Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills. I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills. Year in Review.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories. And that’s not to mention the hassle that sometimes comes with trying to get young children excited about reading.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We like to think that most nonprofits are concerned about their reach toward individuals who might struggle to connect with their offerings, at least in the best of times. To be sure, the pandemic has thrown a wrench into ways that nonprofits have engaged their stakeholders over the past couple years. But now we are limping along.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. In the US, I keynoted and gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Pittsburgh , North Carolina , Buffalo , and Omaha. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration? Training on a hoard of ICT topics is available on-line and in the classroom.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are so many different kinds of nonprofit event ideas out there! The type of events that will work best for your nonprofit will depend on three major factors: Your organization’s mission, your available resources, and your supporter’s preferences. It’s a healthy and engaging way to support your nonprofit’s cause.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. Since 2003, the nonprofit has saved more than 6,000 animals, and the project is growing fast. As we grow, QuickBooks for Nonprofits meets our needs. HART for Animals.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. Britt Bravo: What does a typical class day look like?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

Streetside Stories is a San Francisco based arts education nonprofit that actually just started a blog , so give them a little link love! I work with a co-facilitator and we visit sixth grade language arts and social studies classes for two-week writing workshops. That really baffled me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Graduate students doing research or teaching in Second Life have formed a mobile colony that holds discussions with experts in subjects like online ethics or aesthetics What they didn't mention is the new Nonprofit Island that will be opening a few weeks. I'm embargoed from saying much more, but pretty soon.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

Anya Achtenberg will be teaching an online workshop, Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World, later this year. This August they will co-teach a workshop on memoir, “The World Outside-The World Within, Living and Writing Your Story," at the Leaven Center in Lyons, MI. You can subscribe to her blog here. Engage in the world.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 8, 2021

This post is the third in a series designed to teach the art of nailing the perfect pitch. The sponsor packet will sometimes be a potential supporter’s first impression of your nonprofit, and you want it to be as positive and impressive as possible. We teach nutrition and cooking. Are you prepared to #NailYourPitch?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Educating to Mobilize the Masses David Williamson Shaffer (UW-Madison), Doug Nelson (Doorknocker Simulation/ Kinnection), Nelson Layag (CompassPoint Nonprofit Services) How can organizations educate their masses for door-to-door canvassing, fundraising, or advocacy? We can create a game based on these concepts and build epistemic games.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

You teach people how to relate to you. ” You know, you could say something like in one sentence, “You are helping kids go from bullied, and disconnected, and really struggling in the classroom to becoming a leader in their community amongst their peers and applying for college.” Yep, Sam, I see you. ” Boom.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Nonprofits, schools, churches, and many other organizations were forced to get creative to come up with fundraising ideas during COVID. When the pandemic first started, who could’ve guessed that it would change the way many nonprofits fundraise forever? Virtual cooking class. Virtual baking class. Virtual scavenger hunt.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2015

You can imagine how pleased I was when I was introduced to an organization that combined my two loves, #GivingTuesday and teaching kids about giving. This year on #GivingTuesday, Learning to Give is asking teachers to join the international movement to celebrate an opening day to the giving season by doing what they do best, by teaching.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

one of my favorite things about our guests is she’s been in her shoes, right, she’s been an ED, she’s been not just a consultant but also has worked for and with nonprofits directly, which is great, over two decades. Every business, whether it be for-profit or nonprofit business, is usually created for purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. For teaching and learning. I'm nervous. Openness - ???? You aren??????t

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2021

While monetary donations are helpful for keeping nonprofits going, donation drives are great for helping nonprofits meet specific needs, especially during times when supply shortages are common. Students and teachers excel in classrooms that have all the resources they need to keep learning and teaching.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

A couple years ago I was working at a nonprofit, and I made a call to a small grassroots organizing group in Arkansas. TEALS is a national YouthSpark program that places computer engineers into high school classrooms to teach students computer science in schools where they haven't the expertise or resources to provide the classes.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I could practically teaching this class. That way, we were able to take the kids directly from the classroom and walk them down to the clinic to make sure we have 100% of students actually able to get to their mental health appointment. In our nonprofit sector, I think we use that a lot. Move aside, Julie.

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Amy Costello: Welcome to Tiny Spark , a podcast of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Costello: So, in his new book, Reich is joining with some other adults and, like any good parents, they’re trying to steer the aspiring techies in their classroom toward a healthier and wiser destination. I’m Amy Costello. And I said, “Really?

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