Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

For the last several years, Symphony Nova Scotia has been changing children’s lives with music. Through its Education and Community Outreach programs, the Symphony helps bring music into the lives of over 14,000 school children each year - students who may not otherwise have access to a symphony.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

We also encounter people at music festivals so sometimes we will cater our designs to fit those music genres. But mostly my days consist of working with other departments to help visualize solutions to their projects. Mostly our audience is young adults in their 20s and 30s. People will always be the number one resource.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Purchases support the NWF’s mission to ensure wildlife thrive in a rapidly changing world. Proceeds aid musicians and music industry workers who are struggling with illness, disease, and age-related problems. 10) Tote Project :: thetoteproject.com. 19) National Wildlife Federation Store :: shopnwf.org.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 22, 2021

We even have fun channels like “Travel” and “Music” where employees can post non-work related content. We put BOCs on the calendar about once a month and talk about anything new in our lives like things going on with our families, our workout routines, new music we love, an awesome movie we saw, etc. Work in Sprints. Have fun with it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

These insights can be used to solve social change problems. AI Music and Mental Health Project: In the UK, many young people, called “Carers” are looking after a family member with disabilities or health problems. AI can do this faster than humans to identify patterns. and insights more quickly.

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Qgiv

MARCH 19, 2024

Your supporters help make the work you do possible, allowing you to change the world. Project updates. These events also serve as a good time for your donors to learn more about the projects they support from your organization and receive updates from your team members leading the specific projects they contributed to.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

You can do this by visiting a Black history museum or African American heritage site, by reading and sharing books written by Black authors, and by exploring Black music history. You can also check out projects like “The 1619 Project” and look up educational events led by expert guest speakers and historians near you.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

As part of the App It Up 2: Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore how charities and nonprofits are using gamification. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. Mobile Apps. Additional Resources.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Producing an awareness video is about creating a story of change. Begin by raising awareness about the way the natural world works and show the viewer just how much change can happen when there is purposeful effort put to it. It merely shares a story of change and leaves the rest up to the viewer to interpret. Impact Videos.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 12, 2021

This could be as simple as listening to music in the car, watching a regular TV series, reading a book, doing a hobby, having a pamper treat, or spending an hour with candles and a hot bath. Accept the Things We Can’t Change. There are always going to be a portion of life’s events and business outcomes that you can’t change.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

However, take one little step outside of our warm and fuzzy community into the larger technology community, and things change. The exceptions to this in my experience have been very, very few and far between. Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. Like many transmedia projects, SOS_Slaves is ambitious.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 14, 2013

Unfortunately, most companies won’t pursue projects without the promise of big profits and the people who need tech tools the most often can’t afford them. Gordon asked Brynjolfsson about the value of some of the innovations he mentioned in his talk, from highly intelligent machines like IBM’s Watson to free streamed music.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt).

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve grouped these solutions into the following categories: Donor Management Fundraising Project Management Communication Design Forms Marketing Events Website Content Management System As you assess each option, keep in mind that seemingly “free” platforms may still come with costs. Is it worth it to spend the money?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2006

Britt Bravo and I have the pleasure of being the blogging mentors this week on the Young Caucasus Women Project. " Here are our posts: Britt Bravo: Art for Social Change Beth Kanter: Are You An Artist too? It has been a delightful experience and it's also helped me expand my world music collection.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

There was no doubt in my mind from day one on Myspace that online social networking was going change everything about how nonprofits and activists communicate, mobilize and fundraise online. Unfortunately, I can’t advocate for that right now except for nonprofits associated with the music industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Go participate and if you happen to be the winner, go donate the money to Stacey Monk’s, founder of epic change, new amazing project, LaLaLove. Stacey is one who launched the first social media infused gratitude campaign during Thanksgiving back in 2008,successfully raising money for a school project Tanzania.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

Earlier this year, I was fascinated to read the account of a participatory project at the Morrison County Historical Society in Minnesota, in which community members were invited to write essays about “what’s it like” to have various life experiences in the County. How did this project get started? How did this project get started?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

It reflects best practices in adult learning and provides a framework that results in positive change. The first step in the DLP is identifying projected outcomes: what do you want learners to achieve? This music was played in the meeting room during transitions and breaks. Step 1: Be Intentional About Intent.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. When the music video was not focused on Mexican culture, no such change occurred. I wanted to know more. Direct questioning.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

You compile photos and videos of your organization’s work and set the montage to music. An animated video can be used for a change of pace, a surprise for your supporters who follow your social channels. Also identify music you want to use, if necessary, making sure you have authorization. Or is it a one-time project?

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

First, I introduce a staff member who speaks for 20 minutes about their work, how it has changed since the pandemic, and what they are learning. The last 15 minutes of the meeting are set aside for me to interact with the volunteers and update them on operational changes or news from other parts of the Smithsonian.

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NetWits

MARCH 11, 2012

CONTENT MARKETING PRO TIP : Figure out how to turn the unique ways your organization is changing the world into content that can be used online. Since 1938 March of Dimes has been changing the world one baby at a time. March of Dimes – Use a multidimensional approach. every 40 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Change the conversation from vanity metrics to validated learning. In these early stages, it is more important to honor learning. But there is something else to add as well. Networks have been valuable to the social change sector because of the potential for collective impact rather than individual impact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe in the power of books to change the world. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together. He would play me a 90’s punk song, and I’d download Pat Benatar (saying, I had music like that when I was your age). Gerry did have one other piece of critical advice: change the name. I had never heard of it.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 3, 2022

But, it’s time to face the music for the opportunity to share what, in short, as cliche as it sounds, has changed the trajectory of my career, and life. I’m eager for the day I’ll be ready to carry weight and help create change with this team!” What I Learned from the RiseUp Fellowship.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

Tell stories about how lives have been changed and show powerful images of your work. Nothing is more impactful than a well-done video with the right music in the background. Use words like “impact”, “give”, “life-saving”, “life-changing”, and “make a difference”. Be gracious, grateful, and appreciative no matter how you did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Marnie says that nonprofits should own the impact and not the to dos, but I asked her but who will actually do the work? She says it is a mix between doing and curating, but the we’ve got to change the “I’ll do it&# as the default organizational behavior. How did you get 340 museums to participate? All in one day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Today was the big announcement at the F8 Conference about the new dramatic, life altering changes in the Facebook Platform. The big change will be how Facebook profiles are becoming fuller “timelines” of a one’s life. New Feature: More than Liking.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 10, 2020

Technological advancements have fundamentally changed the way people live, and they will continue to do so. These changes have significant consequences for how organizations connect with donors, clients, partners, and employees. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. Applications.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 12, 2008

I’ve been pretty busy with a variety of projects. I’ll be on hiatus for about another week, and will have some long awaited new FOSS tools, as well as other posts that have been brewing for a while. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

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. Un Foundation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. The documentation is a bit lacking, and it’s clear that it’s a very new project. But hopefully that will change. { You can log in using OpenID.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Open source is becoming mainstream, and people (that is, people with money) are starting to throw big bucks in the direction of open source projects, and companies that provide services for open source projects. This is going to make these projects better, and make support for them more available.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

posted by Jason Rescka , Music Event Manager & Community Board Member. Recently, the Garage has been working with a lot of high school students who need to complete a community project in order to graduate. He is the music event manager and community board member of the Garage Community Youth & Center. Like this article?

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