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What is the scaffolding for learning in public?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Goldmine Project is sharing a, well, goldmine of knowledge around what makes for a successful nonprofit consultant and organization relationship. There has been an interesting discussion on the wiki and blogs about strategy for public learning.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Invisible Children’s film tapped into a network of celebrities, whose tweets and status updates helped to amplify a simple story and call to action. In many ways, however, the KONY2012 episode is an old story about the power of social capital and strong narratives.

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Lessons from IGS16: The How-To’s for Applying the SDGs to Grantmaking

Connection Cafe

Beyond its scope for learning and knowledge sharing, this year was special in that it was set within the framework of the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). IDP’s pilot program in Ghana started with initial enrollment of 27,000 children and now is expected to reach a total of 150,000 children by July 2017.

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Report Back from the Do Good Data Conference 2015

NTEN

The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy. Ah, well, that didn’t come to pass, and my finance knowledge sits largely, sadly, unused. I would have saved the world!

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