Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Just wanted to let all of you writers who blog, or who want to start blogging, know that I will be teaching two Blogging for Writers classes this fall. A one-day workshop at the Writing Salon in October, and a shorter session at the San Francisco Writing for Change Conference in November. Hope to see you at one of them!

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NTEN

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I was named to the inaugural class of Distinguished Fellows of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) in 2017, became a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) in 2001, and have traveled all over North America teaching fundraising and nonprofit management. I am starting to train to run a half-marathon next.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2019

Remember when you met a group of young people who wanted to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony? It’s a Coke® ad from 1971 and has been ranked as one of the most influential advertisements of all time. This ad demonstrates what was then new and innovative: linking a product with ideas of happiness and love. The History Channel.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Access to technology is important, but teaching computer and information technology skills is just as vital.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Use Nostalgia (old class photos) to Spark A Trip Down Memory Lane. With old class photos, you can leverage memes like “ Throw Back Thursday , like in this example from Reshet Ramah , a network of alumni from across the globe. ” 3. Many schools probably have wonderful archival photos – it’s a gold mine for engagement.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2012

I began writing this blog post as I sat in the NMI 122 class , Digital Communications: Social Media Tools & Strategies. While promoting the Lodestar Center's Nonprofit Management Institute at a Teach for America event, I met a gentleman who said, "I'm not interested. I'm done with classes." Do I have a Facebook page?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

America didn’t seem like such a mess in the foreign media. That said, I often joke to friends that when I retire from online activism/communications I am going to open a print book and stationary store that serves martinis, plays Pandora, and offers free handwriting classes. VIDEO: HTML All Writers Need to Know.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Year Up is just one of the five nonprofit organizations Microsoft has partnered with along with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, City Year, Junior Achievement USA (JA), and Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. Currently, Mackey is working at McCann-Erickson Worldgroup as a Desktop Support Level I. Libraries Building Bridges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

Robin Yap left a comment that he was leaving for Manila to teach social media to educational technology students, so I decided to part with my cherished copy of Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging. Opened in 2006, the school offers computer classes every morning utilizing ten donated laptops and a few older desk tops.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

It was there that she discovered her passion for teaching others: "When I was working with kids with autism or ADHD, something happened within me where I identified with their experiences. … Without GoToMeeting, there would have been no way to teach the kids. Inspiring Optimism Through Results. " Working on a Dream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Each chapter offers drop-in tutoring, field trips, workshops, and in-schools programs -- all free of charge -- for children, classes, and schools with particular interests or particular needs. San Francisco to teaching reading in Atlanta, to rebuilding homes and lives in the Gulf coast communities. The organization works to educate.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

I had just read a paper about the LINCOS project in Central America, so this was fresh in my mind. To my delight, the Akshay Pratishthan school had a focus on teaching students with disabilities: roughly half the students had disabilities and were mainstreamed with students without disabilities. She's very sharp!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Recent reports have alluded to class and race divisions between MySpace and Facebook users. In fact, I think MySpace is probably the best online representative of our society in terms of race and class that exists on the Web today, but it is incorrect to assume that MySpace is only a community of poor people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 19, 2007

Speakers include Julia Butterfly Hill of Circle of Life , John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America , and Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart. If you are a environmentally conscious yoga studio or instructor, you can join the Green Yoga Association, and check out this month's "green" issue of Yoga Journal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To I observed Mam Sari, our head English teacher (and computer geek) teach a Google search lesson and captured video above. I know it is difficult without being there.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

million people through national media outreach, including an appearance on "Good Morning America." New Heights provides families with tutoring services , a library with more than 3,000 books, field trips, and online classes. The organization's project on Last Polar Bear reached 26.5

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

This year's speaker was journalist, Samantha Power , who received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. Anya Achtenberg will be teaching an online workshop, Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World, later this year. You can subscribe to her blog here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. Beth's 51st Birthday : This was part of an overall campaign for the America's Giving Challenge in 2008 for the Sharing Foundation that raised over $50,000.

