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NTC Storytellers: Day of Service Wireless Router Installation at Community for Creative Nonviolence

NTEN

A Photo Essay by Wendy Marinaccio A team of 30 NTEN-ers volunteered our mornings at the Community for Creative Nonviolence, which runs the largest homeless shelter in the country. The teams enjoy lunch together, thanks to DC Central Kitchen Fresh Start Catering. Me with Peter and Theresa.) Our router!

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NTC Day of Service 2011: The Art of Story Capture

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year’s Day of Service featured three different projects – a computer recycling project and installation of a wireless network in Washington, DC’s largest homeless shelter and meal preparation at DC Central Kitchen. Meal Preparation at DC Central Kitchen. Tech Recycling Day.

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Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

Care2

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. Diverse Goals. Connecting and enriching a national movement.

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Greater Washington Give to the Max Day Training Event

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. While they had a relatively smaller number of followers on Twitter or Facebook, they had focused on engaging their community online.

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Net2Local November Event Preview

Tech Soup

Net2Local is a project of TechSoup Global that invites activists, techies, nonprofits and the social good community together to meet monthly in 50 cities around the world. Washington, DC: NetSquared DC Happy Hour. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Content Marketing - Share Content, Get Noticed & Engage Your Community.

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Using Smartphones and Portable Wi-Fi Hotspots to Tell Your Story

Tech Soup

Storytelling with Mobile Video. The Mobile Beacon 4G coverage area is in major US cities in 35 states and also Washington DC. They're a homeless services and neighborhood revitalization nonprofit that serves West Philly. " May well be. TechSoup has some tools that may come in handy. Tell Your Story.

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Five Online Fundraising Tips to Raise More Money

Care2

Example of Bad Subject Line: Renew Your Commitment to End Dog Homelessness. Example of Good Subject Line: Help Keep a Puppy Safe in DC’s Blizzard! You don’t have to be the world’s greatest storyteller to tell a compelling story to your members. What’s Wrong with it?

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