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JULY 19, 2022

I have been reading a book called “Be Yourself” to my 7- and 5-year-old daughters. The book mainly talks about the concept of self-fulfillment; some might feel fulfilled to be princesses while others may feel really bored sitting in a palace all day. Specifically, cures for diseases, hunger, and local community needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

I read the book. I was going to write a review and do a book giveaway, but I stumbled upon Wiser Earth blogger Angus Parker's excellent review. We have read a lot of books over the last year that aimed to be the "go to" source for understanding Social Media. Note from Beth: I got a review copy. It rocked.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Headhunter, Rob Barnett , distills everything he’s learned about getting hired into his new book, Next Job, Best Job. Candidly and step-by-step, with a book chapter devoted to each of the 11 strategies, Barnett teaches you how to: Regain confidence and optimism after a job loss. Barnett : Chapter 11 in my book is not about bankruptcy.

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MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . First Book. The Emeril Lagasse Foundation provides grants related to nutrition and culinary education, life skills development, childhood hunger, and arts education.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2021

Headhunter, Rob Barnett , distills everything he’s learned about getting hired into his new book, Next Job, Best Job. Candidly and step-by-step, with a book chapter devoted to each of the 11 strategies, Barnett teaches you how to: Regain confidence and optimism after a job loss. Barnett : Chapter 11 in my book is not about bankruptcy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2010

I see this hunger for meaning in most of the people I'm privileged to meet: from the college freshman to the fresh grad to the mid-career professional and the senior executive. We all want to work on Stuff That Matters. If you're looking for a new job, look for a company that offers the chance to work on Stuff That Matters.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide , "lays out an agenda for the world's women and three major abuses: sex trafficking and forced prostitution; gender-based violence including honor killings and mass rape; maternal mortality, which needlessly claims one woman a minute."

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

We hunger for them. Name your craving What do you hunger for? For example, if your big vision is to write a book about knitting that is wildly successful, your recipe could be called, My Fabulous, Famous Knitting Book That Inspires People and Makes Money. The same is true for the big visions we have for our lives.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

There are some universal elements to any compelling story, whether they’re in books, the news, articles, blogs, or movies. Please give so that we can end childhood hunger in India and help these children realize their full potential. In short, great storytelling tugs heartstrings and that’s step 1 if you want a donation.

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APRIL 29, 2021

Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Prior to this, he established an in-house “Zero Hunger” innovation accelerator and created an award winning crowdfunding smartphone app, ShareTheMeal. Kimberly Mitchell.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

We came up with a book wishlist for donors who wanted to pitch in and buy specific books requested by Bookshare members. One donor made a special offer to our top volunteers, those who have provided at least 150 books to Bookshare: that they could request any one book and we'd (not they!) Pavi • What a great present!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

They even got to meet Keo Savon, the young Cambodian women that we are sending to college by donating the royalties from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” to the Sharing Foundation. Here’s some resources from VolunteerMatch if you want to volunteer your time to help out hunger organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

The book shares how and why our mind pays attention to some events, ideas, or people and not others. The book goes into detail about each of these triggers, describing how they work and examples of how organizations and people capture attention.

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

Sharing the book or toy gives both children the common experience that forms the classroom culture. Another example is the Hunger Relief Map from the Capitol Area Food Bank in Austin. One of the most important social skills they work on in my daughter's classroom? What can you share that just might transform the sector?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 20, 2022

For example: “The organization’s purpose is to fight hunger in our community.”. The Bottom Line Your bylaws are your rule book for governing your nonprofit. If you include your mission statement and your mission statement changes, as they often do, you need to update your bylaws. A more general statement will have more staying power.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

Last week Ben Rigby of Mobile Voter, and the folks from Rock the Vote gave me a copy of their a new book. Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth for a book giveaway on my blog. Why would we want a free book? for poverty, hunger and homeless advocacy and change. Mobilizing Generation 2.0: 3 months in a row.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

This new genre of video games are about solving real world problems such as environment, global hunger, poverty and disease. Ed Nicholson from Tyson Foods pointed to two excellent examples of young girl who raised money for hunger relief by asking her friends to donate money to host a mobile food pantry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

But hunger is a serious issue in America, especially in these difficult times. First Book has teamed up with Disney to celebrate the release of "Bedtime Stories," a holiday movie. From now until the film's December 25 release, Disney will donate one new book to First Book (up to 250,000 books) for every comment posted.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2008

