EveryAction

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Launched in 2012 by music legend Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, the Born This Way Foundation develops programs that support its mission to connect young people in safe ways and empowering them with the skills and opportunities that will inspire them to create a kinder and braver world. Children's Literacy Initiative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Growing Pains Founded in 1926, AbilityFirst (formerly known as the Crippled Children’s Society of Southern California or CCS) was created to help children with polio and other physical disabilities, and I was hired in 1998 to turn around this disability service organization. Takeaway 3: The board needs training.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Have people register for your event, then livestream the class to your participants so they can learn some new skills and recipes from the comfort of their own homes. Check out how Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass put their supporters’ hunting skills to the test with their Scavenger Hunt for Kids’ Sake fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Your participants get the chance to showcase their unique skills–whether it’s singing, dancing, or any other talent they’d like to show off. Your supporters can pay an entrance fee for the chance to show off their decorating skills and even win a prize for their hard work. Tax tips event Taxes are stressful!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I’ve been curating resources and teaching workshops on the topic of information coping skills for a couple of years. His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. He suggests these goals: 1. Now, that’s inspiring!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The site matches skills-based volunteers with nonprofits to do just in time projects like logo or business card design, marketing help, and other small volunteering tasks. It’s advice most often dispensed to discourage children from squandering their birthday money, but it is perhaps just as appropriate in this context.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

In order to make sure all the finalists could hone their ideas with the needs of human trafficking survivors front and center, the Partnership for Freedom organized an innovation workshop. One of the unique things about the innovation workshop is that it gave us a chance to provide feedback to our fellow finalists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Teresa Crawford is in Kiev in the Ukraine doing a workshop on Web2.0 for NGOs there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

I was an early adopter of this approach back in 2006 and over the years I have had the opportunity to raise over $250,000 for a charity that supports Cambodian children using these techniques as part of online giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2014

"In this short film, Hope House honored us by allowing our cameras into a maximum security prison to document their camp program reconnecting children with their incarcerated fathers. We accept this award on behalf of the Manos Internacional board of directors, volunteers, and children.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

NetSquared is TechSoup's volunteer-driven global network of nonprofit technology workshops and networking events. We also help poor children and poor schools. We help children with school fees, computer training, and many other things. What Is NetSquared? We help the elderly with basic needs. What NGOs in Uganda Need.

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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. Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! Register now!

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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. Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! Register now!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

Halting of after-school programs to keep children curious/engaged. Facilitate virtual mentoring, college application review, or interview skills workshop, like Mission Graduates is doing. . – Host virtual story time or recess where kids play together on Zoom video. DISEASE FOUNDATIONS. Urgent issues.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Educational events hosted by nonprofits are powerful tools for sharing knowledge, developing skills, and empowering communities. Classes Nonprofit organizations often offer classes that cover a wide array of topics, from literacy and language skills to financial literacy and job training.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2014

And, when children enter school, they have to master the educational standards in their curriculum. Question : How can you pinpoint the “Mutual Agenda” and align your skills, interests, knowledge and passion to the goals of your team or organization? Creating expectations early and reinforcing them often.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2014

And, when children enter school, they have to master the educational standards in their curriculum. Question : How can you pinpoint the “Mutual Agenda” and align your skills, interests, knowledge and passion to the goals of your team or organization? Creating expectations early and reinforcing them often.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2013

And, when children enter school, they have to master the educational standards in their curriculum. Question : How can you pinpoint the “Mutual Agenda” and align your skills, interests, knowledge and passion to the goals of your team or organization? Creating expectations early and reinforcing them often.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2005

The blog includes posts about HIV support groups and workshops, health and treatment news, personal success stories, and a lot more. The home is managed by a 62 year old skilled nurse, who also is responsible for long term follow up.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Ahern was surprised that basic skills he took for granted as a sales copywriter – like the deft use of emotional triggers to prompt action, for instance; or reverence for the customer – were often missing in the donor communications he saw. She is an in-demand keynote speaker and workshop facilitator. Derrick Feldmann. Achieve Agency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I've even taught my children about creative commons (check out Harry's screencast - What A Second Grader Knows About Creative Commons that earned him a feature story in the School Library Association Journal) All of this assumes that people really bother to look at the license, understand it , and respect the rules.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in three sessions: a Pecha Kucha design blitz, a dialogue on bridging online/onsite connections, and a discussion of the IMLS 21st Century Skills report. Chuck offered a quote from an advisory psychologist who commented that "children should be the brightest thing in the space." Worth, Texas.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

DIY Craft Workshop Tap into the creative spirit of your community by organizing do-it-yourself craft workshops, charging a small fee for participants to learn new skills and create unique projects. Offer Classes Host workshops or classes in various skills, charging an admission fee for participation.

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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.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

After her husband’s sudden death in 1955, and with three children to raise, my grandmother grew the store, purchasing the ends of fabric bolts and ribbons from local mills, secondhand clothing, toys, dishwares, books, and an assortment of knickknacks to sell. They sold army surplus in catalog sales to boy scouts.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Museum programs can be designed to further bond similar groups together such as families and friends in family workshops such as the Dallas Museum of Art’s First Tuesdays. We give visitors a new skill to claim rather than a product and work intensely with our collaborators to insure active participation in their activities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

Having managed adult volunteers to work with the young people in Streetside Stories workshops for many years, I know what a difference adult tutors and mentors can make in a young person's life and I appreciate Daniel's creating an online space for them to nework and share experiences.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They bring a diverse set of experiences, skills, talents, perspectives. And then again, inviting people to attend events that are in your network, your professional, personal, religious, children’s networks, invite friends, invite prospects. They are natural storytellers and advocates for your organization.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

In DC, I worked half-time for NASA as an electrical engineer and half-time for the Capital Children's Museum (now defunct) as a science educator. I designed electricity workshops for families. I applied to work for This American Life (rejected) and in the meantime fell in love with someone who lived in Washington D.C.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Are they wanting to fund children’s programs? That higher education level, the ability to communicate, the ability to complete their education affects probably their spouse or their partner, it might affect their children. ” You can also speak to the skills and the talents and the successes of those leading the program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. The project supports a cohort of children’s health care insurance advocates with monthly peer calls, a face-to-face annual workshop, and expert one-on-one coaching from SpitFire coaches.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

But, as an adult, the moment that catalyzed my work was when I was in graduate school at NYU studying history, and I learned about the Black Panthers' Free Breakfast for Children program. I was really moved by their analysis that looked at the intersection between poverty, institutional racism, and malnutrition, or food insecurity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010. The man denied it and left.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

While this is more luck than strategy or skill, it’s still an incredibly engaging and exciting way to raise some money! For instance, if your organization is dedicated to children battling cancer, you might also send costumes to the kids in need. “A These involve players using various forms of transportation to visit 5-7 locations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

Our youth are working creatively to create other ways of communicating those messages in terms of workshops and presentations that are fun, engaging, and cool, and that's a very important aspect. And it's all primarily youth run, as well, so it's another kind of laboratory for our young people to learn business skills.

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