Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Carole Martin, Change Consultant, Martin Consulting. Chris van Bergeijk, Vice President for Programs, Hawaii Community Foundation. June Holley, Network Weaver, Network Weaver. Barbara Kibbe, COO, Salesforce.com Foundation. Eugene Eric Kim, Cofounder, Groupaya. Mary Manuel, Managing Director, McKay Foundation.

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JANUARY 8, 2009

You could win a trip to the Obama Inauguration by submitting your commitment to change to the Case Foundation's online civic engagement campaign, Change Begins with Me. All you have to do is go to change.casefoundation.org and in 250 characters or less, complete the phrase, "Change begins with me. I commit to."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

She also traced the history of nonprofit capacity building field and how the unit of analysis needs to change – from that of organizations to networks. She challenged the room full of funders to change their mindset. Casey Foundation; and Chris van Bergerijk, Hawaii Community Foundation. ” Video streaming by Ustream.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Areas served: Hawaii, Florida, Texas, Vermont (specific counties in each). Caring for Colorado works with communities to catalyze and accelerate change to improve the lives and health of Colorado’s children, youth, and families. Peter & Elizabeth Tower Foundation. Areas served: Colorado. Caring For Colorado Foundation.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

Areas served: Hawaii, Florida, Texas, Vermont (specific counties in each). Caring for Colorado works with communities to catalyze and accelerate change to improve the lives and health of Colorado’s children, youth, and families. Peter & Elizabeth Tower Foundation. Areas served: Colorado. Caring For Colorado Foundation.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Honolulu, Hawaii: Bi-monthly Code for Hawaii Project Night. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Crowdsourcing Change. Honolulu, Hawaii: Bi-monthly Code for Hawaii Project Night. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels and Bytes — Allegheny. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Ottawa, Ontario.

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APRIL 28, 2010

The business environment is changing and the threat posed by either the theft of your donor, constituent, and also employee data, or even the theft of your own organization's data can have devastating impact upon your operations. If you're scared by now, you should be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2017

Are you and your colleagues eager to improve and expand your capacity to listen to the people you seek to help, and to make the right changes in response? In 2016, 46 organizations across the 50 United States, from Hawaii to Massachusetts, received L4G grants to use that survey instrument to collect feedback from the people they serve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Among many insights gleaned from this week’s conference on “Growing Social Impact in a Networked World” ( [link] ), one theme keeps recurring for me: the importance of grantmakers sharing power and control within broadly construed networks of collaborators in the quest for social change. Chris van Bergeijk, Hawaii Community Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a Social Media Club workshop in Hawaii as part of Podcamp and WordCamp in Hawaii.    I asked folks who was doing interesting social change work with Aloha spirit.   Cynthia is convinced surfing can help Hawaii's at-risk youth. 

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

" This project encourages citizens to make positive changes in their community. TechSoup Global and NetSquared attended hackathons across the country—from Hawaii to Vermont—that tackled local, statewide, and national civic issues. Šta se može uraditi? translates to "What can be done?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

Points of Light Institute’s primary mission is to inspire, equip and mobilize people to take action that changes the world. We believe that civic engagement is a vital part of a healthy democracy and therefore promote and support volunteerism in the broadest sense. What are the key results of this campaign ?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Washington, DC: Lessons Learned, Online Learning for Social Change. Honolulu, Hawaii: Free Ruby on Rails Workshop for Women (and Their Friends). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Youth and Social Change. Vancouver, Canada: Small Changes for Big Results: How to Optimize Your Online Donations. Tuesday, September 23, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2006

Hawaii-made purses were hot tonight. The second purse from Hawaii spotted during the blogher reception. was handmade in Hawaii purchased from a department store. is getting one with pockets and changing purses often which forces you. Meet Julie from MotherGooseMouse Blog. That's her daughter on the bag (the goose).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

Check out the NetSquared blog to keep on top of the gossip and reporting from our network: Burlington’s Amanda Levinson reports on Amy Sample Ward’s presentation about her new book “Social Change Anytime Everywhere” The Weather Gods tried to stop the event, but Vermonters are tough! This Week’s NetSquared Events.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2009

I've got two new posts up on WE Volunteer: 21 Twitter Feeds About Volunteering Volunteer on Vacation in Hawaii Episode 14 of the Be Bold Podcast: Create a Career with Impact with Lara Galinsky of Echoing Green is up. Apply for a Travelocity's Change Ambassadors Grant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Okay, I did use some of it for my car rental while I was at Hawaii Podcamp and Social Media Club Workshop in Hawaii last month. I sent a coffee gift card to Alex Steed to help ower his Millennials Changing America project. But, what would I buy? But, I'm using the rest to purchase gifts or random acts of kindness.

