Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

The initial cyberstrategy was to capitalize on the inmates' interest in music by using music as a means of teaching digital skills. He imagines a Jamaica ten years in 2008, ten years after the initial discussions about this project began. "We might imagine J amaica in 2008 that has become a remarkable leader in the world.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

Its easy to extrapolate from one bad experience/example and assume that corruption is rife throughout the sector, figuratively hiding in the kitchen cabinets, under the refrigerator, and even in the walls themselves. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Thats a pretty disturbing statistic! Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

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Philanthropy Arizona Research Feeds 40

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

Think elephants, for example.) Grasshoppers, for example.) Relatively few new museums are started each year, and those that do rarely fail (compared, for example, to the rate of start ups and failures for small businesses.) Change is more likely to be bad (maladaptive) than good.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 8, 2011

The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University recently distributed the results of a 2010 study, and all of the above were proven false. Additionally, the report cites the participation of 100 women in a specific 2008-09 campaign, which generated $141 million with a minimum gift of $1 million. Lets take a closer look at the findings.

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Research Indiana Philanthropy University 40

NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

As one example, you can view the building where Daum is located now, under construction in 2008. Usahidi , an interactive map-based information collection tool was born out of a need to capture and report post-election violence during Kenya’s 2008 presidential elections. And maybe that can teach us something about ourselves.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2011

In 2008, while working as a research director for IT security software for Aberdeen Group , I began researching green IT and sustainability. Through graduate work I was doing at UMass Dartmouth, I learned about the fantastic efforts being made to make the university sustainable. There’s always more to learn and more to teach.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

2008 study by Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton and colleagues : Researchers found giving to anyone other than themselves lifted participants’ happiness more than self-spending, despite participants’ predictions to the contrary. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.” ” — Chinese proverb.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

" --Favianna Rodriguez Below is the edited transcript of a Big Vision Podcast interview from November 13, 2008 with Favianna Rodriguez, a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. I'll start with some examples. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public. What is your messaging?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

And when I started in fundraising 12 years ago, we talked a lot about how we could get millennials or in my case, it was young alumni to give back to our university where I was fundraising for. And I saw some people asking about policy examples too. So I’m admittedly a millennial. It was really right after the financial crash.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

And when I started in fundraising 12 years ago, we talked a lot about how we could get millennials or in my case, it was young alumni to give back to our university where I was fundraising for. And I saw some people asking about policy examples too. So I’m admittedly a millennial. It was really right after the financial crash.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation on July 2, 2008. For example, in Kenya, only 7% of the population, of the labor force, has a job in the formal private sector. We started off with equipment, for example, in Kenya, for manufacturing low-cost building materials. None of those things interested me.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2007

"These skills, which one sees in action around the country with certain key individuals who seem to be able to bridge gaps between organizations and issue areas, we can teach them. And I think teaching them is probably the most important thing we can do right now." They are teachable. They are teachable.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. This year, 2008, is the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I am always a big believer in that. Walking your talk around human rights.

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