Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. Rather than just talk about the campaign, students has to participate.

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Tech Soup

JULY 22, 2011

The new program is now accepting applications and students can take the courses from anywhere. A new international, dual-university online green IT certificate program will be launching as a joint effort between the University of Washington Professional & Continuing Education and the University of British Columbia.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

Human rights workers collect massive amounts of information about abuse that occurs in their countries—the individual stories are compelling, but scientific analysis of the collective data can inspire action. The analysis made news globally and expanded an international conversation.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Nonprofit teams have a lot on their plates: not only do they have to run their programs as best they can to help their beneficiaries, but they have to run their internal organization also. How rigorous or complex should the analysis of impact data be? How closely should they track those changes?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2011

The article describes Guzmán’s presentation of key evidence in the trial of two former Guatemalan National Police agents accused of forcibly disappearing 26-year-old student and union leader Edgar Fernando García. Guzmán and his colleagues at Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group spent four years intensely analyzing the documents.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

DREAM’s annual report is doing everything right: beautiful images, student stories, and (of course) thanking their donors. We especially love how they paired a full-page image of a student with key stats that support the organization’s overall mission, a mix of showing and telling. offers a profound analysis of #MeToo.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

They wanted to help students and teachers who were teaching from home that needed curriculum ideas and ways to engage their students in this new virtual environment.”. Rachel Nova is a nonprofit professional with ten years of international experience in volunteer management, refugee resettlement, and education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

Where together with their partner, Net Impact , EDF embeds trained MBA students who identify energy efficiency improvements that can cut costs and reduce emissions. Blurring the lines between internal/external: What does modeling transparent behavior actually look like on the ground? Sharing internal presentations on slideshare.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

I announced in this blog last month that judges in Guatemala had found two former police officers guilty in the 1984 forced disappearance of Guatemalan student and union leader Edgar Fernando García. The archive includes documents generated during Guatemala’s internal armed conflict which took place from 1960 to 1996.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 18, 2024

The increase in 2020 disposable income contributed to those at the top nonprofits at which to work being willing to say “My pay is fair for the work I perform” in 2021’s analysis (83%) than did in 2024 (76%), while among the also-ran nonprofits agreement with that sentiment dropped from 67% to 61% during the same period.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Benetech Statistical Expert Testifies in Guatemala Disappearance Case The Benetech Human Rights Program uses cutting edge computing methods and statistical analysis to provide objective evidence of human rights violations. Will share more details from our team later, but this is a great day for fighting impunity around forced disappearances.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re thrilled that students and other readers who have disabilities that keep them from reading standard print can now read the same books as their peers, using the same devices. With our Read2Go app, Bookshare members can now search, download and read Bookshare books and periodicals on their iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

OCTOBER 14, 2016

These are the folks who will raise awareness of the coming need for technology professionals who can provide data analysis and other data services to nonprofits, and guide them to the next rung of the career ladder. students in this field. And that’s just UMass-Boston!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convene on a wiki to review research, practice, and significant trends. It also has benefits to students themselves who can use the data to customize their participation in the class.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

students, we also serve adults, seniors, veterans, and international subscribers in over 40 countries. We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India. While the majority of our members are U.S.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our second Impact Lab recently announced the Financial Aid Chatbot to support students as they navigate the FAFSA application. CTO, Greenpeace International. Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Well, from the planning and analysis side, that is. Do you have volunteers, interns, or adjunct staff? Maybe you work with schools so you have segments for teachers, administrators, parents, students, and then groups outside of the school. These are a few tips for internal and external reporting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. I found this book invaluable as an adjunct professor at the Monterey Institute for International Studies when teaching graduate courses. by Jane Bozarth, Editor. This like having a playbook from the best of the best instructional designers and trainers.

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

Our volunteer program plays an important role in providing the MacEwan student body with much-needed resources, services, and programs that would otherwise be unattainable without the support and commitment of volunteers,” said Tosheena Thompson, Volunteer Manager for Students Association of MacEwan University.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The nonprofit privacy rights community was fully mobilized including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, ACLU, Free Press Access, Demand Progress, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Mozilla Foundation, and many commercial web companies. so more students will have good access to the Internet. Safer Internet Day.

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Gyrus

APRIL 5, 2018

To accomplish this all you need to do is perform a little internal research. An analysis through an in-depth survey accompanied by a few short one-on-one interviews with the projected user base and decision makers within the organization can aid tremendously. How important are academic achievements in predicting workforce performance?

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Susan Chavez, Nonprofit Social Media Consultant, Association of Junior Leagues International. Members of the NTEN Research Committee serve by sharing ideas for new projects, providing feedback on existing research and analysis, and support outreach for surveys, report launches, and research partners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

students about environmental issues, Adventure Ecology is one example of a growing field of ???serious??? video games that raise awareness about issues like poverty and international strife, and help players assess strategies for solving them. Reading the Teacher's section and Ben's analysis: It???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Make sure that you good internal system for sharing any updates that might come in through fundraising office or other school connections. This example from Teach for America is a photograph of handwritten thank you note from a student to an TFA alumni thanking them for making a difference.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies. We never expected that data analysis would be the key to success for such a company. Mazzeo : One recurring theme was about growth and scaling.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The Discovery Center is a one-hour simulation in which groups of students (grade 5 and up) role play in a realistic, interactive environment. The students are each given roles on one of three teams--the Oval Office, a military command center, and a press room. The topic is the invasion of Grenada. You will make history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

In addition, I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers and am now an Adjunct Professor at the Monterey Institute for International Studies (a graduate school of Middlebury College). You also want to document your training. My lesson plan includes a process documentation strategy of what and how I will document.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2014

While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies. We never expected that data analysis would be the key to success for such a company. Mazzeo : One recurring theme was about growth and scaling.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 2, 2014

While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies. We never expected that data analysis would be the key to success for such a company. Mazzeo : One recurring theme was about growth and scaling.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Better yet, the graduate student who led this project, Anna Greco, documented the whole project and did in-depth analysis of the visitor contributions. Anna Greco did research in three ways: through in-person interviews with participants, surveys with participants, and observational analysis of the jars themselves.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

If your organization provides after-school support, you serve students and may provide academic enrichment, social opportunities, and activities. What about your students’ families? Should supporting the families of the students you serve be part of your mission? They need food and your organization provides it.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Stacey Marie Garcia came to the MAH first as a graduate intern in the summer of 2011. To apply the results of my analysis to produce a community-driven program design specifically for implementation at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (the MAH). Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

To encourage investigation at the level of *system* rather than the isolated individual issues that get funders' attention, she proposes building a simplified conceptual model for health data that will help students, funders, and researchers--and the general public, too--gain greater insight into systemic data collection issues and solutions.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 21, 2016

As we thought more expansively about partnerships, a question was asked about what role students across the world can play in the SDGs and how can they participate. This struck a chord that finally we are thinking in the right direction and internalizing that everyone really does have a role to play here.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Many in philanthropy now have titles or job descriptions that include creative words like knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis. In education circles, we often ask, “How many students, in a particular school or city, have demonstrated a level of proficiency in a subject area?”

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 27, 2021

Cloud for Good provides Salesforce implementation services for institutions looking to modernize their platform to meet the ever-changing needs of students, staff, and faculty. This will provide prospective students with a consistent, data-backed experience no matter who they speak to on the recruitment & admissions team.

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