Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Image from Gasland The Movie. They also created a website that serves up clips from the film, plus a wealth of supporting information backing up the provocative claims contained in the movie and myriad ways for citizens to get involved in their own communities. But that is only the jumping off point for the inquiry.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. Here are some great examples that are pretty easy to acquire: Fishing equipment Boating items like life jackets Outdoor cooler Camping equipment and sleeping bags Outdoor camping cookware Good hiking sneakers or boots National Parks pass.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In any case, when I was a kid, growing up on Long Island, the newly opened Hall of Gems and Minerals at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) was like a mysterious dark cave for my sister and I to explore, ever on a hunt for gems. Also, familiarity with game design techniques, and tools, and exercises, and processes.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 20, 2018

Whether it comes in the form of a book, a comic, a movie or a video game, we all have stories that we like and ones that we decidedly dislike. But even when the stories we love aren’t rooted in fact or based on history, we connect to them on a real, human level. Some of our favorite stories are fiction, and some of them are nonfiction.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Amazingly enough, it wasn’t the publishers who fought against the treaty; the publishing industry has a long history of supporting access for the blind, as long as their interests are respected. Even though their movies and patents were not covered by the treaty draft, they were concerned the Treaty might be a bad precedent for them.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 14, 2014

We know it and we love it, but few of us knew that the 1978 National Lampoon hit Animal House could give us such serious insight into the world of nonprofit and higher education engagement. “Seven Years of College Down the Drain.”. It’s all about knowing your unique audience, your culture, and making that culture accessible.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Her campaign is a combination of reviewing books and movies about Darfur on her blog, as well as contributing money to organizations like the International Rescue Committee for the books she reads, and the posts she writes. It might be an interesting twist to add to NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month).

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Neon CRM

JUNE 8, 2023

To help us all celebrate Pride Month 2023, Neon One’s employee resource group for LGBTQIA+ individuals, Neon Pride, has put together a list of LGBTQIA+ books, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and songs as a fun and enlightening media guide for June and beyond. It’s a time for celebration, for awareness, for community, and for action.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 14, 2014

We know it and we love it, but few of us knew that the 1978 National Lampoon hit Animal House could give us such serious insight into the world of nonprofit and higher education engagement. “Seven Years of College Down the Drain.”. It’s all about knowing your unique audience, your culture, and making that culture accessible.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

To find professionals who are interested in sharing their time and skills with your organization, reach out to local chapters of professional organizations like the National Association of Realtors or the National Association of Female Executives. Send out social media blasts. Newspapers, magazines, and blogs focus on storytelling.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 11, 2009

You know how Ira Glass recently broadcast his radio show This American Life live to movie theaters across North America? I'm doing a workshop with the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History which includes a public lecture on "the multi-platform museum" on May 18 at 3pm ET (GMT -5).

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

NAACP + NAACP Legal Defense Fund —The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization formed as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. TV Shows + Movies: The 13th (Documentary) . Moonlight (Movie). Mudbound (Movie). Find yours here. Attend Events

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Key Points: The violence in Darfur is part of a history of violence in all of the Sudan. The solution to the violence in Darfur is to unseat the National Congress Party (NCP) though elections by the Sudanese people. The movie opens Friday, November 2nd in LA and NYC , and in more cities in the following weeks.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

” You can auction off items like: At-home workout equipment Virtual personal training sessions Coupons to virtual exercise classes Memberships to National Parks or other hiking trails. These fun night activities could include: Dinner and a movie Concert tickets Restaurant or bar gift card Wine tasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2016

The Girl Scouts have been committed to advancing STEM education for girls throughout its history, dating back more than 100 years. Action movies? Maybe you think about history, and how nukes are a bygone issue. Don’t miss this special offer for Beth’s Blog readers: Get 20% off passes with the code beth20 !

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

If we post on Facebook to remind our supporters it’s National Pancake Day, then it seems insensitive (for example) to not remember Hanukkah. By expanding out from the homogeneous group we also demonstrate acts of leadership within that more numerous portion of the local and national population. Bonfire Night.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

They use hashtags impeccably and they get involved in current events such as Black History Month, and National Love Your Pet Day. As a huge, nationally-recognized nonprofit organization, it’s easy to become just a faceless machine. They’ve been mentioned in television shows and movies since their conception.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Nancy Roach, a cancer survivor and vocal advocate living in Oregon pulled a group of us together to build a national organization focused solely on change and the needs of the colorectal cancer patient. But those movies are harder to keep updated, as if one step changes the entire thing has to be redone.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Nancy Roach, a cancer survivor and vocal advocate living in Oregon pulled a group of us together to build a national organization focused solely on change and the needs of the colorectal cancer patient. But those movies are harder to keep updated, as if one step changes the entire thing has to be redone.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

Perhaps it is because my generation was raised reading The Diary of Anne Frank and watching dozens of movies about the Holocaust. Governor Schwarzenegger signed the California State Divestment Bill into law, and from there Adam took the campaign nationally. From there, I moved into the position of National Outreach Coordinator.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

This essay, written in 1991, reflects Elaine's experience on the planning staff for the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) on the Mall as an "insider/outsider"--a "hired gun" with museum know-how facilitating the creation of someone else's museum. Add to these challenges the particular challenge of creating a national institution.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for telling your nonprofit’s history on the Social Web, you can add Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, WordPress, and Instagram. Qwiki automatically turns pictures and videos from events you’ve captured on your iPhone into brief movies to share. Timekiwi :: timekiwi.com. Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and others are coming soon.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The competition would progress through in-person competitions to a national competition. Citizen reports should be relayed to both national CERTs and the companies or communities respond for patching the vulnerability. Students would complete an online competition that would serve as qualification for a local competition.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

NISE-NET is probably the single largest investment that the National Science Foundation has made in informal learning, with the intention of spreading knowledge about nano science. I cut out from the meeting by myself to check out an exhibition called Open House, if These Walls Could Talk at the Minnesota History Center. It hasn''t.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

My favorite scene from the movie is these women, all ages, all sizes, going to surround the peace talks in Ghana, which were essentially going nowhere. It is a good thing we are doing this in Women's History Month. I think my comment in The Nation was really more about that. It hasn't happened in Latin America's history.

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