During the interview Wallis said, "The two great hungers in the world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social justice. We buy the books, we buy the tapes. Wallis was on the show to promote his new book, The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

This is also a good time to remind all nptechies about our free e-book, The Resilient Organization: A Guide for Disaster Planning and Recovery and also the Mobile Beacon post: Preparing for Disaster and Tech Planning. An App To End World Hunger? How this will move the needle on world hunger? The New FCC Ruling on Net Neutrality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

” A ‘Little Bet” as defined by Peter Sims, author of the book – Little Bets, is a small action that you can take to discover something new. Let’s do more than just give failure lip service, let’s put it into practice and share learning from a failure or placing a “Little Bet.” Test your assumptions.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

When the donor opened the email, it explained that the school was celebrating Curl Up With A Good Book Day, a day devoted to reading and writing. Fight hunger with us. For example, an education foundation recently sent an email subject line that read: Our teachers are refusing to teach math today! . Pose a question. Be the light.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

This is just one of the many different ways they are using social media for the fight against global hunger which has only intensified with the financial crisis. Take a quick look around their homebase Web site to easily see their creative use of social media, from bloggers campaigns to Wall Against Hunger. Editing Software.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2013

Register for one or all three sessions ; plus, you''ll get a copy of the book: Social Change Anytime Everywhere: Multichannel Strategies to Reach Your Mission included with your registration. We loved reading this Points of Light blog post from an inspiring fourth grader who describes his work to fight hunger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

The causes that are supported are listed here a good mix of wildlife conservation, hunger, and others. There is a scaling system for Karma points - for example supporting a classroom is five points while sending a book to a library in a developing country is 100. And, of course, you get badges for various activities.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2014

Katniss would have been devastated as she watched her sister escorted off to the Hunger Games and the book/movie series would have turned out drastically different. However, what if she was told no? Effie Trinket tells her, “Thanks, but no thanks.”

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

No single organization can tackle hunger in its community. The central question from that book is: What does it mean to be an organization, in a world where anyone and everyone can self-organize? Flickr photo: Cindy47452 One of the things we know to be true about the work we do: we can't do it alone. One more thing struck me.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2014

Katniss would have been devastated as she watched her sister escorted off to the Hunger Games and the book/movie series would have turned out drastically different. However, what if she was told no? Effie Trinket tells her, “Thanks, but no thanks.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

If you are bored with my description of process and hungering for the content, here’s Devon’s “Storify&# documentation for the session. He is now using his iPad with Sketch book pro and a stylus – which makes it possible for more immediate posting. I’m inspired to do more electronic doodling myself.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

For the past 20 years, Tom Iselin, a former stock options trader turned social entrepreneur, has founded and built some of the nation's most notable nonprofits - The Hunger Coalition, DrugFreeWave, and Higher Ground. In April, Tom published his third book, First Things First.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, healthcare, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. The top 100.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Northwest Harvest Food Bank used its social media channels to mobilize supporters to give food donations that ended up breaking a Guinness Book of World Records.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

All you had to do was click and play a word game, and that leveraged a food donation to fight hunger. 2) Spreading Person to Person Asks : This approach uses twitter and encourages people to ask their friends through Twitter to donate to a charity and spread the ask to their friends. For each click, 10 grains of rice is donated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Note from Beth: Last month during one of our book talks for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , ” at TechSoup Global, Rachel Weidinger from Upwell came up to say hello. Will hunger ever gain Beiber-like prominence? 3 Big Listening Gives You Gives You Perspective on Your Impact.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

One of the events listed is an exhibition of photos at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from the book Celebrating Women by Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed in October 2007). The United Nations has chosen the theme of, "Women and Men United to End Violence Against Women and Girls," for this year's International Women's Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Among the scholars Notre Dame invited to speak to us was Dr. Jeffrey Sachs (author of the book ???The    Check out what  the Austin area social media activists are doing to raise awareness about hunger and poverty in their local community.  The End of Poverty??? ). It was only after I heard Dr. Sachs???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

" In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. Bill Gates said, "This is one of the best books written." "The funny thing that having Bill Gates say he loves your book. " He mentioned that the game Civilization 4 came out since the book as published.

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