Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Your local NetSquared group is here to help with free, in-person events being held across the U.S. If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Or you can apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Feeling overwhelmed?

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. Check out the [blog]([link] to get a taste of our grassroots community. * **Katharine Bierce** recorded her recent [tech and philanthropy panel]([link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

This effort was realized thanks to more than 10 months of work by a team of 43 volunteer translators based in Brazil, France, Mexico and the US. It is an innovative alternative to commercial social networking sites such as Facebook and Orkut, and contains over 2,000 member-created groups and 110,000 organizations in its directory.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

NetSquared Local groups hold monthly in-person events for anyone interested in the connection of technology and social impact. Check out our map of events to find your closest group. How big is the NetSquared Local community? How big is the NetSquared Local community? Number of countries with active groups: 20.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2017

NetSquared organizers bring together the nonprofit technology community for face-to-face meetings. Join us at your local group. Find your closest NetSquared group. If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The exact format isn’t important, as long as we are consistently gathering the nonprofit and tech communities together so that they can learn from each other. A social media surgery is an informal gathering of people who want to learn how to use the web to communicate, campaign or collaborate. Interested in learning more?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. Part of our approach to community involvement in planning Spun had to do with necessity; we needed help to pull this off. What inspires them?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 9, 2009

Great questions: Social media is becoming a key driver of social change, allowing for the dissemination of new ideas, the formation of new communities and coalitions and the realization of new efficiencies and reach by existing social change groups. Tags: community events. And beyond. Stay on topic!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2010

FACT is committed to addressing the fundamental inequalities and injustices in our society by helping develop and sustain networks of community-based groups in the U.S. and France that educate, organize, and empower people to actively participate in developing public policies that directly affect their lives.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

I've posted a couple of times about giving circles, groups of people who get together to learn about an organization's work, and pool their donations to have a greater impact. Jane Goodall has founded so many things including the Jane Goodall Institute , and Roots and Shoots , a community service program for young people.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 7, 2009

Great questions: Social media is becoming a key driver of social change, allowing for the dissemination of new ideas, the formation of new communities and coalitions and the realization of new efficiencies and reach by existing social change groups. And beyond. Twitter, I believe, provides us with such a platform.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2013

Highlights from the Community. The Social Media Surgery community (of which Net2 Manchester organizer Steven Flower is a key member) won the BBC Learning Through Technology Award. NetSquared Local organizers will be descending on their communities in full social media surgeon costume this September. A Sneak Peek at the Future.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

Some stick and go “viral” while others just get shared with a small community of friends, and some go nowhere. The meme then spread to France and the US, and was picked up by media such as Mashable, Huffington Post, MSNBC, ABC, etc. New memes get started everyday.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

FACT is committed to addressing the fundamental inequalities and injustices in our society by helping develop and sustain networks of community-based groups in the U.S. and France that educate,

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

For example, France Telecom-Orange has made anonymized records of five million mobile phone users in Cote d'Ivoire available to the research community as part of the Data for Development Challenge. Private companies are also testing the concept by actually sharing data. Seeing Like a State in Africa: Data Needed.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We believe that NGOs learn best from each other, so NetSquared provides a platform where we can come together face to face to share technology tips and create a community of practice around tech for good. Find your local #Tech4Good group. If there isn't a group nearby, we'll help you start your own NetSquared group.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Once again, the amazing NTEN community rallied to support one another. Community Organizer 2.0. NS Marketing Group. Frances Taylor (super donor! In the last two weeks, you raised over $7,000 for the 10NTC Scholarship Campaign ! That's 48 scholarships we can offer to staff at small nonprofits. Exciting, right? Rick Cohen.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Laura’s experience working at and serving on the board of multiple arts organizations around the country shape her insights into the nonprofit community. Let them know how they’re helping the community and how they can do it even more in the future. Product Marketing Manager for Arts and Cultural Solutions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Seniors are also the most likely age group to volunteer for 100 or more hours per year. Many retired volunteers do not identify as “senior citizens,” so methods of recruiting for other age groups may work well to recruit retirees also. 2000. ^ [2] Lee, Jarene Frances and Julia M. America's Senior Volunteers." Energize, Inc.,

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

I met many new people and learned a lot about technology and community, but the learning wasn''t the point, enjoying the resolutions was. And we generated over 18,000 mood data points for our researcher, Frances Ulman, Ph.D. We retained 96% of our participants throughout the month. They were 81% compliant with texting back their mood.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

They are either from other countries, or they are embedded in communities of color or of other places, or they've traveled and worked extensively with communities. I went to France. My great-grandparents were dairymen and dairywomen, so I went to France, and I dabbled a little bit in cheese making. What brought you here?

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

As corporations become more global, their employees and customers are asking them to engage more with nonprofits in their communities. To get a sense of the complexity involved in connecting these groups to make an impact, take three countries’ unique nonprofit data stories: Organizations have a variety of registration types.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Here's a nice collection of links from the NTEN blog with good footnotes that includes a pointer to the ChicagoTechnology Cooperative , a group comprised of consultants, technicians, developers, and designers, with extensive experience serving the unique needs of nonprofit and community-based organizations. Are there others?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

By better understanding the wide cultural roots of this season of generosity we can fine-tune the means to communicate with all who make up our communities. By expanding out from the homogeneous group we also demonstrate acts of leadership within that more numerous portion of the local and national population. There are 7.5

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

And in those communities high school is a luxury, so the local school in the local community typically goes through sixth grade. Three hundred dollars a year is a huge barrier for kids in this community, and kids all over the developing world. So, this community got organized. It sounds pretty cheap to you and me.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

But her experience and those of the residents in her community inspired her greatest work, A Raisin in the Sun , the first play written by an African American to be produced on Broadway. Groups like the Lady Parts Justice , Ms. Edmonia Lewis. Want to hear more from feminist philosophers and advocates? Queen Anna Nzinga. Kamala Harris.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 31, 2010

After reading each of her books: Hope's Edge (that she co-authored with her mother, Frances Moore Lappé), Grub (that she co-authored with Bryant Terry), and now her new book, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It , I've felt hopeful and energized. Not Anna Lappé's books.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

According to the latest blog post on Causes.com , to date: “186 million registered users in 156 countries have raised over $48 million for nonprofits, collected 34 million signatures for grassroots advocacy campaigns and created hundreds of thousands of online groups around important social issues.”

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

I have learned that there is an enormous diversity within the sector – higher education institutions, advocacy groups, public broadcasting stations, health organizations, unions, associations and relief organizations are distinct from each other. Sheeraz Haji: Back then I had the naïve view that all nonprofits were alike.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

I have learned that there is an enormous diversity within the sector – higher education institutions, advocacy groups, public broadcasting stations, health organizations, unions, associations and relief organizations are distinct from each other. Sheeraz Haji: Back then I had the naïve view that all nonprofits were alike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2008

Wells, Blogger and Community Organizer "We need to treat many of our social tools like door knocking, if someone comments on our site, we should take that as a hello, and use it to open a door to a potential relationship with a new leader, member, or supporter." A listing of these groups is also available on our website.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

I love a group of sci-fi nerds, exterminate, Daleks. I recommend always, always, always I talk about this, focus on building a real community that will follow you no matter where you set up shop, they will follow you no matter where you set up shop. How do I spot trafficking in my community? I’d be very interested.

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