Care2

JUNE 12, 2012

The examples show a range of emotions a logo’s animation can evoke: The DC Children & Youth Investment Trust. When the words join the symbol, they represent the solidity of the foundation and the support it provides to DC’s most precious citizens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Some wisdom from DC Nonprofits: JoesMovement : Joe’s Movement Emporium is the community performing arts center of World Arts Focus, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that was launched in 1992. They used social media to help win the DC Best Place to Volunteer Contest. Keep cheer leading no matter what happens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2010

I’m donating all of my profits to the Sharing Foundation , which helps to care for Cambodia’s children. Allison is donating to the Hope for Henry Foundation , which provides gifts to children in hospitals with chronic diseases. unconference on Friday morning in Washington, DC. The Fundraiser. Join us at [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

We promised the monk that we would hold Cambodia in our hearts and travel back with our children to their birth country when they were old enough to appreciate it. This post focuses on the work of several NGOs, most importantly, the Sharing Foundation , that cares for children in Cambodia. That time was earlier this month.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2016

That's because these aren't just children's nursery rhymes; they're sticky stories, or stories that stick with you for decades. When we were children, we all knew how important stories were. Imagine a story being told to children around a campfire. Now swap out the children with adults.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

The other recipient this year was Kay Ferrell, Professor of Special Education at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, who won the Medal for her tremendous work with and on behalf of children and youth who are blind and visually impaired. Washington? Isn’t that where good ideas go to die?”

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums? Why the uniformity?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

In the United States, most children are taught that Christopher Columbus discovered this continent, that we created freedom and democracy. They created real injuries and yet they had enough love to give to their children. When I was a little boy, everybody went to DC to see the Capitol sites. They weren’t directions.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2014

Caravan Studios offers one of those different perspectives, and though still in its start-up phase, it has already delivered two apps: SafeNight for crowdfunding emergency shelter and Range for connecting underprivileged children with meals when school is out. Range App: Feeding Children. Tell Us Your Woes.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

M+R Strategic Services and NTEN are about to host an in-person event in Washington, DC from 1:30-3:00 p.m. Eastern as well as a simultaneous webcast of the event for those not in the DC-area. Helps you measure how your targeted emails, appeals to non-donors, phone call alerts, and more compare to those of other nonprofits. Starts now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

The report analyzes the results of the Give to the Max Day in Greater Washington, DC. The event had three components: A contest that stimulated gifts from individuals and encouraged nonprofits to give attention to acquiring new donors or re-engage lapsed donors.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

You may remember " Children Need a Bailout " from 2009, or " Breathe In, Breathe Out ," from 2008. Flicker photo: mastermaq Every year at the NTC , we partner with See3 to bring you the DoGooder Nonprofit Video awards. We're at it again in 2010, this time with more YouTube -y goodness! You can register here.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

This year's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Washington, DC, had a lot to offer for the nonprofits in attendance, and TechSoup was no exception. Also check out the work Microsoft did with the Missing Children Society of Canada and the Calgary Police Department. You can enter to win on this site.

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Care2

JULY 23, 2012

Ghazal manages the North American offices of Engaging Networks, a global eCRM software company, servicing organizations such as Oxfam, Save the Children, PETA, World Vision, CARE, Humane Society International, and many more. Elise Ledsinger is the manager of online fundraising for Humane Society International and is based in Washington, DC.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

We could present evidence that shows 284,000 children perform hazardous tasks on cocoa farms, and that more than half of the Ivory Coast child cocoa workers don't attend school, creating a permanent underclass. But to do so would be like watching a movie for the tenth time - been there and done that." I'm partial to Dagoba myself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Photo by Global Fund for Children. Dawn is a freelancer for BC/DC Ideas and Brian writes for the volunteer storytelling blog Amplifying Good. Note from Beth: After you read this guest post, you’ll have lots of great tips for your nonprofit’s video. Both live in North Carolina.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

After many years in the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, DC, Kivi gave up big city life to live in rural North Carolina with her husband, two young daughters, three cats, a dog and countless backyard wildlife. Derrick Feldmann. Achieve Agency.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

