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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

Candid

Uplifting historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) Shaw University, located in Raleigh, NC, was the first HBCU organized in the South and is the birthplace of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). I kept that commitment, giving myself space to learn, grow, connect, heal, and restore.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Global Literacy team, led by VP & General Manager Betsy Beaumon, just celebrated our latest major milestones: serving 300,000 members, the majority of whom are American students with disabilities, and offering 250,000 accessible books on the virtual shelves of our library. What about yet another order of magnitude beyond that?

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Reflections from Social Good Brasil and a New Word: PhilanthroTeen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve just returned from keynoting the first Social Good Brazil conference that took place in Florianapolis, sometimes referred to the “Silicon Valley” of Brasil and where the nonprofit, social good, innovation, and technology community is leading the social change movement. Teens As Free Agents.

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Future of Social: Gen Z

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you want to learn more about what I’ll be talking about, read this interview in the Guardian. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. Be Prepared to Be Blown Away by Gen Z. Nonprofits and Gen Z.

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The Future of Social: Gen Z

NonProfit Hub

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer.

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

Have Fun - Do Good

And Phil Zimbardo is going to speak about his book, The Lucifer Effect , which showed how he had an experiment where he put a few students of his from Stanford in prison and a few people, in the same class, in as prison guards, and then it showed how immediately they turned bad because of how power can corrupt people.

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EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Lessons Learned and Keys to Success: Thinking of a novel idea was a big part, responsible for the campaigns high volume of free press coverage. They learned of our avatars and we decided to ship 140 avatars overseas--a logistical nightmare (imagine getting them through US customs! - Also we made the Asian avatars look Asian etc.

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