Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 24, 2006

Not a very peaceful life for a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Her new memoir, Unbowed , is the kind of book that you put down every 50 pages and say to whomever is listening, "You're not going to believe what happened next." Maathai closes her book by saying, I am one of the lucky ones who lived to see a new beginning for my country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0. I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. I use pen and a note book to take notes! The Wisdom 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

College tuition in Cambodia compared to the US is not that much, for many young Cambodian women it is beyond their grasp. A college education for Keo Savon will change her life. Won’t you raise your hand in support of girls around the world?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Nowadays, some people say they donate in order to make an impact in somebody’s life. Creating a story for rewards will describe how each wish item can help your cause and make a difference in someone’s life. For example, $10 equals 1 book for a school, or $5 feeds a starving kid in Eastern Africa for a day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

On the first page of the 300 page manual in your hand, it was written, Throughout history, since the Egyptian Book of the Dead 6,000 years ago, people have believed that helping others was a key to happiness and good works.’. These fundamental values help children develop their philanthropic characters in life. Lead by Actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

million players’ in-game actions into real-world donations totaling $500,000, providing 250,000 books and $198,600 for fistula surgeries. Nick and Sheryl have continued their reporting on human rights violations around the globe in their new nonfiction book and documentary series, A Path Appears. ” Senate Immersion Module.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. book go directly to SEPTAR, the fledgling Special Education PTA of Redwood City. Life in Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Maybe the love of your life is allergic to roses or maybe he or she is trying to drop a few pounds, so chocolates (even if they are fair trade chocolates ) may not fly. What about making a donation to a charity in honor the special someone in your life. Do you have a special techie in your life who works for a nonprofit?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

My friend Gabriela Masala sent me some more good giftie ideas: For the children on her list, she bought High in the Clouds a children's book by Sir Paul McCartney, Geoff Dunbar and Phillip Ardagh. She and her husband and their local community also "adopted" a village in Africa of approximately 3,600 people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Some of her resolutions were to reconnect with her city council members, get more involved with youth outreach through the arts, and "stop saying 'Africa.' Africa is not a country. It was probably one of the best books I've read and definitely helped me to better understand the issue, and America's policies and history around it.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Facebook is the most popular site in the Spanish-speaking parts of the America, also the Middle East, and North Africa. Netflix for E-books. There are two new e-book subscription services. These services use a Netflix business model that allow subscribers to read as many books as you want for a monthly fee. All Things D.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Pratima: Designing the collateral for our MNM’s International Honors in November was a pretty intensive project because it covered everything from the invite collateral, appeals material, web-promo-content, slides, program book, banners. It was nice to design the whole package. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE PART OF THE DESIGN PROCESS?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. She was also featured in the book, The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career Into Gear and her art visioning work is showcased in The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life. How does it work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Loyal to the Sky received a Nautilus Book Award for world changing books. Britt Bravo: You talk in your book about how meditation and spiritual practices are an integral part of your activism. BB: Your whole book, Loyal to the Sk y, is a memoir, and it's your entire path to becoming an activist and an artist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. Luckily, there is no shortage of techniques and resources and books. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Of course, referring to the newish book by Seth Godin called Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? " Interesting site from NRDC called " itsyournature.org " An article about new features coming from social network sites that will prevent your personal and professional life colliding and resulting in embarrassment.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! History remembers Queen Anna Nzinga as one of the great female rulers of Africa. Do you love ladies in literature? Gertrude B.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

" to pursue your grassroots agenda in Africa. The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago. Mobile Voter Blog is the blog for organization Mobile Voter and they are currently working a book with Rock the Book entitled "Mobilizing Generation2.0: All the candidates. Using Web2.0

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

” Sickle cell is kind of a low, you know, visibility, but a high mortality rate in East Africa, and it’s not being addressed. We just recently we’ve got a project in Kenya with our partner Valley Light and their funding partner in America, Just One Africa. I’m a huge fan of the book “Essentialism.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. We also have thousands of adults with disabilities that pay a $50 a year subscription to be able to download all the books and newspapers they can read. We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 15, 2021

Whether you are just starting a career, making a mid-life change, or are looking for one last flourish before retirement, it’s important to dispel some of the common myths about working at a nonprofit. If you are starting a career with a nonprofit , know that it could be one of the toughest assignments of your life. Let’s dive in!