I'm in the DC area once or month or so. We have two children that I try not to talk about too much in open public spaces like this. That means I am very comfortable with all sorts of cloud-based tools and I like to tinker with new stuff. Most of which I've forced on my colleagues and write about somewhere.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

I'm in the DC area once or month or so. We have two children that I try not to talk about too much in open public spaces like this. That means I am very comfortable with all sorts of cloud-based tools and I like to tinker with new stuff. Most of which I've forced on my colleagues and write about somewhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. So, maybe they will make it easier for people who want to support specific schools and children. Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. I blogged it and was initially very excited! Tharum was disappointed too. TechSoup Blog also reports.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The Mobile Beacon 4G coverage area is in major US cities in 35 states and also Washington DC. Tan Vu said that families often elect to take the computers and Mobile Beacon devices with them when they leave, once they find out how useful broadband and computers are for their children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

So is Dr. Mani who will be using social media to raise money for heart surgeries for poor children in India. This fall, DC will be one of 35 cities visited by NetSquared???s I guess I'm a change blogger too. s Alex Steed. s touring the U.S., meeting with millennial activists about ???the the future of organizing.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here. A Spain-based non-profit, their main goal is to create shelters and foster homes for poor children and elderly people. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

The Washington, DC-based housing nonprofit, One Economy Corporation , gamely took on this big ambitious project to get it going and secured two $3 million grants, one from the Knight Foundation and the other by the Carlos Slim Foundation. How the Project Got Going. The project just had it's national launch fairly recently.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

BrewingGood: Face to face meetups they are piloting in Washington DC. Children's Health" or "Education"), and the duration for the grant. Here's the scoop on their SpeedGranting program: "SpeedGranting is a tool for the Facebook community to help spread the good by getting funding for worthy projects.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Karin Walser who started Horton’s Kids, a community center in SE Washington, DC, after she met a group of homeless kids while she was getting gas on her way from work. The children said they lived at the Capital City Inn, which was the city’s largest homeless shelter. ask yourself what can you do?&# said Sands.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Director, Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program, The Aspen Institute, Washington ,DC. She has written and lectured throughout the world about various leadership and management topics for the nonprofit sector. . ^ [4] Betty Jane Richmond, Ph.D., Faculty of Education, York University. ^ [5] Alan J. Abramson, Ph.D.,

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Working in a Baton Rouge shelter, he saw children looking for their parents, and parents looking for their children, yet matching them was difficult. She carries out these activities each day at the American Red Cross in Washington, DC, where she’s been employed as a social media manager since late 2006.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

The organization has a staff of 40 across three offices (Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). An example is the video of 15,000 school children in Adidas Aba rallying for "strong action and bold leadership on the climate crisis.“ These documented 5,245 actions taking place in 181 countries.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). An example is the video of 15,000 school children in Adidas Aba rallying for "strong action and bold leadership on the climate crisis.“ The organization has a staff of 40 worldwide and also three offices in the U.S. The actions were all coordinated.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

On a recent trip to DC, an old friend showed me around a new exhibit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide. This makes for a nice combination of printed and handwritten pledges, pledges local to DC and written in foreign languages as well.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

With a design inspired by GO Campaign's work for orphans and vulnerable children across the world, this 16GB Flip provides up to 4 hours of incredible high quality HD video. The winner can attend a GA101 or GA301 in DC (March 29-31), Columbus (April 11-13), Boston (May 18-20) or NYC (June 7-9). Want to share it?

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Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2007

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Everyaction

MAY 16, 2018

According to their website, “Through integrated special education and mental health services, Positive Education Program (PEP) is able to provide individualized care to children and youth experiencing emotional disturbances and demonstrating severe and challenging behaviors.” The Village Network.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 4, 2023

While city, state, and regional-level data exist, the Congressional District Health Dashboard launched in January 2023 as a first-of-its-kind resource, offering trusted data on health and its drivers for all 435 (and Washington DC) U.S. congressional districts.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

. —Young, Black & Lit was started by book lovers who understand the critical importance of reading and representation in the lives of children. Their mission is simple, to increase access to children’s books that center, reflect, and affirm the experiences of Black children. . DC Juneteenth.

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Forum One

APRIL 3, 2006

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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