Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2015

Here is Shana’s complete list of things to green light (start doing) and red light (stop doing) this year! Green Light: Embrace Your Complainers! Green Light: Bring IRL Back! Rededicate yourself to learning more about fundraising, or teaching your staff to be better fundraisers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 19, 2007

Street Yoga is a group in the Pacific Northwest that teaches free yoga and wellness classes to youth living on the streets and in foster care, children of homeless families, and young people recovering from abuse and trauma. What are some examples you've seen of yoga for social change? Photo credit: Yoga by Mark MacLean.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Beyond the First Click examines innovative volunteer engagement work by 35 organisations empowering people to scale change and win by learning and doing more. Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teach “green hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. They offer direction, supervision and make outings fun.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Your vision for your new organization probably includes vibrant programs, happy donors, tons of community support, and the opportunity to change lives. The story of that passion in action brings in the donations that pay for your programs and services, which have an impact and change lives. Build a solid foundation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Photo by Green LA Girl ) 2. Teaching The Essential Blog Content Development Workshop I loved co-facilitating the Essential Blog Content Development Workshop with Elizabeth Soutter of Da Momma: Motherhood is Not for Wimps , and Julie Weckerlein of Julie and Martin. Hanging out with Siel/Green LA Girl. Siel of Green LA Girl.

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Socialbrite

JANUARY 15, 2021

This knowledge is ever-changing and needs to be both accessible and adaptable. This is the type of knowledge that is codified and easy to teach. Sustainability is not just about going “green.” Sustainability for nonprofits means that the organization will endure changes in economy and political climate. Tacit knowledge.

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Care2

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Sachs highlighted the example of the Fiji Green marketing campaign, where consumers quickly learned that Fuji’s practices weren’t "green" at all. What do you stand for that you can teach your audience and that will resonate with them. Sachs said that this cost the Fuji brand millions of dollars.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. Lindsay Green suggests: I’ll go with make the work the team are focussed on visible - literally a list of projects or challenges you’re currently solving on the wall. Everyone can learn from others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

” The green ugly doll has accompanied me around the world and has been in the hands of many people who work for NGOs and social change. So, there is a spiritual ending and a commitment to applying what has been learned as well as communal ending. The ugly doll got passed in New Zealand and in Australia.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

The first step may be to change the way you work. If you want to be more productive and get more done without working 24/7, you have to change your habits. Adopting a new work practice is challenging, especially if the whole team needs to embrace the change. Many people have declared bullet journaling life changing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The formula for a successful change process is not “form follows function,” but “form follows consciousness.” One the techniques they teach and apply is called “ Shadowing.” The structure of awareness and attention determines the pathway along which a situation unfolds.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 28, 2008

For the past two days I've gotten to spend time at the NetSquared Conference with my Co-Editor of BlogHer's Social Change, Nonprofit and NGO section, and fellow NetSquared blogger , Beth Kanter of Beth's Blog. I'll be teaching a "Nonprofit Blogging 101," and a "Nonprofit Podcasting 101" session.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

The theme of MCON 2015 is “The Power of Influence: Art, Media, Business and Place” and an incredible lineup of speakers from the corporate, nonprofit and public sectors will share stories of the successes and failures they’ve encountered while changing the world. SOME OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS IN THE COUNTRY.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2019

Remember when you met a group of young people who wanted to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony? Founded with a vision of a green and peaceful world, supporters rallied around their cause of nuclear disarmament, easily making the connections between values-based messaging and their core mission work. A brief step back in time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2008

Britt will be teaching a "Nonprofit Blogging 101," and a "Nonprofit Podcasting 101" session. I will give a keynote about, "New Media: The Wizard Behind the Curtain," and teaching a session about, "Social Media Game for Nonprofits."

