Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

What Community Engagement Means at PIMCO. At PIMCO, we understand that it’s our responsibility to effect meaningful social change, both as members of an organization and as part of our larger communities. The Power of Partnerships & the Sustainable Development Goals. Tools of Engagement. The Values That Drive US.

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Hunger Empowerment Asia Europe 29

Nimble AMS

MAY 20, 2019

Salesforce uses this Hawaiian word which means “family” to describe their culture and the larger family of their customers, employees, partners and communities that “…take care of each other, have fun together, and work collaboratively to make the world a better place.” A huge and supportive user community. Data security.

Associations 60

Associations Classes Platform Empowerment 60

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders. While art, history, creativity, and culture are the vehicles for that empowerment, the teens involved spend a lot of their time with activists, civic leaders, and social psychologists.

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Teen Change Museum History 45

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

food banks, hospitals, community programs for seniors). Finally, many organizations not on the frontlines, but still needed in community (the majority of non-profits) are experiencing a financial and HR crisis – many, if not most, have had to cut staff and/or staff hours. . If so, why? I certainly hope so!

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Canada Volunteer Virtual Companies 27

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

The Accelerator Summit included interactive sessions show casing their programs in these areas: workforce development , employee giving , environment , online safety , and the role of technology in the non-profit community. We embed the product donation with a connection to the community and capacity building.&#.

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Network Change Technology Social 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. If participation was my mantra from 2007-2011, community has been my mantra since then. But almost ALL of those opportunities are facilitated by people. Build community. Empowerment?

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock.

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Accessibility eBook People Copyright 135

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. We did this on Day 1.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Hundreds of unique, hand-made art postcards, containing words of compassion and solidarity are hand delivered to individuals and communities all over the world, bringing connection, hope, visibility and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence or repression. What is the path that brought you to this work?

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

Let's say your organization has a mission to increase X (art, healthy kids, clean water, community cohesiveness, etc.). The more my organization has become focused on community engagement, the more we've balanced being experience producers with being experience co-creators/facilitators. I feel great about this approach.

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San Diego Work Museum Model 20

CauseVox

MARCH 13, 2024

About Spur Local Spur Local (formerly Catalogue for Philanthropy), is a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening communities in the Greater Washington region. Founded in 2003, the organization initially served as an annual publication, helping donors discover and support community-based nonprofits with limited outreach capabilities.

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Local Campaign Raise Story 78

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. What we do is essentially support social entrepreneurship within refugee communities. We like to refer to it as a "people-powered" development process.

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Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. It has to be an inner city community. We love it.

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Oakland San Francisco Companies Business 61

Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

The session, presented by Cultural Connections , focused on museums, exhibits, and programs specifically developed to inspire visitors to take action in their own lives to create social change. People don't need empowerment to make a difference; they need vehicles for action.

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Model Action Congo Museum 26

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2022

Facilitating smallholder farmers’ access to financial markets enables them to hedge against risks they face so they can invest in more profitable entrepreneurial activities.

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Global United States Policy International 52

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. It could be training in information and communication technology, or it could be a training on a local water filter that would be helpful for people to bring to their communities.

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Green Global Action Network 40

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Redefining Philanthropy - Dwayne Rice Build a Salesforce application to facilitate a culture of philanthropy around education reform by providing a platform to track constituent engagement to lead people up the engagement ladder. Includes computer labs, classrooms, video recording studio, and current technology accessible to the community.

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Ideas North Carolina Map Children 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

Or for a dedicated app to be developed that rewards conscious consumption, social responsibility, and civic engagement. Behind the scenes, though, we’ll see massive new sets of data available to campaigns for targeting, empowerment, and optimization. Voters will be more engaged in the moment, right down to casting their votes.

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Change Disaster Green Los Angeles 108