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Im going to be mentioning your partnership in speeches I give and in classes I teach as I move forward and I only hope others learn to emulate you in other areas. Great work. October 7, 2008 | Paul Greenberg Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

One of my favorite articles was "The American Family Grows Up" by Neil Pollack which describes how, "middle-class American families are being forced to live, almost entirely, without a net", which he exemplifies with a story about his son putting a rock up his nose. I chose UNICEF. Photo from GOOD Magazine Flickr Stream.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Academic Classes. Private Classes and Tutoring. Academic Classes. This rigor is achieved through traditional tests, papers, class discussions (whether synchronously online or in person, or through online discussion boards) and of course, grading. Some are a short list of core classes. Private Classes and Tutoring.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

You have to take action either by taking a class, doing an informational interview, volunteering, interning, going to an event, or taking a job in the field that interests you. For example, at one point, I thought I wanted to be a massage therapist, but then I took a massage class, and realized I had to massage naked people I didn't know.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Collaborate with peers from across North America who understand your challenges. The Conference itself includes philanthropy classes ranging from individual donors, planned giving, and marketing/social media subjects. Association for Healthcare Philanthropy / San Antonio, TX / TBD. General / @AHPIntl. Fundraising & Grants.

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DipJar

APRIL 19, 2021

To build your brand, education on your discipline (theater), your mission (bringing theater to schools), your history (launched X years ago when theater classes were being cut from your city’s school budgets), and storytelling (giving your staff and volunteers the language to discuss your work), are all important marketing objectives to consider.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Such a mission deserves best-in-class technology that facilitates and empowers the organization’s work in any way it can. Success Story: Creating Equity in Education With Teach For America + Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Success Story: The University of Alabama at Birmingham: Transforming Student Journeys Through Salesforce.

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Achieve

JUNE 7, 2021

After all, our mission was all about teaching. Yet across the table was an educational leader who denied that teaching could have any impact. It was the late 1980s and I was signing up for the first class in the first master’s program in philanthropy and development in the country, at St. surprised to hear that declaration.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

In America, I think oftentimes one of the first things that gets cut are people's food budgets. At the end of 2008, I initiated a new project called the Grow. Grub Project. It is in response to the current economic crisis that we're in, and the reality that people are spending less money.

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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. Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So what we’re seeing is a shrinking of the middle class that historically provided the base, the backbone of most donor programs. . Jimmie Alford, one of the great fundraisers in America, told me a story a few years ago, which was about this volunteer who had to raise money for mental health in a community. It takes time. .

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

The dollars that are being given in America are moving from the middle class to the wealthy, from income to assets, and from boomers to millennials. So in other words, philanthropy is shifting from the middle-class boomers to people like Mark Zuckerberg. It is a new asset class that is a lot of opportunity.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. And so I’ve been so grateful to be able to help thousands of folks through my classes, through my courses, through one-on-one work, through training, conferences. And I don’t know how she has time for all this stuff. And Paris, you are so right.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

The dollars that are being given in America are moving from the middle class to the wealthy, from income to assets, and from boomers to millennials. So in other words, philanthropy is shifting from the middle-class boomers to people like Mark Zuckerberg. It is a new asset class that is a lot of opportunity.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

This literally takes them from below the poverty line into the middle class. It took us about 15 years in America before cell phones actually took off, and people started buying a cell phone. That's true in America, but it's even more so where we're working. All of a sudden now, they're living on $1400 - $1500 a year.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I could practically teaching this class. In America, that is definitely not how most of the police officers that I have spoken with would expect somebody to act at a traffic stop. Just curious, when it comes to strategic planning, are you newer to it, are you somewhat familiar, or are you very experienced? Move aside, Julie.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

We can no longer be America-centric. We need to make this bilingual, and we need to really encourage more artists from Latin America." I remember having to walk into his house and saying, "You know, dude, I'm going to teach you how to paint a mural. Every single topic you can imagine was on there. So, we did. He was 15.

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