Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Mary Mwende told us about her journey from Mombasa, Kenya, to being one of ten girls chosen for the Global Give Back Circle , a mentoring and empowerment program. We are so excited to announce that, thanks to the generous donations of the community, in less than 24 hours $100,000 has already been donated.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 25, 2011

As a member of the board of YNPN (Young Nonprofit Professionals Network) Phoenix, I have been fortunate to cross paths with some extraordinary emerging leaders, facilitators, mentors, and nonprofit sector thought leaders. Join more than 300 nonprofit leaders, community members, and business professionals at our Annual Nonprofit Conference!

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

In Philadelphia, many polling places are difficult to find, hidden deep in the recesses of schools, churches, and community centers. Over the course of our 24-week voter engagement campaign, NSD hired 60 artists to create 60 “Vote Here/Vote Aqui” signs. The artists came from more than 20 different Philadelphia neighborhoods.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2006

This week Beth Kanter and I finished our week being mentors for the Young Caucasus Women Project. Last Sunday each of us wrote a post to answer the question, “Who is your favorite artist (visual, dancer, performer, writer or musician) and why?” Here is Beth's post and here is mine. You can put the info. art activism social change

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

"You cannot run a community if you're not informed. Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help." --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us Britt Bravo: Why is this necessary?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

This approach focuses on listening and looking at the infrastructure and DNA of the conservation community with humility, imagination, and curiosity. These new leaders wouldn’t self-identify as environmentalists, but would be motivated to continue driving victories for their communities. Concept 2: Mission: Possible.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. It has to be an inner city community. We love it.

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APRIL 6, 2021

Gorman spoke with the poise and self-confidence of an artist who has been performing her whole life, but just a few years ago she was a shy teenager who was apprehensive about sharing her work – a “skinny girl with a speech impediment who needed a mentor,” in her words.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. Heroes I admired from afar became friends and mentors. Seek out mentors.

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MARCH 16, 2017

But her experience and those of the residents in her community inspired her greatest work, A Raisin in the Sun , the first play written by an African American to be produced on Broadway. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art. Edmonia Lewis. Dorothy Arzner. Roxane Gay.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2021

Gorman spoke with the poise and self-confidence of an artist who has been performing her whole life, but just a few years ago she was a shy teenager who was apprehensive about sharing her work – a “skinny girl with a speech impediment who needed a mentor,” in her words.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The mission of World of Good, as a company, is to create the largest distribution system for fair trade, handmade items from artists' and women's cooperatives around the world. Each one is made in a community where it is actually creating a sustainable economic development opportunity in that community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists. That there was this notion that the dance community is inherently political, and I thought well, not really. First of all, who identifies with the word "activism"? Can I just see?

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