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

You will probably need to hire a WordPress developer to build your site, but your developer can teach you how to make updates after your site goes live. Blue and green are cool, calming colors that work great for outdoorsy, environmental nonprofits. With a WordPress site, you can get exactly what you want. They affect how you feel.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

The session, "Turning E-Waste into Green," focused on how policy decisions handling e-waste can improve the economy. Read about the winners and how they plan to change the world through apps. TechSoup's Jim Lynch presented on a panel discussion hosted by the U.S. Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

Through Big Vision , she broadcasts interviews with many of the East Bay's most successful activists for social change. beyond her writing, teaching, and podcast production work, she provides consulting services to nonprofits and individuals looking to create their own positive change.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Reading and understanding these reports can be difficult for many board members, but there is so much important information there that great board members must learn to understand them so they can be real agents of change on the boards they join. That way, readers can get an idea of the magnitude of the change.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

When librarian Dianne Connery came to the library a few years ago, she found a classic small town library situated in a converted post office building with the requisite institutional green paint job. They recruited a local volunteer to teach the kids Adobe InDesign to lay out the publication. She immediately got to work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. Example: The Environmental Defense Fund's blog, Climate 411 , "is the voice of the experts at Environmental Defense Fund, providing plain-English explanations of climate change science, technology, policy, and news."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

It is called “Rose, Bud, Thorn.” Participants reviewed their notes from the expert sessions, and wrote down challenges on blue sticky notes, strengths on pink sticky notes, and opportunities on green sticky notes. How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3. All together, participants came up with over 500 ideas.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2012

Pacific time, called E-Readers for Everyone: Teaching Tips from Trainers. At our E-Readers for Everyone: Teaching Tips webinar , librarian Brenda Hough will discuss how library instructors are successfully navigating this sea change in the way people are using books and libraries. Interesting stuff.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 17, 2015

The theme of MCON 2015 is “The Power of Influence: Art, Media, Business and Place” and an incredible lineup of speakers from the corporate, nonprofit and public sectors will share stories of the successes and failures they’ve encountered while changing the world. Some of the Most Successful Social Entrepreneurs in the Country.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

Students are Put to Test , about graduates who go into school with high ideals for changing the world, but come out working for big business. Hat tip to Echoing Green for the link). Only when the prices change will students' choices change. The New York Times recently published an article, Big Paycheck or Service?

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Classy

JULY 13, 2021

Technological innovation, political shifts, and economic fluctuations have tested the social sector’s ability to cope with change, but Dr. Wolf’s suggestions will help your nonprofit manage these transitions to become a highly successful leader and continue driving your organization’s mission forward. . By Alison Green and Jerry Hauser.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2011

This piece is part of an occasional series we do at GreenTech to profile leaders in the Green IT field. publication, Green IT For Dummies. There are now many general books on green IT, but Green IT For Dummies remains one of the most readable and practical introductions to the field for people in small and medium sized offices.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Much has changed with regard to fundraising and “friendraising” during the 12 years I have been a professional fundraiser, the most obvious being the use of technology. Adrienne D. We are all online these days whereas in 1998 it was a much more mixed bag. One thing remains and will continue to, however: making sense of it all.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

A Few Book Suggestions: Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , a publication of Echoing Green. They were all Echoing Green Fellows who received up to $90,000 in seed funding and technical support to turn their ideas into sustainable organizations. They realize how to make someone else change their mind. That's really cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? Social Change Behind the Firewall. Harry: A Green Geek. You're Never Too Old To Change the World. Teaching Your Kids About Philanthropy. Let the Change Blogging Meme Hit The Road. Help Me Send Leng Sopharath To College in Good Health!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

My two closest peers in California have both gotten MacArthurs (Victoria Hale this year and David Green two years ago). If you know some brilliant developers who want to actually get paid to change the world, put them in touch with us. The great news is how much attention social entrepreneurship is getting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and preparation. Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

His first book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , which he co-authored with Anna Lappe , won a 2007 Nautilus Award for Social Change. It was very simple, nutrient-dense, leafy greens, root vegetables, and fresh fruit from the trees in their front yards, and nuts from the trees in their yard and the neighbors' yards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Last December, I watched Twitter turn into a sea of frozen green peas to support Susan Reynolds in her fight against breast cancer and to raise money for research in her honor. 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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Thursday, October 28, 2010 How To Be A Green Leader You can be a green leader at work and help save the planet and money for your business, by following these practices and instilling these habits with your employees: Photocopiers: Use the "standby" button on your copiers and that will lighten your energy load by 70 percent.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

They were normal kids, except they lived in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood of Chicago, where the role models and life experiences were anything but what normal kids in most parts of America grow up with. The Cabrini Green neighborhood has a high concentration of poverty, many people living on welfare, and strong street gang involvement.

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