Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our free events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. The world is better when nonprofits can better tell their story. Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin: How to Tell Your Nonprofit Story with Spark.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Cause Camp, presented by Nonprofit Hub and Do More Good , has been nationally recognized by Forbes as a “must-attend” for the nonprofit sector. He is constantly searching for new opportunities clients can leverage to achieve differentiation, develop competitive advantages, and better communicate their brand story.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 4, 2021

We’re in the business of self-empowerment and helping people find that through employment. So we’re uniquely positioned to address workforce development during this time that it’ so highly relevant across the nation. Which brings me to the second common misconception: that we’re in the business of selling used goods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Culture of Agile: There is empowerment of people to interact and collaborate that allows them to adapt and respond to a changing environment. His views on the philanthropic world have appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , USA Today , The Los Angeles Times , and on National Public Radio.

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Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2012

is located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, which is the capitol of the Cherokee Nation. The Cherokee Nation is the largest part of the Cherokee Tribe, spanning 14 counties in the northeastern part of Oklahoma. Because they are national programs, Heather has to keep track of a traveling staff with complex scheduling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. and one of the most highly anticipated cultural events in the nation. Looking forward to hearing the campfire stories from those participating in this fundraising day on November 9th!

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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. Data''s New Clothes Speaker: Greg Schneider, Information Systems Director, National Institute on Money in State Politics.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The Vermont Women’s Fund focuses their grantmaking on supporting women and girls on pathways to economic well-being, including career development, an area highlighted by the research of their initiative, Change The Story. They support activities and movements that are global or national in scope. Areas served: Vermont. Mary’s Pence.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

The Vermont Women’s Fund focuses their grantmaking on supporting women and girls on pathways to economic well-being, including career development, an area highlighted by the research of their initiative, Change The Story. They support activities and movements that are global or national in scope. Areas served: Vermont. Mary’s Pence.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

From our meetings with non-profits and national surveys, there is broad variation in how non-profits organizations are faring, but we can generalize them into three buckets. Companies like First West Credit Union are focusing on amplifying these employee acts of kindness by telling their stories.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Employees now have more access to stress management resources and empowerment to seek the support they need on an individual level. It’s challenging to hear their stories but knowing that we have a safe space to talk, cry, laugh, and connect with one another keeps us encouraged. Peers for Progress National Peer Support Groups.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. That is not a particularly radical belief among librarians, but I hope to make you believe even more in the power of books.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

So if you want to join us in sharing stories and opportunities to become of, by, and for your community, please consider joining that email list today. As we learn more from the First Wave and build the Change Network, we'll write about it on the OF/BY/FOR ALL website.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. In the midst of a pivotal moment in patient engagement and empowerment, our microphone has been turned off. How can you have a revolution if no one shows up?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

This is more of a transcript than a recap, more of what I hope can be a refresher or stimulator for follow up blogs than simply the whole story itself. annanten : social media is here to help you empower your followers with a story to create powerful activists for your cause. realize_ink : Q3: empowerment & ownership.

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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. Five years later, project director Dr. Piotr Bienkowski's final report for Our Museum tells a different story. This made the work more urgent, fragile. and realistic.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2023

Media – Pitch stories to local newspapers and news channels about the impact volunteers make at your nonprofit and include that you’re looking for great volunteers. Some recognizable days of service are National Volunteer Week, Global Youth Service Day, Martin Luther King Jr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Social and Nonprofits ROI: Case Study Slam submitted by Beth Kanter Using a poetry slam format, each panelist will present a five-minute poem or story about how their organization has successfully implemented a social media strategy experiment and how they considered the ROI. The Mobile Web for Good submitted by Katrin Verclas.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 8, 2022

event held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, we presented the first adidas x Parley prototype: a shoe made with plastic waste collected in the Maldives, and illegal fishing nets recovered from the Southern Ocean by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society during their record-breaking campaign to thwart notorious toothfish poachers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

There is not one single story. It is only through time and interactions that we come to see and understand the whole story and connect with one another to make greater social impact. The Aspen Institute fellowship gave me the opportunity to learn the whole story.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

NAACP + NAACP Legal Defense Fund —The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization formed as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. The activities, or collections, have gathered objects, stories, videos and thinking questions all in one place. Attend Events

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ).

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

There is not one single story. It is only through time and interactions that we come to see and understand the whole story and connect with one another to make greater social impact. The Aspen Institute fellowship gave me the opportunity to learn the whole story.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This piece examines seven familiar challenges, shares suggested solutions, and highlights the stories of nonprofits who are using Salesforce to tackle many of these challenges. National Citizen Service (NCS) is the flagship youth empowerment programme for 16- and 17-year-olds in England and Northern Ireland.

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Qgiv

JUNE 12, 2023

leadership, collaboration, empowerment). For an engaging story about the process of writing a mission statement, read the chapter “Mission: Every Ship Needs a Compass” in Neverboss: Great Leadership by Letting Go, Kevin Crenshaw (2017 Priacta, Inc.) Invite each team member to contribute up to five values (these are single words).

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work. Participate in workshops, lead a workshop.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 2, 2018

MeToo was meant to be a movement that provides “empowerment through empathy” to survivors of sexual abuse, assault, exploitation and harassment, especially those in underprivileged communities. Each of their stories was then illustrated on used life jackets, taken from the beaches of Greece where refugees arrive. Love Has No Labels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In the book, the authors tell the story of Sameer Bhatia, a young Silicon Valley entrepreneur who diagnosed with leukemia. The odds were improved with a donor of his ethnicity, but there were not many South Asians in the national bone-marrow database. Tell your story. Employ empowerment marketing. Act, then think.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

While I faced a difficult decision culling winners from the forty focused initiatives described in the entries, I selected the following based on their innovative and courageous approaches to a variety of social issues, from new types of housing for the underserved, to animal welfare, to women’s empowerment. We’re the Safe America Foundation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Users are encouraged to find volunteer opportunities, and to post stories about their volunteer experiences on the site. There are also tons of nonprofit organizations, like Streetside Stories (where the book cover image above is from), that work during the school day, and after school to supplement the schools' curriculum.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

What inspired that, and what are some favorite stories from recent trips? The essence of Dining for Women is connection, education, and self-empowerment. and get a sense of Dining for Women as a national organization. You've also added a travel program. The travel program was a natural extension of those three things.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

Youth Empowerment with Social Media. If you are looking for more examples about social media and communications technologies applied to youth empowerment, here are some additional links/groups to check out: [link] (social media used as outreach about teen dating violence). Share your story - we’d love to hear it!

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. I'll tell you a story about one instance in which the women were using poetry, actually. I'll tell you a story about one instance in which the women were using poetry, actually. And, their weapon is poetry.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

She utilizes her national platform to bring awareness to the HIV/AIDS crisis. It could be the environment, it could be educational issues, political issues, international, national. I know in my heart I cannot get fixated on the story, I have to experience the soul. It really didn't matter to us. Their parents are my teachers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. Her story is so compelling, I’ve already written a blog post about this incredible woman, entitled Rockstar Nairobi Social Entrepreneur. Hopefully, it will give you a flavor of why this travel is worth it to me and Benetech! Enough said!

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

A truly remarkably story of very every day mothers and daughters in Liberia who were just so sick of the civil war between Charles Taylor, and then the rebels in Liberia, being funded with Sierra Leone diamonds essentially, that they mobilized an entire community of women around peace.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

So, last spring Ella Baker Center, to launch its new program Reclaim the Future, took a big role in the United Nations World Environment Day Conference that was happening here in San Francisco. So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist. Look at us, how creative we are. So, that's one of the things.

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