Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised $2 million in 24 hours using the Razoo platform. Maybe one is that Giving Tuesday becomes an official national holiday or becomes an annual event like Cyber Monday.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

The Iraq War was raging. site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. In the end analysis, nonprofits and NGOs build communities and are sustained by communities. The new platform and the new tools are all about communities. What could the peace community do?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

A: We are wholly driven by our community. A: No, it more sorts of rolls along from our approach [ focusing on the community ]. Also working with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America to help get them the respect and services they deserve, working on reform of the VA. I may be one, but it seems to have too many syllables.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Hands On Network brings people together to strengthen communities through meaningful volunteer action. San Francisco to teaching reading in Atlanta, to rebuilding homes and lives in the Gulf coast communities. It is a way for people to invest in each other and help foster economic independence around the globe.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2008

Each blogger will lead an online community focusing on a different social, political, or environmental issue, maintain a daily blog covering news and offering commentary, convene leading nonprofits and activists working on the issue, and help people translate their interests and passions into concrete action. blogging job activism

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

She says: “I like to reach communities that we haven’t reached before in the developing world like what we’re doing to bridge the digital divide with the Aga Khan Development Network in Mozambique. I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia.

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MAY 25, 2007

Gore suggested that if the net was as powerful six years ago as it was today, that maybe we wouldn’t have had so many yes votes for the Iraq war because the press would have been pressured to tell the American people more directly that Iraq was not responsible for 9-11 (which 70% of Americans believed and 50% still believe.)

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The same study showed that among older Internet users who are members of online communities, 58 percent log in to their communities one or more times daily, compared to 47 percent of community members under 20. She quickly set aside any qualms about going online; her grandson took priority. and other countries.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

That’s the day Iraq invaded Kuwait, an event that would start a domino effect that has lasted more than 20 years. Author: Kent Gilliam. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the only thing on the news on August 2, 1990. I was just 19 at the time and not really sure what I wanted to do with my life.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

Currently, we are working on building clientele in Doha, Qatar as we continue to work with longtime partners the Supreme Education Council and the Supreme Council of Information Communication and Technology. Department of State and Rashad Hussain , the U.S. Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2007

PeacePlayers International is a nonprofit organization that uses basketball to unite and educate children and their communities in conflict and post-conflict areas. CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq. Beth Kanter posted about this a couple weeks ago.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

What could be better than a fabulous organization getting recognized for the important work they do by the entire Convio community during our recent Convio Summit in Baltimore ? They’re frequent consumers of Convio’s Community resources and they're are stars of the DC Convio User's Group, too. Author: Emily Goodstein.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Her resolutions include eating local organic food, teaching her students about healthier eating options, and volunteering at a community garden. 2008 resolution New Year activist activism Photo of sign from 2003 Iraq war protest by me. I really liked this idea so thought I'd post my own: 1. What are your 2008 Activist Resolutions?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

First of all, IPDI shaped this year’s conference with community-created panels submitted and voted on by the public. Julie Germany, the Deputy Director, thoroughly understands the web, is constantly digging behind the trends, and has made some interesting changes in planning POLC08.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Communities in Schools. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn || Flickr. Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. Because 9 American children and 75 American adults die everyday from gun violence. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Flickr. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Communities in Schools. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn || Flickr. Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. Because 9 American children and 75 American adults die everyday from gun violence. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Flickr. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

A disproportionate amount of women veterans are women of color, and many of them have just recently returned from Iraq or Afghanistan and are looking to get involved with the peace moment, and with their own political development, but also with their own healing, and what it means to heal after going through the incredible trauma of war.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

For a long time, in my family, we had discussed importing a dry desert line called "Numi", in Arabic, that we drank as kids in our native Iraq. The other portion that we want to do is, we want, mostly for the city of Oakland and this community, to enhance creativity as much as we can. He still is. That is one portion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

