Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

By profiling individuals and organizations who enact various visions of utopia, Oakland's Britt Bravo expresses her own hope for a better world. Through Big Vision , she broadcasts interviews with many of the East Bay's most successful activists for social change.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

In 2014, the Alameda County Community Food Bank of Oakland, California raised over $85,000 across 300 donors, with the help of a strong campaign that incorporated a multi-channel approach (with email and social media, of course), a consistent brand image and visuals, and awesome corporate gift-matching. What Your Nonprofit Can Do.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

Reem Rahim is the Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing of the Oakland-based green business Numi Tea. My brother and I started Numi about seven years ago, from here in Oakland, California, and we started in my small apartment up the street, near Piedmont Avenue. Britt: Oakland needs more businesses like Numi.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

featuring me (as well as the fabulous Lori Fogarty of the Oakland Museum of California). You will make everyone who reads this blog's experience better by sharing your brilliant ideas, and you'll give a great gift to one curly-haired almost-birthday girl. On Wednesday, it's my birthday. Thanks in advance! interview.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

You can download a 29 Day Giving Calendar and gift cards on the 29 Day Giving Challenge social network. I work with a medicine woman from Oakland. I called her to complain, and she gave me a prescription that day to give away 29 gifts in 29 days, as a way of getting out of myself. The gifts can be material things.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2006

I met Bryant, who created all the recipes for the book, just last week at a fundraiser for the Oakland-based food justice nonprofit, People's Grocery. I've already given this book as a gift to several people because her persistence, and her focus on solutions are skills we can all cultivate to create positive change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 13, 2008

It's interesting, a man from Oakland is doing a documentary on street recyclers, the people who go around and pick up recycling from all of our bins, and that's how they make their living. [laughs] I love that that is one of the most popular questions. And, "Why did you do it?" Those are basically the top four.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

I watched many visitors hunt down favorites or pieces with which they had personal connections to share, like little private gifts, with others. This is what happened at the Oakland Museum of California, which used its very successful co-creative Days of the Dead project as a kind of template for participatory redesign.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Contributing personal experience is less about discussion and more about gifts --gifts our visitors give to us in the form of their stories and observations. These gifts may be emotional, analytical, even activist. This week, we look at the second section, Contributing Personal Experiences. What makes this section distinct?

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Thanks to custom development and integration with Salesforce , the site instantly reflects every gift ICA receives! Let’s walk through three ways that the Animal League website streamlines the donation process and ensures that supporters follow through with their gifts: Cohesive branding. Recurring gift option.

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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. It's amazing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

To start off, I asked Van to talk about the Ella Baker Center's Reclaim the Future program and how Oakland could become a model green city. We say, one way to do that is to kind of focus on Oakland, and make sure that there are people who are being trained, who are peered, to be a part of this new green economy right here in Oakland.

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