Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. It is a technique that is used in Open Space design. I find inspiration from reading about new techniques, observing them in action by masters, writing about it, trying it, and reflecting on it.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. A panel of community advisors reviewed the submissions, and chose 25 finalists – all of whom won significant grants. Google then invited the public to vote for the top winners.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

or Code for Oakland ). One of the projects, GoodGym , is a group fitness app where participants get fit by doing physical tasks that benefit their communities. Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global-wide community of hackers and social leaders with the common goal of building open technology for a better world.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 25, 2021

However, this year—as hate crimes against Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities and anti-Asian COVID-19 rhetoric spike—I find myself pleading that these words stay true for my family and community. . In addition to individual action, there is great power in turning to my Salesforce.org community for support.

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2011

Yesterday in Oakland, California I had the privilege of speaking at a conference. Community Service. TechSoup Global has its roots in supporting social benefit organizations and understands the power of organizing data into meaningful information, and we continue to provide resources in that regards as part of our DNA and mission.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Organized by Insafe , and co-founded by the European Union, Safer Internet Day is a global campaign that encourages responsible use of online technologies and services. You can also find information for planning your own safety event for your staff or community. Oakland, CA. Join the Conversation. Safety Wisdom. Toronto.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

As part of the Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore apps targeted toward youth as well as apps developed by youth. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. Let us know in the comments!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Join our global tweet chat on September 4 for the best examples of nonprofit storytelling. We’ve rounded up almost thirty other community nonprofit technology events being held this September, so you’re sure to find something new. North Richland Hills, TX: Managing Your Biggest Asset: Relationships and Community Engagement.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

If you're in the Bay Area November 18-20, come check out Aspiration's 2009 Nonprofit Software Development Summit in Oakland. This is the third time Aspiration has hosted this event, and by the look of the session list , there will be no shortage of great discussions. The conference isn't only for programmers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

2012 Stacey Edgar, Founder, Global Girlfriend listen 2011 Gabriela Masala, Founder, One Love Alliance listen Robert Wolfe, Co-Founder, Crowdrise listen Aneesha Raghunathan, Founder, Hope Line Fashions listen Rachel Cohen, Founder and Executive Director, Hand2Paw listen Kathy LeMay, Founder, Raising Change. Happy listening!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. The organization is one of the most prominent front -line, direct-action environmental nonprofits addressing the problem of global climate change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

listen read Jessica Prentice, Co-Owner, Three Stone Hearth: A Community Supported Kitchen. Listen Read Nola Brantley, Parenting and Youth Enrichment Director, and the Coordinator of the Sexually Abused and Commercially Exploited Youth Program at the George P.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Genocide Intervention Network Mission: "The Genocide Intervention Network empowers individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide." GI-NET's blog Global Fund for Women Mission: "The Global Fund for women promotes women's economic security, health, education and leadership." Mission: "Spot.Us

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. The organization is one of the most prominent front -line, direct-action environmental nonprofits addressing the problem of global climate change.

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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. They all represent either a farmer, educator, activist, or chef, but they still share the connection that they're aware of global issues. What brought you here?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Inside the box was a brochure for the Oakland Zoo. It's important to give back to your local and global community, but it is also important to "give back" to your friends and family. When she opened the tiny little box, glued inside the lid was a piece of paper that unfolded, like a fortune cookie fortune.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. Jensine Larsen: World Pulse is a global media enterprise fully devoted to bringing women a global voice.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Ingrid Severson is the lead project organizer of the Rooftop Resources project, a project of the Oakland non-profit Bay Localize. This is in response to global warming and peak oil. We're choosing a one half-square mile region of Oakland. We're targeting the city of Oakland because it's a great city.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

The primary need, obviously, in our community, West Oakland, is a lack of access to healthy and affordable foods. Heart disease is the number one killer in the community, and diabetes is number two, and if you combine all of the diet-related chronic diseases that are in the community, it makes up over half of the mortality rate.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago. More Power, Lower Prices.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

SOUL is a training center based here in Oakland. We just recently moved to downtown Oakland, and we talk about ourselves as a school to build a movement. And in terms of how I got involved with SOUL, I was actually teaching for a very brief period in the Oakland middle schools. So I’m only 26. We also here at SOUL sell manuals.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

The three Bay Area municipalities, along with Oakland and San Francisco (who haven't placed their orders yet) have all signed-on to be part of Plug-In Bay Area, an initiative to put more plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road. They recognize that citizens are extremely concerned about global warming. What's going on?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work. I ended up in it from way back, from where I grew up.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? Our age ranges in all of our global training sites range from 19 to 56. CH: Right, exactly.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Cami Walker, Founder, 29 Day Giving Challenge The 29 Day Giving Challenge is a global giving movement where participants give away one thing each day for 29 days. I work with a medicine woman from Oakland. There's a woman named Erin who is a community manager of our site. We practice gratitude. Her name is Mbali Creazzo.

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APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. So, this community got organized.

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JULY 3, 2006

But, then also recognizing it has real positive impacts on our ability to have community with each other. Steve Williams: The first thing that folks should do is to locate an organization in your community. SOUL is located here in the Bay area, in Oakland.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2006

And that is to help people to learn about themselves, to help people connect and learn more about community, and to help people connect more to the Earth. So we thought about it, well, what's the best way to go from this idea to this ultimate vision of a community center with a restaurant and all this interaction going on?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2014

Early in his nonprofit career, David became the founding director of the Eastmont Computing Center in East Oakland (now called the David Glover Education and Technology Center ). David also organized an effort in cooperation with the nonprofit CiviCRM community to create a data standard called the People Finder Interchange Format.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

ESRI makes their global coverage basemaps available for free to layer beneath your own map. Perhaps the single most useful feature for nonprofits is a great time saver and quality booster called ArcGIS Online. In the past, every organization had to maintain their own detailed basemaps and aerial photography for map context.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Due to the fact that the focus of these media corporations is on creating profits rather than social justice, the many answers that we demand as conscious global citizens become conditional. Our mission is to strengthen the voice of activist artists - 'Artivists' - while raising public awareness for social global causes."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

--Favianna Rodriguez Below is the edited transcript of a Big Vision Podcast interview from November 13, 2008 with Favianna Rodriguez, a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. I do works on paper so that I can distribute them to schools and community centers, and just post them up in the street.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Mustard Seed Communities. Top Nonprofit Website: Mustard Seed Communities. Since 1978, Mustard Seed Communities has cared for vulnerable populations across the globe. Their organization’s mission is to nourish the most in-need members of the community through the best medicine there is — healthy food! Project Open Hand.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Similarly, there has been a global rise of worker-managed platform cooperatives in response to the rise of platform companies. The development of a fully functioning on-demand app is expected to bring more visibility to the cooperative rideshare community in the coming year. million through its ongoing crowdfunding campaign.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She is one of our great online community organizers. In 2013, she co-authored Social Change Anytime Everywhere: How to implement online multichannel strategies to spark advocacy, raise money, and engage your community with Allyson Kaplin. She’s one of our great forward-thinking people at TechSoup Global.

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JUNE 30, 2007

That there was this notion that the dance community is inherently political, and I thought well, not really. It's based, not just on art and politics, it's also about personal transformation and community. And as Britt said, I also am the Art and Media Director at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , which is based out of Oakland.

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