Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teach “green hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. More than a hundred hand-selected volunteers are highly trained in interview techniques, media relations and public speaking to become Greenpeace spokespeople. They offer direction, supervision and make outings fun.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 26, 2024

A Boston University student told Input that photo dumps are a “personal scrapbook,” saying, “posting what I want takes stress and pressure out of posting on social media.” This TikTok of staff naming sea otter facts and Reel on training a baby fish are great examples. Sure, it’s a curated post, but it’s meant to look low-effort.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2012

in schools, libraries, local governments, and nonprofits, it was tough to choose just one to profile this week, but I chose YouthBuild Boston because of my fondness for green tech. They even use TechSoup Microsoft software donations to rehab used computers for their training labs. The Mission of After School Programs.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

NDHC employs these materials to train architecture graduate students. The students learn to utilize the software to demonstrate need in housing community development. This article was written by Jim Lynch, director of green technology, TechSoup. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

NDHC employs these materials to train architecture graduate students. The students learn to utilize the software to demonstrate need in housing community development. This article was written by Jim Lynch, director of green technology, TechSoup. spanhidden.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2013

But if the NGO’s goal is to create a sustainable new stove program that can be run by local people, create jobs and grow, the NGO will need to include training and teachers that can go beyond building stoves. Why train people to fail? Seeds for a Future seems to already be creating a sustainable impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

We selected Kimbia as our new technology partner in January, launched our new website in July and began an intensive training schedule (webinars, live training, phone and email support) with organizations to get them ready on the new GiveMN.org for Give to the Max Day. Can you share a little bit about how you managed this change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The project is a hyperlocal source of information about living green–powered by network of environmental activists, nonprofits, and grassroots organizations. It celebrates the natural beauty of the area while educating the community about a green life style. Cara talked about the network formation phase of the project.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

Litmos lets you assign courses to specific teams or individuals in your organization, for ongoing training and development. Little Green Light. Little Green Light is a cloud-based donor management system designed for nonprofits. Little Green Light is a cloud-based donor management system designed for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Students develop and run a business, gain confidence, academic support, and mentorship. Beyond 12 is developing the next generation of MyCoach, a mobile app that helps low-income students navigate the path to college and stay on track once they arrive, significantly enhancing graduation rates.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

When librarian Dianne Connery came to the library a few years ago, she found a classic small town library situated in a converted post office building with the requisite institutional green paint job. Purchasing Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design through TechSoup made it possible to offer training in Photoshop and Premier Pro.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Veterans Organic Garden is a visionary job training and rehabilitation program for disabled veterans developed by Lovay Wallace-Singleton. The project provides paid internships and organic gardening job skills training for unemployed and low-income veterans, as well as rehabilitation therapy through gardening. Image 3: Braided River.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

They provide people with disabilities with training in IT skills useful for employment. This program provides IT technical support training to clients and revenues to the larger program. Computer Technologies Program has an employment placement rate of 80% and has served as the model for technical training programs.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

How Green Is Refurbished IT Equipment? The Connect 2 Compete program will also supply free training on how to use computers via Best Buy’s Geek Squad , Microsoft, and other providers. Computers For Youth will supply educational resources for low-income students. Using the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

Where together with their partner, Net Impact , EDF embeds trained MBA students who identify energy efficiency improvements that can cut costs and reduce emissions. As David Witzel observed during our conversation, "A problem-solving network is the only way we scale rapidly and effect change with limited resources."

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The Adobe Foundation invests nearly US$7 million per year in the Adobe Youth Voices program, primarily through training, educational resources, and grants. students with a global audience. The Adobe Foundation believes in the power of sharing the youth-generated media and perspectives of Adobe Youth Voices.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 4, 2008

Last week I had the pleasure of facilitating a career counseling session for a group of Stanford students who were spending their "alternative spring break" meeting with social entrepreneurs in the Bay Area. Photo: The fabu students who participated in the Social Entrepreneurship in the Bay Area spring break (and me).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. Volunteer training - volunteer would design small projects and implement them in the communtiy - mental health care in the students. The volunteers were high school students. It is why they wanted to blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

