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In Search of Bachelors and Philanthropy in Rural Alaska and Video Story Capture Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, my adventure in Alaska started with a meeting with representatives from community foundations around the state of Alaska hosted by the Alaska Community Foundation. Joe Page met us in town and we reviewed the Bachelor catalog looking for a good subject to interview. Click to play.

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Fighting for a cause

ASU Lodestar Center

My internship took place at Fairbanks Youth Advocates in Fairbanks, Alaska. I was in Alaska for the summer as an AmeriCorps Summer Crew Leader. There weren’t many options in Alaska, so I had to expand my search. This gave me the tools to develop the steps to get the program going. Then we conducted volunteer interviews.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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Funding Personal and Social Transformation: Paula Sammons, Seasons Fund

Have Fun - Do Good

Kellogg Foundation, was kind enough to tell me more about the Fund's work in the following e-interview. And Social Justice Leadership, a group that offers tools and trainings to grassroots organizers in New York City. Why is it important to fund projects like these at this time?

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Peer-to-Peer Crowdfunding Myths & How To Ensure Success

The Modern Nonprofit

Below we’ll outline the strategies and the tools you’ll need. Noble Paws teaches people with disabilities to run their own dog team, which was a very unique idea in Alaska. Within weeks of putting out the press release, they got calls to be featured on local radio and were asked for written interviews.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

You can listen to my interview with Jensine on the Big Vision Podcast website, or on iTunes. They wanted more training in-depth, and they wanted to really learn how to use all these different tools to get ahead in life and advance their dreams. Tags: Big Vision Podcast interview. I've posted an edited transcript below.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. Like there'll be times where I'm really interested in food issues, and I'm interviewing and talking to people about that.

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