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APRIL 5, 2011

are changing. Here are some key highlights from The Changing Demographics of America by Smithsonian. It's also interesting to note that, according to Wikipedia, Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas are already majority-minority states. The changing demographics of the U.S. I encourage you to read the entire article.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2011

This past October, California joined New Jersey, Virginia, Hawaii, Vermont, and Maryland in passing legislation to create this new type of legally recognized company. Business is the most powerful force on the planet and can be a positive instrument for change.

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JUNE 28, 2013

Given the complexity of the problem, many states and cities have found that the best solutions involve highly collaborative task forces that bring together nonprofit experts, policy makers, and public servants who are all dedicated to producing substantial change.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Can Cloud Computing Change Organizational Boundaries? The event was a chance for me to become further informed on the scary part of cloud computing: security. The cloud security technical session presenter was Donny Shimamoto, who is the founder and managing director of IntrapriseTechKnowlogies. Pacific time. TechSoup's Security Corner.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

But the changing tides of relevance that affect institutions affect content too—sometimes even more acutely. While an institution can pivot, presenting different content for different times, the content itself does not change. But we make those decisions and changes all the time. The painting is what it is.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Before the Princes of Surf exhibition, these boards rested deep in the collection storage of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii. They were in storage for 90+ years before historians in Hawaii and Santa Cruz discovered they were THE boards in the first known record of surfing in the Americas in Santa Cruz. July 19 was amazing.

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APRIL 9, 2024

Hawaii and Turkey combined or individually exceed the disaster-giving totals for a single year when we exclude epidemics (the COVID-19 pandemic skews the numbers because of the incredible response from individuals and philanthropic partners). Or has donor behavior changed as result of the pandemic?

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JULY 23, 2018

I called up Jeanette Morelan from WCK to talk about food as an agent for change and some of their recent work around the world. This year, we have activated kitchens to respond to the volcanoes in Hawaii and Guatemala. Tim helped us there, led our kitchen in Hawaii, and even came with us to Guatemala.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

It also means we must change the YWCA story. We are no longer the ‘doers’ but ‘connectors’ who catalyze change by listening to our members, and connecting them to the resources they need to accomplish their goals. It was a simple equation that built a movement of 20,000 women in Hawaii at our peak.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2012

But I followed the advice of colleague Rachel Smith, who teaches visual thinking and facilitation : “Send your inner critic who says you can’t draw on a vacation to Hawaii.” ” The point that presentation makes is: Start thinking as drawing as a way to think! Are you using visualization techniques in your nonprofit?

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

The session with the most tweets ( 398) was The Networked Nonprofit: Using Social Media to Power Social Networks for Change. Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa and North Dakota all represented with 1 attendee per state. . We think this is a testament to the speakers knowing their material. We're looking at you Beth Kanter & Allison Fine.).

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AUGUST 14, 2018

According to a recent piece in The Atlantic (“ Has Climate Change Intensified 2017’s Western Wildfires? ”), the total area burned in the western United States over the last 33 years was double the size it would have been without any human-caused warming. Consider the volcano situation that has been occurring for many months in Hawaii.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I realized that technology was a powerful agent of change, but it was not being integrated into grassroots socially progressive organizations. I have just recently decreased my hours at TNC to work with some folks to start a Wireless startup company in Hawaii trying to form a FreeNet WiFi network across the islands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2006

I also discovered Allison Fine's blog about using social media for social change and a blog by Mari Kuraishi , GlobalGiving's President and Founder. for social change. to Change the World shares some easy ways to incorporate these tools that are tweaking what many nonprofits are already doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Would Twestival forever change the nature of social media fundraising. Amanda points out, "Hawaii raised over $7k in 9 days, Toronto $10k in about 15 days. One of the workshop participants kindly brought me bag of schwag which included a t-shirt and other goodies and told me how wonderful it was!

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