Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 22, 2007

Just got some information on this cool program: The Hadley School for the Blind has launched an innovative program of English language learning and empowerment which spans the Pacific Ocean. Some particularly brave students even sing songs for the enjoyment of the group. Hadley's international branch is located in Fuzhou, China.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The lead facilitator tasks might include: introducing a section or activity and why it important, offering instructions on how to complete the activity, facilitating full group instruction, and offering a synthesis of the discussion. Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory. Orienting the Group.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

." ~ Caroline Lovell, Founder, Traveling Postcards Traveling Postcards facilitates the creation of handmade art postcards that are hand delivered all over the world to bringing awareness and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence, or repression.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

100% of participants implement an action learning project that uses measurement to help improve their practice, share insights with peers, and identify opportunities to amplify each other’s voices through social media. Peer Synergy is also important — and for the next six months we will have two tracks for the peer groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

change slideshare group name. change the name of the google group. Nonprofit Social Media Empowerment Guide. NpTech Social Media Empowerment Guide. Empowered MEdia MEdia Empowered Empowered by Media SMEG (social media empowerment guide). MEdia EmpoWErement. Make the changes: logo. get domain name.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

We’re bringing that honest conversation right to you with some new voices with a passion for nonprofit culture and employee wellness. . Employees now have more access to stress management resources and empowerment to seek the support they need on an individual level. Peers for Progress National Peer Support Groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The class typically erupts in a cacophony of voices, as it did that first time he told students to talk to each other because he couldn’t figure out what else to do. Spectra Gram: This is a full group exercise that you can use to bring out ideas or different views on the topic. Then ask the pairs to find another pair and share.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

The city's OpenData goals are to improve city services for residents and businesses, produce jobs, enhance economic opportunities, and increase resident engagement and empowerment. Image 3: Environmental Working Group. The site features information for developers, including tips for building apps and a guide for getting started.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing. Getting New Voices in Your Head The essential first step to this "community first" process is identifying communities of interest and learning about their assets, needs, and interests.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

Additionally, many of the apps were built using Twilio.org's SMS and voice APIs. She also wanted to be able to keep contact information among her volunteers anonymous and disallow "reply alls" to the group text. The group leader can then send messages to the full group by way of a web app.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2016

However, if you don’t find your own managerial leader voice, you will be perceived as inauthentic to the people you lead. Currently, they are a breath of fresh air and much more trusting of all members in our group, who are adults with a lot of knowledge and experience. It feels less formal. What makes you believe this?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

It is an advocacy group that will be “a strong voice in determining how mobile develops to best meet the needs of mission awareness, donor acquisition, engagement, and payments.” In the midst of a pivotal moment in patient engagement and empowerment, our microphone has been turned off.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

It is a group of people connected by something shared. HOW (slides 24-42) There are three “tracks” to our theory of change: individual empowerment, social bonding, and social bridging. Let’s start with empowerment. We seek to empower our visitors to raise their own civic and creative voices. But it is so, so delicate.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Transcending "Social:" Visibility and Empowerment In An Uber-Mega-Meta Self-Conscious Age Speaker: Jianda Johnson, Business and Resource Development Specialist, Guadalupe Montessori School. American teens still send more SMS than any other type of message, and send more SMS than any other age group.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

And in several cases, the projects constituted "empowerment lite" for participants rather than true collaboration, co-creation, or transformation. Critical friends are trusted outside observers who may raise tough questions and uncomfortable truths that a collaborating community group cannot or will not share.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

But anybody who's seen Cloverfield or I Am Legend knows what happens when a mass of people tries to cross a bridge to escape a bad situation: a bottleneck forms, infighting destroys group solidarity, and then something unforeseen destroys the bridge. (Or, And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? But do you know this?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2015

In turn, we always say ‘thank you’ for their time and contribution in a variety of meaningful ways, whether through a VIP experience, influence, empowerment, recognition, or tangible reward. Make it valuable and an exclusive group your supporters want to be a part of. Make the program fun, creative, and compelling.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

The other big challenge is logistics… I spend inordinate amounts of time filling out IRS forms, transcribing focus groups, writing grants, writing emails to volunteers, talking to lawyers about liability, etc. Our committee gets the chance to assert the community’s rights, and see that it has an effective voice.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety. They use netball as a way to provide safe spaces for development and visibility of their target population.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. For the past 5 or 6 years we've had a small but steady group of supporters who are primarily invested in our empowerment projects. It really showcases our efforts moving from beyond just relief to empowerment. Our culinary school is just one example.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

We have a talented group of entrepreneurs that we work with all the way from Numi Organic Tea to Blue Bottle Coffee, to Premier Organics, and many others in different sectors. Too often we give the resources to the communities that have the loudest voice. It's really creating that voice, and I think we can facilitate that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

AD: I think it is important to start by saying that the Women of Color Resource Center came out of a lot of political thinking and activism of the late '60s and '70s, when women of color really felt that it was important that their voices be heard in a movement that was largely dominated by men, and also white women and white allies.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

Our group enjoyed several hours of lively, interactive conversation and I walked away with some interesting ideas about how MIM might test some international appeals or campaigns. Rouer and Mr. Thibault encouraged the group to think creatively when it comes to working together to construct lasting relationships.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

Our group enjoyed several hours of lively, interactive conversation and I walked away with some interesting ideas about how MIM might test some international appeals or campaigns. Rouer and Mr. Thibault encouraged the group to think creatively when it comes to working together to construct lasting relationships.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

We wanted to encourage them to find their voice, and to become leaders in their own right in their own local community. How do you develop skills so that you can effectively use your voice in fund raising, so that you don't feel like you are asking for a favor? We talk about how to do consensus training in groups.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

I got involved in some of the anti-globalization work at that time and my group, Art and Revolution, was doing a lot of education and outreach through dance and giant puppets and theater and doing a lot of tours to mobilize people to come to Seattle. There's an amazing group of articles in there. Alli: A great question.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. They were a group of illiterate women who dictated their requests to a priest in the village, who then hand wrote the request. Those are some of the ways in which we try to make those decisions.

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