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5 Ways Your Grantees Can Use Storytelling to Prove Impact—and How You Can Help

sgEngage

Instruct your grantees to not just focus on the end result, but also the process leading to that result. Elevate Diverse Voices: Featuring stories from individuals of various backgrounds, age groups, and demographics showcase the organization’s ability to reach and positively affect a diverse community. It’s about the journey.

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How To Put Social Fundraising On Steroids: Community Giving Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They set up a c ommunity champions campaign on Razoo and asked their champions to commit to raising $500 each and that the money would be matched by the NTEN board.

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What is An Open Community?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’m taking part in the virtual book tour Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer are doing to explore concepts from Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. I read an early draft of the book and think it is a very important idea for those of us in the nonprofit community embrace.

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The J. M. Barrie Model for Museum Voice

Museum 2.0

Barrie gives lovely instructions on how to close your eyes, squeeze tight, and conjure the Mermaid's Lagoon. The key is not to write the story/label/instructions. Granted, maybe all of those stories aren't fit for the label, but that urge to share, to tell the stories that matter, NEEDS to get communicated. A ticking crocodile?

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, I have to prepare some instruction in a completely different context, get organized to visit Sharing Foundation projects, pack T-shirts, AND finish the massives amount of work before I go. While I was on Facebook, I checked out my Razoo votes for speed granting. So, I starting worrying about the Internet connection in Cambodia.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania.

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Nonprofits, Libraries, and the California Teleconnect Fund

Tech Soup

Phone Service : Voice over IP (VoIP) and PBX service and seats, and traditional plain old telephone service (POTS) lines. If you want your school or library to learn more about E-rate discounts, there are ongoing training sessions on the topic on the K12 High Speed Network and application instructions on the US Deptartment of Education site.