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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic

Twenty Hats

One volunteer manager at an Arizona zoo described finding new ways to teach their volunteers about wildlife: “Over Zoom, we would give presentations about the different animals in our collection… So, for example, I did a presentation on bird conservation, which was not something that we ever had before. It wasn’t!

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How can nonprofits embrace technology to achieve social impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

Technology in the nonprofit sector is historically integrated more slowly than in other sectors, which stems from many nonprofit organizations having restrictive budgets and a more traditional or conservative mindset. As noted by Ally Marotti in an article in the Chicago Tribune, “ Data is at our fingertips now. Employee benefits.

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NTEN Celebrates National Volunteer Week: Honoring NTEN Committee Members

NTEN

The NTEN Editorial Committee is a group of committed professionals that meet monthly to discuss content and strategy for the NTEN: Change Journal , our quarterly digital publication for nonprofit leaders. Veda Banerjee, Director of Communications, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. Beth Kanter, Consultant, Beth''s Blog.

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The 2018 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

Attendees include approximately 200 Directors and senior staff from Service and Conservation Corps across the country; officials from federal agencies; representatives from philanthropic foundations; and friends and supporters of the Corps movement. Council on Foundations Public Policy Summit. ASAE / Chicago, IL / Not available.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

Museum 2.0

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. Say you want to track mentions of a particular public issue or news item. For teaching and learning. Nature Conservancy. Enable public feedback on assignments. That means you can subscribe.

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Carnet Williams: Nonprofit Technology, Blogging, Aggregating, & Surfing.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Our goal was for NetCorps interns to teach NGOs how to integrate technical tools into their workplace to achieve their mission, at the same time these orgs were teaching our students how to deal in life. I also met Rob Stuart early on as an organizer of the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene.