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

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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Tom Iselin will show you how to increase your likability and “memorability” among donors that will deepen relationships, help you raise more money, and create greater donor loyalty. We got five excellent tactics for you that’ll help you raise more money, and improve your donor relationships through personal branding.

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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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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

In this webinar, learn how to build a writing culture at your organization, and how you can use writing to shape images, raise money, inspire people, and influence opinion. In April, Tom published his third book, First Things First. What you write and how you write it affects how people view your nonprofit. September 20, 2011 2:00 p.m.

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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 said suggested going out and trying to raise money for your organization as an individual and learn how easy or hard it is. Later I quizzed him about the tools. Rob Cottingham.

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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

For others, it is a day of political significance to raise awareness around women's rights. The campaign is trying to raise awareness that, "Each year, around 1 in 10 women in Britain experience rape, or other violence." Did you know that in some countries International Women's Day (March 8) is celebrated with flowers and gifts?

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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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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Whatever you might think of Hitchens though, one of his main criticisms raises an interesting point. I have been reading the wonderful book Forces for Good, by Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant, where this dilemma is presented quite starkly. Hitchens assumes that saints should always be presumed guilty until proven innocent.

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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. "The best part of the conference was when he got in front of the crowd of CEOs of major tech companies and he stood up raised his hand - asked, "How do you feel about using games for educational purposes?"

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

Back then, Dan was the chair of the Harvard Hunger Action Committee that led a 4,200 mile cross-country bike ride to fight hunger. These events raised $582 million in nine years and continue to shape event fundraising across the globe. ” The separate rule book discriminates against the sector in five big areas: 1.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Companies participate and get to use the Fair Trade Certified label when they open their books and demonstrate that they bought direct from the farmers and paid a fair price. That means to go to high school you need bus money, you need uniform money, you need book money. our budget this year is $10 million.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Yep, there’s a marathon of opportunity coming up and you don’t want to miss the chance to raise big bucks for your nonprofit. If you pull it together at the last minute or make it up as you go, you won’t raise as much money. No one raises big money in reactive mode. Trust me on that. Think about: Last year’s successes.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I'll raise my hand -- who just doesn't want that person to feel alone, doesn't want that person to feel burdened too much, then I felt like I was adding goodness to the world, and I think our world really needs that. It was something that I believed in, and I really like hungered for. One is Melissa Morris Ivone.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

And, yes, Steven and I think we booked this date like in March or something, right? But I don’t really know if I’m moving the needle, raising the money, engaging the supporters in a way that I feel comfortable and confident that, yeah, we got it. . Are you doing okay? Maureen: I am doing great. So, you know. .

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

So this is the first one, how can you raise more money more sustainably? We send each other books. No more hunger for this cutie-pie thanks to you. But you are doing such a phenomenal job of raising these precious kids. “You are doing such a phenomenal job of raising these precious kids.” ” Wow.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

They raised funds to make sure that the people who had already gone through the program could continue to be self-sufficient. . I did mention or in the readings, I did mention this book “Emergent Strategy.” And that was what they did for the past year. They’ve actually come out of the pandemic. Steven: Yeah.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

at 4:24 pm First, thanks Michelle, for raising this important issue vis a vis the Journal and thank you for inviting us to comment before posting. Benkler goes further , and I go with him: Information, knowledge, and information-rich goods and tools play a significant role in economic opportunity and human development.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2010

She is a professional chef, passionate home cook, local foods activist, and author of Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection. I mean, there's the book learning, too, but a lot of that, you can do on your own. We work a lot with animal products, but we work with pastured, humanely raised grass-fed types of animal products.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As we prepare for our leap into 2014, let’s learn from 2013′s ups and downs – triumphs and flops – and make this next year one for the record books. It’s preached that in order to successfully raise funds you must truly know your supporters- your people. People give to people.

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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. In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. Here's an example of a campaign to raise money on TwitCause for honeybee research. .

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