who authored " Social Citizens" , a paper recently released by The Case Foundation on the intersection of Millennials, social change and social media, wonders whether it time for nonprofit leaders to extol the virtue of government service? but is it time for nonprofit leaders to extol the virtue of government service?

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MARCH 24, 2008

The Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN sponsors the Day of Service , an opportunity for nonprofit techies to share their knowledge with the local community. The Day of Service consisted of strategy consults at the hotel in the morning, a wireless installation project at the Community Center St.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Launched in August by a local government social service agency in Canada, the AI system analyzes the personal data of participants to calculate who is likely to have nowhere to sleep for an extended period. Here’s just one example of the ethical issues we need to anticipate as we embrace AI. There are concerns.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2006

My colleague, Cheryl Hanback , is organizing the annual "Night Before The Day of Service Dinner." Curious about the Day of Service, you can read more here. Curious about the Day of Service, you can read more here. And, if you still haven't picked your day of service project, there are still a few more to choose from.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

Bayou Animal Services. Galveston Animal Rescue Service. Here’s a list of suggestions from people in my network: United Way of Houston. Covenant Hous e (helping homeless youth). PortLight “Inclusive Disaster Relief” SPCA of Texas. Jewish Federation of Greater Houston. Texas Diaper Bank. YMCA Houston.

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JULY 11, 2008

Okay, how many times have you thought that when you tried to access a site and you got that message. Now, here's a way to check it. It's called " Down for everyone or is it just me ?" " I really needed to end today with a little fun.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Last week I was got to work on a week-long service trip in Cusco, Peru as part of Wake: Women’s Alliance for Knowledge Exchange #Tech2empower program where womwn in who work in technology volunteer to share their professional skills and knowledge with women-run business owners. Training in breeding is part of the program.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

When staff at SOS Children’s Villages International , which cares for children impacted by the Syrian refugee crisis, learned a five-year-old in Syria needed critical heart surgery, they used the cloud storage service OneDrive to quickly assemble photo and video assets into a pitch to international donors.

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JUNE 6, 2013

Countless organizations could benefit from Kyle’s skills, yet there is no system connecting national service alumni with nonprofits and public sector agencies most in need of young talent. at Points of Light’s Conference on Volunteering and Service << LINK www.volunteeringandservice.org >>, which runs from June 19 – 22.

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MAY 15, 2014

Earlier this week, a mixed crowd of entrepreneurs, investors, start ups, nonprofits, social activists, and others came together for the inaugural conference on Catalyzing the Sharing Economy defined as the use of networked, mobile, information technology to share goods and services. Think AirBNB and Uber, but it is much more than that.

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MARCH 21, 2022

We are also facing a nonprofit workforce crisis with an increase of demand for services and people leaving their jobs due unrealistic workloads & toxic work environments that lead to burnout. Burnout rates were an issue in the nonprofit sector (why I wrote the Happy Healthy Nonprofit in 2016) but now they are skyrocketing.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

It is great to have a day of fun before starting an intense week working on service projects. This was a very empowering icebreaker – and a great way to get to know a little bit more about the people I will spending the next week with on a service project here in Cusco, Peru. Tech2Empower Kanika Raney.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

Many of us know about Goodwill as a place to donate goods or shop, can you give us an overview of your other programs and services? These Goodwill services include career counseling, computer training, English as a second language courses, resume or interview preparation, mentoring, transportation, child care and more.

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MARCH 15, 2012

That was the question in the “The Intertwining Services Funding with Policy Initiatives to Achieve Systems Change” session at GEO. Funders develop service delivery projects, in this case around behavioral health, and used the efforts to facilitate policy change. Well…can you have your cake and eat it too?

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

For nearly three decades, the “power and control wheel” ( [link] ) has been the standard tool within the DV victim services field to describe the most common tactics used to control and abuse victims. This has sometimes led to the impulse to control the set of services that a survivor receives. Many unanswered questions remain.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

I’m in Jacksonville, Florida today to open the plenary session of the Legal Services Corporation Technology Innovation Grant Annual gathering. In today’s complicated and networked world, legal services organizations need to adapt and improve their programs and fine tune their networks at a much faster pace than ever before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2007

I'm in DC and haven't been blogging! That's Matthew Coffman from NPower Greater DC Region who has been working with Cheryl Hanback and I to pull together the event materials. We're done! Now to get ready for tonight's dinner!

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JANUARY 18, 2018

The PI was explicitly designed for nonprofits with budgets over $3 million because those organizations serve the vast majority of people receiving nonprofit services in the US. No longer small, with a budget over $5 million, the organization began work to become a high-performing nonprofit in 2007.

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MAY 4, 2017

at Social Sector Accelerator, a member of the Counterpart International Network, has been doing research on this topic: Is it possible to effectively measure the impact such “capacity building” services have? My colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director.

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JULY 1, 2013

Surfers that participate in an offline paddle out memorial service, paddle out to a suitable location with flower leis around their necks or with loose flowers (sometimes held between their teeth). Often these services take place at sunrise or sunset. Afterward, they paddle back toward the beach to begin their surf session.

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MAY 6, 2013

The third year now expands the program into a “train the trainer” model. The master class is part of a, NEA-funded experiment being conducted by arts service organizations like Theatre Bay Area all across the country. Trainers from arts service organizations will train their members.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

I had the privilege of attending an event for A Billion + Change , a national campaign to mobilize billions of dollars in skills-based and pro bono volunteer services to help build the capacity of nonprofit organizations to effectively meet community needs.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

This week I was honored to teach a Happy Healthy Nonprofit Workshop at the 1440 Multiversity Nonprofit Service Week. This week I was honored to teach a Happy Healthy Nonprofit Workshop at the 1440 Multiversity Nonprofit Service Week. … Read More

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JUNE 6, 2016

At Blackbaud , we get very excited and inspired by our nonprofit customers’ successes and breakthroughs –it constantly drives us to look for ways to improve our technology and customer service to ensure organizations can focus on their vital work while operating and communicating as efficiently and effectively as possible.

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JULY 9, 2012

Consumer feedback offers critical information to funders, non-profit organizations, and the low-income people who use services and programs. And they will find the reviews of others helpful and empowering for their program and service decisions. With a good feedback system in place programs can be held accountable to those they serve.

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MAY 15, 2020

Custom Zoom Backgrounds (Paid Service). Zoom Security Issues & Fixes. Advanced Zoom Tips (Grove Consulting). Example of Reminder Letter (Susan Partnow). Fun Zoom Backgrounds. Canva – Zoom Backgrounds & Templates (1280×720 px). More Fun Zoom Backgrounds. How To Look Good on Camera (NY Times).

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

In fact, it has now become normal for us to “outsource” tasks, sell, and share goods and services all within our own social circles. In the end, personal service often results in positive reviews, recommendations, and another visit down the road. Naturally, our buying behaviors have radically changed as a result of this trend.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

His new project is a social media literacy website to help homeless people learn how to use the Internet to tell their stories, build community and connect with support services. If you work with a homeless services agency, library, or other social service agency that provides services to this group, you need to connect to this work!

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