Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2015

As I push this post live, I’m gathered in Austin, TX, for the 16th annual bbcon – Blackbaud’s conference for the philanthropic community. This two-day camp is focused on teaching disadvantaged kids about careers in technology. In Austin, TX, we partner with Latinitas , helping them to teach young girls to code.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Based on Austin, Texas, I caught up with Connie to find how she is using Social Media raise money for victims of Hurricane Ike and other recent social media fundraising causes. I acquired my love of my words from my mom, who started teaching me to read when I was three, and who still, at age 84, delights in beating me at word games.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

" Legacy of Hope Austin. Legacy of Hope Austin is a Texas-based arts charity that's created the 2dance2dream program , providing a way for children with special needs to express themselves through movement and music. Image 4: Legacy of Hope Austin. They said you want an example? You mean everything we do, every day?"

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Austin, Texas: Google AdWords for Nonprofits. Austin, Texas: Communicating with Impact: Adobe Spark | #Storymakers2017. Austin, Texas: Engaging the Millennial Donor. Kampala, Uganda: Teaching Youths the Dangers of the Internet. Sunday, September 17, 2017. Tuesday, September 19, 2017. Thursday, October 19, 2017.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2015

501 Tech Club Austin in Austin, Texas. How Are We Fostering Tech Innovation in Teaching and Learning? We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Check out our newest groups: NetSquared St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri. Nonprofit Neighbors Tech Club in Kansas City, Missouri. NetSquared Zambia in Lusaka, Zambia.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

Google plans to roll it out in Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah as well. The idea is to engage these residents and wherever possible to teach them how to use digital devices, provide Internet access through computer labs or classes, and provide them with very low-cost home computers. The Community Driven Fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

He plans to use the grant to create a training program to teach homeless people to use social media tools to tell their own story. I had the opportunity to watch him work first hand as he gave pizza for some of Austin's homeless outside the bars where other SXSW attenders were having a good time at parties. He doesn't give up.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Dedicated to encouraging other nonprofit and cause-driven organizations to use film and video to tell their stories, LCH hosts the annual Nonprofit Film Festival in Austin. LCH is the perfect place for him to learn, teach, share, and work to make the world, or at least a small part of it, a better place.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2012

University, he teaches thousands of marketers, change-makers, and. His work has been recognized by the Mayor of Austin and featured in the NYTimes, CNN, Forbes, and NPR. Michael Margolis is president of Get Storied , and host of the Reinvention Summit, the world's largest virtual. conference on storytelling in the digital age.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

I know it is here in Austin and that sparked a memory for me: my first lesson in customer appreciation. One Girl Scout Cookie season, when I was all dolled up in my Brownie uniform and selling cookies, my dad decided he was going to teach me the value of saying “thank you.”

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2019

The University of Texas at Austin just announced a new endowment providing free tuition for students from families with incomes less than $65,000. Invite current students to participate in the fundraising process to teach them about scholarship fundraising and form the habit of giving back.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Innovation is officially one of Convio’s core values and something every employee is evaluated on, so it was a good topic for me to dig into last week when I attended the Texas Nonprofit Summit here in Austin. From “Stop Competing… Start Innovating!". The theme was officially “Leading the Charge for Social Change.”

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Philanthropy Southwest / Austin, TX / $125. SXSW / Austin, TX / Price varies. At the AMA Nonprofit Marketing Conference, we’ll teach you how to reach a bigger audience on a smaller budget, and transform your marketing dollars into maximum impact. ARNOVA / Austin, TX / TBD. Fundraising & Grants/ @CASEAdvance.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The Finalists are: Adoption Coalition of Texas , Austin, Texas Community Voice Mail Federation , Seattle, Washington Feed More, Inc. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? The winner of the $250,000 prize will be announced in April, and is chosen by a Final Selection Panel of national experts chaired by Sterling Speirn , CEO of the W.K.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 27, 2018

Behavioral economics teaches us how humans behave—especially how we behave irrationally. United Way of Greater Austin offers some great impact statements on their donation page: 5. And as I discuss below, you can still get this info at a better time. Nudge Your Donors Upward. One such irrational behavior is known as “anchoring.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2006

Johnson School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas at Austin. Here is a definition from the Campus Compact site : Service-learning is a teaching method which combines community service with academic instruction as it focuses on critical, reflective thinking and civic responsibility.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

Austin and colleagues reiterate the commercial turn thesis , as does Dees. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Young and Salamon suggest that new commercial orientations are perhaps the dominant force shaping the nonprofit sector , following from Youngs strong claims about rapidly growing commerciality in the late 1990s.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

There's one woman who -- I think it was in Austin, Texas -- she collected an entire container load full of things for an orphanage in Haiti, using Freecycle. So instead of getting a truckload of winter coats, they could just say, "Well, I need a bed, I need a chair," and the local communities everywhere were able to help them.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Philanthropy Southwest / Austin, TX / $625. SXSW / Austin, TX / Price varies. Governance / @usdsoles. Governance. 2016 Nonprofit Organizations Institute. 2016 Nonprofit Organizations Institute. Jan 13 - 15.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2010

We often carry socks filled with water and energy bars to give to the homeless on Austin’s streets. Rachel my high school senior who was quoted in the Austin American Statesman this weekend around her efforts to support a single mom and her child and is helping with a nonprofit called "Saving Sofie."

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. I have a few topics that I am passionate and knowledgeable about and happy to teach or help others interested in learning more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Can teach field to use. Teach chapters to document their own disasters on their own newsrooms so we can aggregate a national picture of data of how much the org does in a day when you won’t hear a word about it. Austin is no different. set goals: decrease number of incoming media calls. offer reliable situational awareness. .

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

And in my work, when I started teaching and training people influence, I realized, “If I can teach you influence, marketing is so much easier. All of these concepts that I’m teaching you are rooted in abundance, which means there’s enough out there for all of us. Fundraising is so much easier. “Yeah.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I was a ski bum for a winter, and landed one week in Austin, Texas and got a job waiting tables. When I did a little digging, I realized that aside from threatening our water supply in Austin, Texas, they had sufficiently done that in Indonesia, and the Philippines and pretty much all over the world. But you know, it teaches you a lot.

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