Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 14, 2009

Did you know that Congress passed the King Holiday and Service Act in 1994 making it a national day of volunteer service? To promote and facilitate Americans being of service, the Obama team has launched usaservice.org. Living Your Best Life through the Journey of Service by Dr. Cheryl L. Dorsey, the President of Echoing Green.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 24, 2006

Not a very peaceful life for a Nobel Peace Prize winner. It was at that time that she started the Green Belt Movement , which facilitated women planting trees in their communities to combat deforestation, soil erosion and lack of water. Wangari Maathai, Unbowed. She has been in jail four times and beaten on the head twice.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

Technology innovation is also driven by government and national security concerns, and surveillance technology is increasingly used to monitor citizens, leading to the “fracture” of the World Wide Web as we know it and to decreased entrepreneurship. Green technology spurs mobile payments development in Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Note from Beth: As a trainer and someone who teachers other trainers, I’ve been obsessed with improving my facilitation skills and written a lot about it on this blog. I’m always up for a conversation with other facilitators about shop talk and getting tips for improving my practice. Analytical? Compassionate?

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2021

This decade also saw the Black Power Movement, American Indian Movement, a further push for women’s rights , rights of farmworkers, and the Green Power Movement. 2000 – The United National Global Compact is launched. A nti-war wasn’t the only movement that took place in the 1960s. Billion. . .

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Early in the life of this blog, I stumbled into a taxonomy of how social platforms work that I call the hierarchy of participation. Every few feet on the bench, there is a small box about the size of a lightswitch with two buttons on it, one red and one green. Green indicates yes, red, no. Why do you oppose flag-burning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Supporting these visionary leaders, raising the profile of their work and facilitating collaborations and sharing has allowed many to pursue a life of changemaking, scaling their impact and, in many instances, affecting national policy and changing the lives of thousands in their communities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

The Engage Network is a nonprofit social venture that facilitates the power of small community groups to create social change. inspired by Julia Butterfly Hill's tree-sit, Off the Mat Into the World , founded by yoga teacher Seane Corn, and Green for All , founded by Van Jones. For folks who don't know, what is The Engage Network?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

According to the Corporation for National and Community Service , volunteering also has health benefits. Skills: SCORE (Counselors to America's Small Business) facilitates volunteer mentors' giving advice to aspiring entrepreneurs. Write a thank you note to someone who helped you or made a difference in your life. Give blood.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

We had women who had expertise in community organizing, micro-finance, facilitation and leadership development. My whole life has just been about moving towards how can what I do uplift the lives of the people around me, and nature itself. These kinds of concepts are so not real, and so not what Women's Earth Alliance is about.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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