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Postcard From Alaska

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My First Trip to Alaska. The photo above is me at age 14 in Alaska with my mom. I being a typical teenager who didn’t want to be away from her friends, so I really didn’t enjoy the natural wonders of Alaska and even refused to eat a salmon dinner. Welcome To Alaska. Tags: Conferences alaska.

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Streamline Your Charity Golf Tournament with Software Solutions

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Take a page out of the Employee Assistance Fund (EAF) of Alaska Airlines ‘ playbook. Auction Powerhouse: Greater Giving’s software facilitated both silent and live auctions, allowing the EAF to accept bids from remote participants and maximize their fundraising potential.

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Alaska: And The Earth Shook Under My Feet

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Ironically, it was during a session facilitated by Phil Klein called “Tackling the Unexpected&# who shared insights about he took back his life after surviving a cancer diagnosis. Then off to an evening session at PRSA-Alaska Chapter at the Providence Center Cancer Center to talk about the Networked Nonprofit.

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What Improvisation Can Teach Social Change Leaders

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I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills.

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A Kiva.org for Native American Entrepreneurs?

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Kiva.org facilitates ordinary people, like you and me, making loans online to entrepreneurs in the "developing" world. Census Bureau , the 2007 poverty rate of people who reported they were American Indian and Alaska Native, and no other race, was 25.3%. According to the U.S.

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A History of How Modern ESG Came to Be

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Additionally, this decade saw several environmental disasters at the hands of companies including a massive oil spill in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Read more about the history of Earth Day here. . . This disaster in particular lead to the founding of the Coalition of Environmentally Responsible Companies, also known as CERES.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

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From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. I spent a number of years traveling and working in communities throughout China and Russia and Alaska, working with communities where the problems were right in their face.

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