Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Photo by Trav Williams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Their strategy focuses on technology and partnerships that can accelerate systemic on the ground social change and economic issues. Take for example deploying 200 sensors throughout the Brazilian rainforest to measure and visualize the effects of climate change.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2019

It is apparent that the nonprofit sector is going through a time of difficulties and change when it comes to recruiting and retaining employees. This issue can lead to a lack of recruitment and retention techniques. To make social change, nonprofit organizations need the best of the best on their side.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

Published on SANGONeT's content portal, NGOPulse, the organizations profiled range from education, social outreach, poverty relief, environment, and more. The Media and Training Centre for Health specializes in the design and development of community learning models that promote health and empowerment in marginalized communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Some things have not changed: Time and attention are finite. I gave the example of charity:water that tells the story about how clean drinking water can change people’s lives in development country. The UN Global Report is also using Facebook Messenger bots to engage young people around different issues. Empowerment.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

To that end, I’ve compiled a list of funders who spend their time and grantmaking resources on assisting women-led movements to advance meaningful change. The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals. Amber Grant Foundation. Foundation for Women.

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MARCH 5, 2021

To that end, I’ve compiled a list of funders who spend their time and grantmaking resources on assisting women-led movements to advance meaningful change. The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals. Amber Grant Foundation. Foundation for Women.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup, hosted a breakfast in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood for nonprofits, app developers, and anyone interested in changing the world for the better. Focusing in on Local Issues. Tackling Global Issues. Open Data San Francisco. Martus: Encryption for Human Rights. Image 2: Concrn.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that. Last year, our board and staff came together to develop a “theory of change” that connects the activities we do to the impact we seek. Let’s start with empowerment. Empowerment is the “individual” side of our theory of change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Social Change Behind the FireWall submitted by Holly Ross Successful nonprofits using social media are masters of social change behind the firewall. Real Time Representation - How Social Media is Changing the Face of Government submitted by Erica O'Grady 2008 marked the year of the first Twitter from inside the Oval Office.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

I spent Saturday in beautiful Monterey, ocean pounding outside the window of a conference room, where about 40 museum folks were pondering a question more elusive than the origin of the waves: can museums change the world? People don't need empowerment to make a difference; they need vehicles for action.

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Forj

MAY 18, 2021

Remote work has transformed the workplace environment of multiple industries, so Gorton tells us what it takes to successfully manage remote employees. Giving your team a common purpose that they can center around is the first step to a happy, healthy remote work environment. Empowerment & Encourage Success.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice. They wrestle to assert their identities and what is relevant to them in a sea of hormonal change and uncertainty.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. They can create the change makers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The other thing is that a lot of inner cities are part of empowerment zones or enterprise zones where companies that are at a certain scale and profitable can benefit from tax credits, both from the payroll side, if you hire from the inner city, but also if you locate in the enterprise zones. The public safety issue is huge.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

In other words, it's an amazing opportunity to support the critical work of organizations — not just here in the US — but around the globe in places where civil societies are struggling to address complex, challenging issues. It's what I] love the most about what we do. Image 1 : Taehyun Kim / CC BY-NC-ND.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

What we also believe will start to happen is that you create an environment of sort of inspired competition. This is the country I am in, " whether it is a rural or urban environment, "and now I want to calculate, how does the amount I was paid for this article compare to the minimum wage, the average wage, a non-poverty wage in my country?"

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

Ephraim Gopin moderates a panel of nonprofit pros – Mimosa Kabir, Sarah Willey, and Lisa Chmiola – to look at the issue of being laid off and ask: what next? So I was at a university and in the early part of the pandemic, the university was hit hard by just the economic changes that were happening in the country and in our state.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

They broadcast and unite women's voices from around the world into a powerful force for change. We unite those voices to accelerate change. I felt an emptiness inside, as a woman, that I wasn't hearing from the teachers that I wanted to about world issues. I've posted an edited transcript below.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

There's a long fight ahead, but for issues that stir you, one simple, positive thing you can do today is give - your time, money, voice, or attention - because so many organizations need your urgent support. Environment. We believe change is possible in every community. LGBTQ Rights. Immigration & Refugees. Legal Advocacy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

It could be the environment, it could be educational issues, political issues, international, national. We were starting to build small circles within the local communities that are all doing really magnificent work in order to create change. It really didn't matter to us. We didn't want to micromanage someone's passion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

Social media has changed the world. Today, a second wave of innovation is defining a new era and setting the stage for change over the coming decade. Can location-based services (LBS) change the world? The Green Map app is another that facilitates discovery and connects us to local green environments.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

We travel because we think it’s the most effective way to spread social change. We travel because it‘s the best use of our time in finding the partnerships, insights, and the money our teams need to create more social change. Even in the tough fiscal environment in Washington, we get good hearings from both Republicans and Democrats.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

Welcome to the Big Vision Podcast where we talk with individuals and organizations that are creating positive change. I think one of the main things we've talked about is how can we lift all boats and I think a true vision includes a lot of different aspects and a lot of different people, so it's not a single issue.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

To me, that sort of sums up something very special about the way in which we try to make these resources accessible to women-led initiatives that are often some of the most creative that we are seeing on issues ranging from the environment, to health, to education, to building peace and sustainable communities around the world.

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