How the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is using the web to bring back together their band of brothers and sisters. all make it harder to engage in that kind of daily interaction – and weaken our communities. The examples are there, too. The Obama campaign, for one. The aforementioned Greater Greater Washington.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

He noted that when he turned against the Iraq War he lost two-thirds of his readers, especially after admitting mistakes about his position on the war. FM , a community radio station serving the Kansas City area. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Blogs Build Transparency.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Our annual summer camps and year-round programs create hope and opportunity through socially relevant popular education, community-building, and creative expression geared toward developing solutions. We use song as a tool for organizing in communities around the country." city named to UNESCO’s prestigious Creative Cities Network.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Because it’s not just about the issue, because let’s say you’re helping with hunger relief, well, there might be 10 organizations in your community helping with hunger relief. That’s a great contribution to the community.” Then missions they believe in. And organizations they trust. That’s amazing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

Once the sponsored woman gets into the program - and she usually is one of the most socially excluded women in her own community within a conflict or post-conflict area - she is grouped with a group of 20 other women in what's called a "women's circle." That's the story of Women for Women.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

My presentation concentrated on a few case studies where certain technologies were the appropriate tools for engagement and aided work to connect, empower, and educate youth communities. Take the time to identify your goals focused on living in and inviting youth to co-create a community without knife crime. What do you think?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Over the 30 years of our organization, we’ve sent over 25 million dollars in direct aid consisting of food, medical supplies, books, and toys to Palestine, Iraq, and Lebanon. She was an engaged community activist and people kept coming to her and talking to her about what was going on in Palestine and asking her to speak out about it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Over 8 weeks this last fall, I had the privilege of working with NGOs from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, in a series of trainings that took place in Phnom Penh, Beirut and Istanbul. Past partners have included NGOs and nine truth commissions.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

and displayed in the museum.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

One handy example is the mapping and visualization of the Iraq War Logs and most recently AV referendum results in the UK. well-being of individuals and their local communities. It has a section of their website dedicated to using data for reporting and has made available information on open government data.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2007

According to UNIFEM's, "Gender Profile-Iraq-Women, War & Peace," : "[M]ore than 90 women become widows each day due to continuing violence countrywide. March 20th is the 4th anniversary of the Iraq War. March 20th is the 4th anniversary of the Iraq War. Today, March 8th, is International Women's Day. What is CODEPINK?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

They enrolled in special job skills classes designed to meet the market needs of their community. In the Voices of Genocide Prevention interview , Christine Karumba said that Honorata now works for Women for Women International training other women to, " understand their role in participating in rebuilding of their community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. So I got involved in a community effort to stop that development. And as really kind of the threads in community.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

I try to skim the major political community/multiblogs across the spectrum (Kos, MyDD, Redstate, Townhall) but I also like to hop around, find new blogs. I believe that there will be massive community blogs with thousands of participants creating material and millions of participating responders.

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Care2

AUGUST 29, 2008

I try to skim the major political community/multiblogs across the spectrum (Kos, MyDD, Redstate, Townhall) but I also like to hop around, find new blogs. I believe that there will be massive community blogs with thousands of participants creating material and millions of participating responders.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

Most weeks his podcast is a direct chat with his listeners, but this week he posted a recent speech, "Moving Forward in Iraq" that he gave at the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. In doing a little research for this post, I came across the East Side Bloggers 2008 , a blog by 10th graders at East Side Community High School.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

There was so much to do, and I felt driven by my work and really rewarded by it, and not just paid work, but also all these volunteer things and other community stuff -- feeling really involved and feeling engaged. and I was like, "Nothing, I'm happy, this is the way I am!"

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 18, 2007

Chicago Community Midwives also uses a blog as their site's home page. Journal of a Young Activist write about her travels and human rights work in Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Afghanistan, and her life as a Chicago Seminary Student. They recently posted about the Chicago Tribune article, "Behind Bars, But Still Girls".

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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