Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

As part of my work at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group where grantees are designing and implementing measurement action learning projects based on the 7 steps of measurement framework over six month period. Step 6: Select your data collection tool(s).

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

Well, Chris Waters of the Nomad Cafe in Oakland not only thought about it, he made it happen. We participate in the City of Oakland's Maintain-a-Drain program, and do our part daily to remove litter from the street in our neighborhood. Get help from an agency like the Oakland Business Development Corporation (OBDC).

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Candid

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Cities including Boston, Philadelphia, Oakland, and Miami now offer access to Candid’s suite of tools at every municipal library. We’ve made curricula, facilitation support, and handouts available to all partners and empowered them to provide these in-person learning opportunities in their communities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Last week fifty people squeezed into the Marcus Bookstore in Oakland to hear young women share their stories, their rants, and their issues from a new collection of women's writing, We Got Issues! Buying fair trade coffee and family farm-raised food is casting my vote.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

I was lucky enough to attend CityCamp Oakland earlier this month to see this collaboration in action. Not so in Oakland. Mai-ling Garcia, the city of Oakland's online engagement manager, put it succinctly: "We're not here to build applications for you, we're here to build applications with you."

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

SOUL is a training center based here in Oakland. We just recently moved to downtown Oakland, and we talk about ourselves as a school to build a movement. And in terms of how I got involved with SOUL, I was actually teaching for a very brief period in the Oakland middle schools. So I’m only 26.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Finally, museums as "facilitators" of visitors' own experiences and interests. Kathleen showed lots of participatory elements in the redesigned Oakland Museum of California. Third, museums as a "place to be heard"--to share your voice, your stories, your interpretation.

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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. I wrote a few suggestions for how to figure out how you want to create change in my post, How Can You Make An Impact? including finding a small group of people to support you in your process.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

The Movement Strategy Center is a nonprofit organization in Oakland, CA that is committed to advancing the next generation of leaders for a sustainable progressive movement. Lisa Russ, the Associate Director of the Movement Strategy Center, shares the joys and challenges of being a new mom working for social change.

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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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