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Don’t Bring Your Phone in the Shower

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. At the Durfee Foundation, we bring together nonprofit leaders from different fields to work on intractable problems in the Los Angeles region.

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Quick Hit: See you at AAM (and my Los Angeles must-do list)

Museum 2.0

For those folks trekking out to Los Angeles this week for AAM, I hope to run into you at the conference. Hosting a session on Monday at 2pm on Design for Participation with participatory design gurus Kathleen McLean and Dan Spock, along with research extraordinaire Kris Morrissey and participatory art rockstar Mark Allen.

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What Happens at GEO Doesn’t Stay at GEO (and that’s a good thing)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Carrie Avery is president of the Durfee Foundation , a family foundation in Los Angeles, California. What would it look like if we mapped this web?

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The Time Has Come to Reinvent Fall 2020 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Events

Connection Cafe

AIDS/LifeCycle launches AIDS/LifeCycle @ Home and the My545 Challenge – AIDS/LifeCycle is a fully supported, seven day, 545-mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles, co-produced by and benefiting San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

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Beijing School for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The principal of the school, proudly showed off plans to expand the campus over the next few years, with high quality architectural site drawings that would have looked perfectly in place in Chicago. This is a country which two weeks earlier had been hosting the Paralympics, and they were very proud. Our team toured the school.

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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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CA: One of the best things that happened to me while volunteering for the local art museum is they funded my travel to Los Angeles and my tuition to take the week-long grant writing training bootcamp hosted by The Grantsmanship Center. Q: What are the best grant writing courses? Q: Do you have suggestions on where to network?

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Finding a Community of Nonprofit Technology Experts

Tech Soup

What if there was a place for your nonprofit to get free technology support from local experts? Every month, our global network of community organizers hosts Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. Los Angeles, California: Creating Community with Digital Tech. Well, there are! Wednesday, August 3, 2016.