Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. Write and run statistical analysis in R, including survey estimation, geospatial analysis, and general linear model fitting. Process, clean, and transform data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The campaign was modeled after the grand daddy of match days that happens throughout the entire state of Minnesota. Our ability to imagine new and previously untapped opportunities for collaboration and bring them to fruition has helped us succeed. Launched in 2009, the third match day will happen on Wednesday, November 16th.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Granted, due to the limitations of fully automated conversion, this is not perfect braille, and we continuously work with experts to improve the quality of our Braille Ready Files (in the BRF format). Image by the National Braille Press, a DIAGRAM subcontract. We are addressing key questions such as: When is a tactile required?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

We must track and communicate well with our donors, members, and volunteers — really anyone who interacts with our organizations, including press and partner organizations. It helps charities engage with donors and volunteers, manage grants and finances, and coordinate projects from the field or anywhere with an Internet connection.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 31, 2016

On a macro level, leadership development strengthens the nonprofit sector as a whole; it often leads to collaboration and innovation amongst creative leaders. Adam has been a grant advisor for The Pollination Project. Adam’s work has been featured in Sedona Monthly Magazine, The State Press, and Sedona Red Rock News, among others.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

Thinking about things alone is one thing, but being a pretty typical collaborative type of nonprofit we pulled in the New Sector Alliance and some UC Berkeley Haas Graduate School of Business volunteers to really help us think through this. Several models also come with Symantec Norton Antivirus 2012 with system restore capabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

In the two frameworks I've been co-creating, Transmedia Activism Modeling Global Change, we've based the frameworks on the core value of putting the social change issue first. The same constructs which were discussed around combating issue fatigue can be used in creating a cultural movement around an issue.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The simple fact is that the New Year presents a wonderful opportunity to press pause and get ready for the coming year. I know of a handful of grantmakers who have put a yearlong hold on their grant programs to focus on strategic alignment. We live in a connected world, so open yourself up to collaboration.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. Our new catalog and website will be up within the next two months.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

will focus on donor cultivation, an essential step to getting the grant. We are here to talk about how to get more grants, specifically through donor cultivation. You can even do grant tracking, which we love as well. Her initials may be MBP, but to me, she’s the MVP of grants. Margit Brazda Poirier, GPC, M.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! AFP Blog points the Mindblizzard Blog story about how the Dutch Red Cross will begin fundraising in Second Life using Yike Strum , a top model, as their Red Cross ambassador. NetSquared. NpTech Talk.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

and discover how to reach your audiences more directly through social and digital media, while still landing placements through the national press or your local newspapers and broadcast stations. Grant Managers Network Annual Conference. Grant Managers Network Annual Conference. Grants / #GMN2016 / @grantsmanagers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Heather McLeod-Grant has written up an important lessons learned report about the project and summarized they key findings in the guest post below. By Heather McLeod Grant. Simultaneously, collaboration and “networking” is becoming the new norm, rather than the exception. Lessons from the Pioneers in Justice Program.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And that might involve collaboration, saying, “We acknowledge that there are others in the community that do this better or more effectively. You might do this with news or press releases and radio interviews, you may be looking at the reach and the listening audience to say, “How many people did you engage?”

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

On January 31st, the social web erupted with status updates, images, and more in response to the Associated Press report that the Susan G. An interesting model to use for comparison is Occupy Wall Street. Komen Foundation had decided to de-fund breast health screenings at Planned Parenthood affiliates. Five hundred people?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

Because those communications people need to really collaborate well with their colleagues in the development team and the programs team, you know, throughout your organization. Earned media is when you get press or coverage by somebody else. People people. I think it gets talked about sort of around the edges sometimes.

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Candid

JUNE 21, 2022

In addition to representing Candid, I was there to learn about trends in the European philanthropic sector and explore opportunities for collaboration. As I process the many sessions I attended and the new connections that were made, three key trends stick out: interconnectedness, evidence driven hope, and new funding models.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

"To us, it's really about collaboration. If you look around the world at some of the most pressing environmental challenges, you see women on the front lines of those challenges. This was a collaboration among several organizations, A Single Drop, Crabgrass, ProNet Accra, and Women's Earth Alliance.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

The practice of funding has traditionally been lopsided in favor of those doing the granting. When funding is awarded it comes at the cost of time, energy, and resources that could otherwise be spent concentrating on impact; and if the grant proposal is rejected, all that time and energy was for naught. Be transparent and responsive.

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