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Trainer’s Notebook: Tips for Good Openings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve just returned from a two-week trip to Guatemala hosted by Wake. Speed Networking: Since we had two-day training with 50 people, including participants, hosts, and advisers, we spent about 40 minutes on an opening designed for everyone to get to introduce themselves to each other and have a brief conversation.

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'Thanks to Public Allies, I am Now, and Forever, an Agent of Impact'

ASU Lodestar Center

Though it may have been nerve-wracking in the moment, I loved having to interview with so many organizations and having to think on my feet. Through hosting informational booths at community events and presenting to local businesses and community groups, I have shared the mission of my agency with hundreds of people.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. Anyone can become a facilitator and host a workshop in their community, and we encourage everyone to get involved. First of all, you can make a postcard!

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What I Learned About Online Donor Engagement from Fundraisers in Brasil

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I delivered a keynote for Social Good Brasil in 2012 and for a conference on volunteering hosted by Fundação Telefônica in 2014. João is also the executive director of ABCR , the professional association for fundraisers in Brasil and the host of the annual ABCR Festival. Empowerment. This was my third visit to the country.

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Quick Hit: Three Blogs to Expand Your Arts Nonprofit Universe

Museum 2.0

Grasstronaut offers long-format essays and interviews about grassroots and DIY arts spaces. What does it look like when youth invent their own arts empowerment spaces? When comic book stores host comedy shows? When comic book stores host comedy shows? Elise has opened my eyes to the world of hybrid, informal arts spaces.

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The 45 Social by Social Propositions

Amy Sample Ward

The book is full of interviews, case studies, how-tos and more. Empowerment is unconditional. Be a good host. It’s going to be called Social by Social: a practical guide to using new technologies to deliver social impact and it should be published and distributed by NESTA next month. People want control. Don’t waste that.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast. So, for example, we just did a really powerful training in the Philippines, where our regional leaders there hosted a training on a water filter. It's called the Biosand Water Filter. Britt: What drives you to do this work rather than other work?

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