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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. The plan for the next year is: Train and develop 12 leaders from the MENA region (4 Strategic Advisors, 4 Country Directors/Master Trainers and 4 Training Coordinators) = In-Country Leadership Teams.

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Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Echoing Green, Jobs for Change, Julia Cameron and 29 Gifts

Have Fun - Do Good

In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine. We Inspire Grant : One year of creative services to one U.S.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. Billy Bicket got the first Net Tuesdays going in San Francisco. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. The first one was started in 1991 by a San Francisco educator, Dan Sudran, in his garage. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand.

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Lean Impact Series: 10 Changemakers Using Lean Startup Methods For Greater Social Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To help us learn more about how to apply Lean Start Up ideas to nonprofit causes and organizations, Meg Rulli is the Social Media Director for Lean Impact and her colleagues will be contributing a regular blog post covering different aspects of the Lean Impact practices. Patrice Martin, IDEO.org (Co-Lead & Creative Director).

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[VIDEO] First Steps to Nonprofit Strategic Planning, Now!

Bloomerang

Joining us from beautiful San Francisco, Dr. Renee Rubin Ross. I identify as a white consultant, San Francisco Bay Area native, as Steven said. But there are some benefits, some real clear benefits of inclusive participatory strategic planning. La Cocina is a San Francisco based nonprofit.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Join the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits and Nonprofits Assistance Fund for this fifth annual day-long conference will offer insights, strategies and tools for staff and board members looking at your organization’s financial sustainability from diverse perspectives – from strategy and oversight to implementation and evaluation. Associations.

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