Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Note from Beth: I’ve been a fan of the Games for Change Festival since I first attended in 2006. GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. In Education.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 21, 2020

We also know we can’t just sit around and wait for a magical top-down change. We love a comment card from a visitor, but how can we gather better, honest feedback from staff early and often before they quit or leave the sector? And how do you act on that information to save the relationship? An exit interview is too late.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. This first grant allowed us to pilot a Bookshare outreach project in the New York metro area, with a de facto focus on senior citizens with vision loss. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Moreover, we recently held a two-day workshop in New York City, bringing together a wide range of activists and funders, developing a model we plan to replicate around the world. We want to see that students with disabilities have equal opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Now that my student days are behind me, I realize just how essential it is to have museums open after working hours so I can actually go to the museum during the week. Network and swap ideas with your peers while developing an action plan to start making immediate changes at your organization.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2016

One of those organizations is the YWCA of the City of New York (YW), a nonprofit organization that offers job training, daycare, and after-school programs to New York City women and their families. My colleagues and I spent an afternoon of job shadowing at our office with ten students from the high school.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

continuing series, we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Organizations reliant on government funding continue to experience a “death by a thousand cuts,” says NFF client Sharon Stapel, Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project. “In Anjali Deshmukh , Associate Director.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

Find out more on this new service here. The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. Very sophisticated for a student team. The New York City-based nonprofit Spare Change is developing a smartphone app that will soon launch.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

As I mentioned last week, I'll be speaking about blogging at the Writing for Change Conference in San Francisco this month. In the interview transcript below, Elizabeth talks about the conference and offers tips for writers who want to write for change. We are both from New York, but felt that California was the right place to be.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Ravon Ruffin and Amanda Figuero - Claiming Space for Brown Women in the Digital Museum Landscape Based in Washington DC, Brown Girls Museum Blog is a new-ish site led by graduate students Ravon Ruffin and Amanda Figueroa. They are holding meetups, creating swag , and getting heard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

However, according to Paul Ohm , Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School, email services such as Gmail are changing our expectations of privacy, as we find tailored advertisements in our internet browsers. 2. The Buyer Beware Argument is victim-blaming instead of proactively protecting.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Themed “From Grassroots to Government: Empowering Social Change to Address Wicked Problems,” the conference will cover a range of social issues, including housing and urban development, mental health crises, and civil rights. Get there early for the free 2024 Junior Scholar Workshop, happening June 4-6.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

Allison is a successful social entrepreneur and writer dedicated to helping grassroots organizations and activists implement and sustain social change efforts. Fine is a senior fellow at Demos , a network of action and ideas based in New York City. James OMalley: How does social media help bring about change?

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Affect is a new community event highlighting the diversity of work and design behind social change. Convene with thought leaders in social change from around the world. Join us November 3-5 in Philadelphia, a city where revolutions are made, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. New voices energizing conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Rebecca Corliss Today, I attended the New Marketing Summit and I was struck by a panel called " Millenial Marketing Moves " that featured four millenials talking about how to market to this segment. I am working as a consultant and I'm also doing work with Social Media for Social Change , a new nonprofit. Tell me about you?

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change When most people outside gaming think of video games, they typically fall into three buckets: "old school" games like Super Mario and Tetris, social and mobile games like Farmville and Angry Birds, or hyper-violent console games like Grand Theft Auto.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Because it was my first time meeting the students, part of the half hour was spent getting to know each other. I highly recommend volunteering with young people, whether they are as little as a kindergartner, or as old as a college student. Today, 826 has chapters in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Michigan, and Boston.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 7, 2024

While decisions regarding whether to focus on prospecting or donor retention are often rooted in economics (prospect in boom times, retain when conditions are rough), leaders at the New York City-based nonprofit see the 2024 election year as an opportune time for bringing on new supporters. That might be changing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

Yesterday, I had the honor of participating in the 4th annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit that brings together women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. They offer comprehensive high school scholarships, personalized mentoring, and leadership training.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

I came across her work while researching examples of nonprofits using the social web for social change for NetSquared and am looking forward to meeting her in person when she speaks at the NetSquared Conference next week. Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. They would rather opt for MTV.

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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. law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal).

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