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. candidate at University of Pittsburgh, demonstrated FracTracker , an app that maps impacts of oil and gas extraction sites through crowdsourcing.

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San Francisco Social Demonstration Images 36

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We worked with C3ers at the kickoff workshop to map the issues and communities of greatest interest and connection. This map formed the basis for topic definition for subsequent meetings. Our topics are broad, including Creative Spaces, Youth Empowerment, and Economic Opportunity.

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Community Story Museum Map 39

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

These could done by one person or could be shared if mapped out in advance. Later, these questions were organized into categories so we had a concept map of issues people wanted to explore and these categories were also used in different activities. The lead is also in charge of the pivot and communicating that to other facilitators.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

After we create a shared network based on individual’s knowledge and skills, we move to the organizational network maps. Participants create a poster of their networks, view other the network maps of others, and then do a debrief. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Having this network map on the wall during the whole training, let us as the trainers acknowledge the expertise and knowledge in the room. This exercise is very useful because after participants create their maps, they’re taped on the wall, and participants give feedback using sticky notes.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2011

Just like any real world activist, motivation is triggered by empowerment and shut down with arrogance. Map your network to find out where you need improvements and stronger network ties and decide how to improve them. By Retweeting their content when it is appropriate, you validate them as important and increase their influence.

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Twitter Community Profit Organization 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I’ve also done this with groups of organizations who have collectively created their network maps on the wall. You get people to line up in the room as to whether they agree or disagree on a provocative statement related to the content – and then interview people. Then the group draws the connections.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

CauseVox

MARCH 13, 2024

Rooted in values such as equity, collaboration, resiliency, empowerment, and community, Spur Local actively promotes visibility, stimulates discussions, and serves as a catalyst for positive change in the region. Despite their simplicity, these pages included an events calendar and interactive map.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I love this stuff because, to me, data done right is empowerment. It's all about mapping data to business needs to make better decisions. Though my high school calculus class actually made me break out in hives -- it was the most stressful experience of my life -- I adore data. I want to eat statistics for dinner.

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Business Gartner Data NTEN 54

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Images of Empowerment. To address this need, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, in partnership with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Getty Images, created Images of Empowerment. Images of Empowerment was created in 2015 and was extended in 2018. Grand Challenges Awards Repository.

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Platform Foundation Examples Digital 56

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. We mapped out all the official and unofficial shetlers and start connecting with people on the ground there.

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Puerto Rico Haiti Guatemala Hawaii 75

Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" Kids on probation, kids struggling with addiction, kids whose lives have detoured off every map to a brighter tomorrow. Read more online and buy your own copy today. Doron believes in them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Accessing sustainable food is easier with for mobile access to databases (Seafood Watch), delivery of hyper local foods (Spud.com), online links for farmers and buyers (Roots of Change), and maps of food grown in your neighborhood (Forage Oakland). Learn how shortcodes, custom social networks, and mashups are delicious. With snacks!

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Comment Open Source Social Media Drupal 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

“Anyone who works for the State Department knows that they work for women and for the advancement and empowerment of women,” said Alec Ross , Secretary Clinton’s Special Advisor for Innovation, with pride at the opening of TechCamp Tel Aviv. TechCamp: Empowering women through technology - guest post by Ma’ayan Alexander.

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Technology Empowerment Problem 109

NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Peter Campbell, IT Director at Earthjustice, dove deeper into IT performance and how to prioritize your goals through balanced scorecards, business process mapping, SWOT analyses, and technology planning. Ask good questions. So what can we do? Get ahead of the change. Create context by tying change to mission. Be a clear change leader.

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Technology Management Cisco NTEN 60

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

The first is our International Strategy Meetings, where we convene our founding women from 26 different countries, who come together and really examine what the local issues are, what are the global trends, what is the work that they can do in partnership, and they really map out their plan and their goals and their work for the coming year.

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Green Global Action Network 40

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

" An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. Don't rely on maps, charts, or graphs because that's what you're familiar with; instead, use the best medium or format or organizing principle to express the idea best. Put in your zip code and get a map.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

" An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. Don't rely on maps, charts, or graphs because that's what you're familiar with; instead, use the best medium or format or organizing principle to express the idea best. Put in your zip code and get a map.

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Change Lebanon Map China 36

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Nonprofit InfoSec - Spencer Bolles Compliance awareness (PCI, HIPAA, FERPA) tools for measuring risk management and mapping of resources to meet organizational needs. Design solutions for collaboration, empowerment, global views, and self awareness. The goal: greater open rates. Collecting data on all user learning activity.

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Ideas North Carolina Map Children 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

The next step is for these apps to add greater purpose by encouraging more meaningful checkins and offering corresponding badges and stamps, thus mapping the cause universe. Behind the scenes, though, we’ll see massive new sets of data available to campaigns for targeting, empowerment, and optimization.

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Change Disaster Green Los Angeles 108