Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

When discussing the ideas in The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , people in Finland have figured out keeping calm versus fire drill culture. The latter may be due how children are taught in the Finnish educational system. The group also paid attention to group energy and taking brief breaks.

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For example, supporters who are parents often like fundraisers they can participate in with their children. By choosing an idea that raises money and educates students at the same time, your community will want to be more involved. Any of these ideas can be adapted for different age groups, grade levels, and student preferences.

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APRIL 23, 2023

and her children into an apartment, provide furnishings in partnership with our local furniture bank, and enroll her in a certification program so she can increase her income. “I For example, “ Your gift is the difference between life and death for the children of Haiti.” But that’s just the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

During my time at the International Fundraising Congress, I met this young lady, Betty, who was attending the conference to research and network with nonprofits to partner with for her fundraising idea to make the world a better place. She’s only 10 years old! The Giving 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Salesforce is a perfect example of a platform that’s powering business, but is very rarely taught in college classrooms. TF: I like the idea you’re touching on of focusing on developing skills via apprenticeship learning versus committing to a career, especially if you’re undecided on what path to take, through academic learning.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

And that’s not to mention the hassle that sometimes comes with trying to get young children excited about reading. While read-a-thons are a great fundraising idea for nonprofits of all kinds, they’re the perfect fundraiser for schools, libraries, and education nonprofit organizations. Thank your donors and readers. Final thoughts.

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MAY 29, 2023

Hero languages reinforces the idea that they made the right choice and increases the possibility that they will give again. If the gift was toward a campaign or designated for a special purpose, it’s a good idea to include that information as well for the donor’s reference. Say things like, We couldn’t do this without you! ,

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FEBRUARY 20, 2008

The classrooms have doors that open to the outside, because of the warm weather. Most classrooms have desks and textbooks and all have chalkboards. We went into a classroom where I could immediately tell that the teacher there as well as one of the students both had the condition. Instead of windows, they have heavy screens.

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MARCH 22, 2011

One of the most important social skills they work on in my daughter's classroom? Sharing is important because a) it's just the nice thing to do and b) sharing helps build the classroom community. Sharing the book or toy gives both children the common experience that forms the classroom culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The fact that 1 in 4 children in the U.S. When I taught high school English, I saw first-hand the negative effects of hunger on children in school. I used to buy bags of Egg McMuffins on my way to work and, before school started, I’d hand them out to kids who stopped by my classroom. Why is this cause important to you?

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JUNE 24, 2015

More than 2,000 donated and refurbished tablet PCs with Microsoft OneNote have helped Ordyslexie to create a cost-effective way to provide dyslexic children an easier way to learn. This is the reality for thousands of 10-year-old dyslexic children in the French school system. A Simple Solution for a Complex Problem.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are so many different kinds of nonprofit event ideas out there! With those factors in mind, we’ve put together a list of 52 nonprofit event ideas to help serve as a “vision board” for your organization’s next event. In this image, a group of adults sit in a classroom watching a teacher’s presentation.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. What Holly said in a recent tweet!)

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In a refugee camp in Jordan, Mercy Corps is putting the desert sand to use to help children displaced by conflict to feel like kids again. In fact, it can even generate your next great idea. Learn more about our flipped classroom model, what you can look forward to learning when you''re there, and register! Not in San Francisco?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In a refugee camp in Jordan, Mercy Corps is putting the desert sand to use to help children displaced by conflict to feel like kids again. In fact, it can even generate your next great idea. Learn more about our flipped classroom model, what you can look forward to learning when you''re there, and register! Not in San Francisco?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

This year the awards have a category to solicit ideas from young people, age 18-25. Since I was a first year college student at UC Berkeley, I have been working with students and schools in low-income communities and have grown increasingly aware of how educational disparities keep children from reaching their potential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2007

I've been meaning to come back and give these a closer read to see what new ideas emerged and how it different from the thinking/writing back in December. We need to encourage the development of easy to use, safe, classroom environments that can be controlled by the teacher but also allow students to enter 3D virtual environments.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

Donation Drive Ideas. Students and teachers excel in classrooms that have all the resources they need to keep learning and teaching. A school supply drive can help your local schools provide quality education to all children, especially those from underserved communities for whom school supplies are a major expense.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 15, 2016

She is Vice President of Training at Pursuant where she transforms individuals into confident, successful fundraisers through classroom, custom and online training. Ready to get inspired with great stewardship ideas and a renewed passion for fundraising? Rachel Muir, CFRE, is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub. Steven Shattuck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better,” said Best in a 2014 interview in Fast Company. ” From its humble beginnings, DonorsChoose.org has cumulatively raised $335 million and funded nearly 600,000 classroom projects.

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MARCH 11, 2014

With these efforts, children will make arts and cultural participation a habit, and continue this habit into their adult lives. Teachers will be able to inform arts and cultural nonprofits’ practices, and ensure that these organizations better serve their classrooms. Today, diversity is of chief importance in planning for the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Here's a few ideas to help make charitable giving get on your calendar each month for 2009. There was so much support for the idea, that he started an entire fundraising organization fueled by social media to support Jane Doe. January: Have a January birthday? Ask people to donate to a cause instead of gifts. It's your choice.

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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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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

This gives them an idea of how many appeals they should be prepared to carry out. To help garner gifts, their campaign website is branded with pictures and videos of children in Haiti to show donors who exactly they’ll be helping. The FFC team recruited peer-to-peer participants to raise money for their faith-based project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

" Over the years, I taught many workshops for arts educators on how to integrate the web into the curriculum, although not as much recently since I have two small children. If the site is to be used by kids in the classroom, it has to have some interactive component to keep their interest and be engaged.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Their annual report, the State of Babies Yearbook , frames rigorous research, unbiased analyses, and clear communications to influence decision-makers positioned to improve public policies and interventions in support of children and families. This project took home six awards this year! The post Celebrating Mission-Driven Success in 2023!

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Their annual report, the State of Babies Yearbook , frames rigorous research, unbiased analyses, and clear communications to influence decision-makers positioned to improve public policies and interventions in support of children and families. This project took home six awards this year! The post Celebrating Client Success in 2023!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible. So, now is the fun part.

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JUNE 12, 2012

It was exhilarating to see them inspired to create their own meanings in response: lovers whispering together in alcoves, people of all ages writing and drawing on walls and post-its, children painting, everyone sitting rapt before screens. Rejected ideas included a paper towel dispenser for vows.) Hearts to Hearts card game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

As I think about my own children getting to the age when they will use the web, I'm trying not to get too depressed about what educators have said about this growing problem of cyberbullies over at the Stop CyberBullying site. Arguments directed at the person rather than at the ideas. The Human Genome project.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

[Photo credit: Idea Accelerator contestants high five after practicing their pitches at the Microsoft evening reception, Sept. Credit: Broken Banjo Photography] It takes a lot to jump onstage and pitch a brand new idea in front of a new group of people. Right now, though, we want to share the 21 other fresh ideas that were pitched.

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