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MAY 23, 2022

Since 1991, the Harold Grinspoon Foundation (HGF) has invested more than $230M into a collection of programs seeking to make Jewish life and Jewish community more connected. As HGF’s investment into Jewish life has grown, so too has the need for a technology platform powerful and flexible enough to scale alongside the organization.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Companies participate and get to use the Fair Trade Certified label when they open their books and demonstrate that they bought direct from the farmers and paid a fair price. BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The new e-book Amplify Program Impact: 7 Trailblazer Strategies for Success with Salesforce shares the challenges and solutions facing many organisations looking to deliver best-in-class programs and services and what this means from a technology perspective. Expanding Your Reach. Aligning Across Affiliates.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

" We just thought you'd like to meet some of our great people here at TechSoup, through the books we're excited about. Because December has been "Read a New Book Month" they invited submissions on their Facebook page to encourage the people of nonprofitlandia to share book titles with each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

And, if they do, they need to read my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , to find out why that is not a great idea.). You can discuss life, love, and science—although he’s quick to warn that “I become absent-minded during light conversations that do not involve the physical properties of light.”. The main program is SMS based.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. We also have thousands of adults with disabilities that pay a $50 a year subscription to be able to download all the books and newspapers they can read. We provide accessible ebooks that can be spoken aloud, turned into Braille or large print.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

" We just thought you'd like to meet some of our great people here at TechSoup, through the books we're excited about. Because December has been "Read a New Book Month" they invited submissions on their Facebook page to encourage the people of nonprofitlandia to share book titles with each other.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

a set of “lego blocks”, rather than a static book or shrink-wrapped product. Think of a digital platform as: . a toolkit, not a bookshelf . a collaborative effort, not just a single department or team’s responsibility. a starting point for future work, not just a collection of past work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

For example, some of our women in Africa and India are interested in taking the ideas and the best practices that came out of this training into their regions. We have a woman in Africa who is helping to convene women for the World Social Forum. We have a woman who is designing educational programs for young women in Brooklyn.

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Achieve

JANUARY 20, 2016

The following is an excerpt from Derrick Feldmann’s latest book, Social Movements for Good: How Companies And Causes Create Viral Change. She realized that the life she had was much more privileged than most, even though she would be considered by many in the United States as a broke student just getting started in her career.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

Patton has written several books on the art and science of program evaluation , including Utilization-Focused Evaluation (4th ed., He is also the author of a book called "Getting to Maybe" about social change. He is also the author of a book called "Getting to Maybe" about social change. Gourma is in Africa.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

She joined Benetech so she could learn more about Bookshare and how it is making books and periodicals more accessible to people with print disabilities. She’s currently working on “spatial quantile regression” and has learned at Benetech how to use statistics to address real-life problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2011

It is a serious issue for professionals here in the US, especially if they work in education or youth service nonprofits. In many places in the world, sharing everything online can be a life and death matter particularly for activists working in certain countries.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

You hear them speak, or you read their book, or you listen to your podcast, and then you generally write to that person, or you go up to them, rush them at the end of a speech and say, "I'm a student, I want to get involved." A lot of them were books like, The Starfish and the Spider , The Purpose-Driven Church , and Blessed Unrest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. For US nonprofits, we turn to the the Pew Internet and America Life for studies and audience research about the hyper-connected.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 8, 2007

Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, and Africa's first elected female head of state. Mexico: Lydia Cacho, a journalist whose book, Los Demonios de Eden (Demons of Eden) , about a pedophile ring in Cancun, has put her life in danger.

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