Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. Not only did the piece showcase the uniqueness of this particular student, but also the opportunity to cultivate creativity through technical. awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. technological solution. Youth-Created Apps.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Volunteering 100,000 hours and using employees' skills to help nonprofits run more effectively and reach more people. For example: SAP continues to invest in their University Alliances program , which provides technology and expertise to educate students throughout the world and cultivate new IT leaders. Making Social Investments.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 25, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Patsy Kraeger, Ph.D. Welcome to Research Friday ! He established Twin Cities Rise! ,

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

Ludwig is a game aimed at educators and students alike. While the game itself does not need to be overcomplicated by making it a multiplayer game, the jury suggested creating a game where the player has opportunities to use multiple characters, with different skill sets and engaging them with problems that only the entire team can solve.

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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. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. They're walking away with skills.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. One of our first programs is our culinary school in Port-Au-Prince, which helps train aspiring chefs from Haiti and give them the skills they need to obtain jobs in Haiti’s growing tourism industry. We wanted to do something different and go beyond short term relief.

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JUNE 12, 2023

leadership, collaboration, empowerment). Scott served as the Director of the Longhorn Band at The University of Texas, where he discovered his love of fundraising while raising $25M in support for his students and the program. Invite each team member to contribute up to five values (these are single words).

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 23, 2023

For example, if your nonprofit focuses on youth empowerment, platforms like Instagram and Snapchat might be more effective than LinkedIn. Many college students or recent graduates are looking for experience and might be willing to help your nonprofit. Do your research and understand the strengths and weaknesses of each platform.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

"[T]hose of us who take pictures, even for our own personal trips, and share those pictures with friends, because we have that skill, also have an obligation to help people understand each other more completely. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

Kind of like what brought you here, what skills and things like that? And then we're also giving a ton of art skills: dance and hip hop and banner painting and we record a CD every year in a ten-day period. And what I always tell the students that I work with is, number one, stay in community. The youth are amazing manifesters.

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