The Clean Energy Service Corps will create new service opportunities to fight global warming, find new sources of clean energy, create energy independence and create green jobs. 5,000 students would be federally funded for 4 years of school in exchange for 5 years of public service. Clinton is also working on a proposal with Sen.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

They were normal kids, except they lived in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood of Chicago, where the role models and life experiences were anything but what normal kids in most parts of America grow up with. The Cabrini Green neighborhood has a high concentration of poverty, many people living on welfare, and strong street gang involvement.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

If you are a college student, or someone in career transition, who wants to find work that fulfills your big vision for a better world, I have a few words of advice, and some books to recommend. A Few Book Suggestions: Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , a publication of Echoing Green. by Steve Chase of the Well-Trained Activist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

s democracy - it was just about showing the beauty of her country, sharing her experiences in school, and learning from her peers and fellow students. The woman wearing the green t-shirt played the role of my daughter. Heng Chantheng , a master trainer and Linux Training Coordinator. Photo by Thomas Wanhaff.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

Additionally, there has been a lot of rhetoric on the part of the automakers regarding the greenness of their operations, when in fact what we are seeing is a lot of green-washing. They recognize that green is very vogue right now. They recognize that citizens are extremely concerned about global warming.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

It is a collaboration between American students and residents of Sikoro, a dusty periurban town of 65,000 people outside the capital city of Bamako, Mali. Some funding is exterior, but we are and will remain a low-budget organization, relying on the volunteerism of American students and Malian citizens. We can use any help we can get!

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

Did you hit the green button? So they don’t put the procedures in place, they don’t get the necessary training, and they don’t gain the experience to effectively implement a major donor program. I’m sure you’ve seen other trainings, webinars what, about gathering your metrics. Valerie: Okay.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Associate Professor, ASU School of Community Resources & Development This post is about a bad dog and the role that a class of ASU students is playing in its quest for redemption. Where do donors get trained to think that investment in administration and fundraising is bad? posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D. Well, lots of places.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

I talked to Chris Messina of Citizen Agency and Ivan Storck of SustainableMarketing.com about their green coworking space in San Francisco, Citizen Space for the Big Vision Podcast and have posted a transcript of the interview below. Britt Bravo: What is coworking, and how can you make it green? You can even save your money.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You can watch the video below to see a moving speech from 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, who founded the Fridays for Future movement that has seen hundreds of thousands of students striking from school across the world. Try a green energy supplier. It’s easy to switch to 100% green energy. Conserve your water.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. Photography students use Flickr to post, organize, share, and critique their colleagues?????? guru-in-training. Research to incorporate in instructional materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Linda Robinson, Gateway Green (Board Chair). Gateway Green is a project in Portland to turn a stretch of unused land into a multi-use bike park. The Gateway Green team ran a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo , seeking $100,000 to begin work on the park.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. Right now he gets his green fix by tending to an aquarium and houseplants.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You can watch the video below to see a moving speech from 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, who founded the Fridays for Future movement that has seen hundreds of thousands of students striking from school across the world. Try a green energy supplier. It’s easy to switch to 100% green energy. Conserve your water.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

It’s like I get chest pains when I hear a client say to me, “I’m giving all of our board members access to the database, and they’re going to go in and enter donor data,” or, “I’m having one of these volunteers or a high school student come in and enter donor data.” They go through a training.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

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. We do that through a model of living room circles, circles in cafes, and circles in yoga studios It's a place for people to actually plug in and get trained to be leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

These were (as captured by blogger Marcia Stephanek ): Open Green Map , offered up by Holly Ross, helps communities map their eco-friendly spots, whether it's a bike rack or a solar-heated apartment complex or a public herb garden. Seattle Free School , suggested by Amy Sample Ward, uses social media to organize classes and teach students.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Golf Tournament Bring together avid golfers and local philanthropists—in many cases, they’re one and the same—for a day on the greens. Classes Nonprofit organizations often offer classes that cover a wide array of topics, from literacy and language skills to financial literacy and job training.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

And so if we helped small farmers and the rural poor get access to land and credit and training and other resources, and get access to markets, they in fact could grow their own way out of poverty as it were. Students, people in churches, people in environmental groups who have embraced Fair Trade as a positive model of change.

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