Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

What I need is your input -I'd love to hear about your social media "adaption stories" - please leave me a comment. As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. Now say that five times fast! More on that later.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

A lively discussion took place regarding how to prepare young people for the jobs of the 21 st century and what nonprofits and corporations can do to support the initiative. Through the program, the native San Franciscan learned valuable business skills, received tech training, and made job connections. More Resources.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Here’s a story of my own about that. Without them, young people on our waitlist continue to face the challenges that low levels of literacy create in their lives. If you’ve done a good job taking care of your monthly donors, you’ll get several takes. Not to mention the $240 is predictable income!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2010

The next day, I'm getting a full-on tour of the BBC newsrooms, a preview of the new BBC News website design, an in-depth demo of the content management system including how to move approved stories around in response to user interest, a graphical overlay on these pages showing top links being clicks, and so on.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 11, 2016

We asked Steve Zimmerman to tell us about one of his favorite case stories where the matrix mapping process brought to light the critical observation of impact and profitability simultaneously. When the matrix map was completed, it showed counseling, financial literacy and job training operating at financial deficits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

If you know some great folks (especially techies) who want a job that embodies their values as well as paying a competitive wage, please send them my way! Route 66 Literacy Our newest project is Route 66 Literacy, and it includes a demonstration site that anyone can try out. We featured many of these on Benetech's website.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2015

After wrapping up our annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), NTEN’s CEO, Amy Sample Ward, and I quickly recharged for SXSW Interactive , where we partnered another year with Beaconfire to host the Beacon Lounge for social changemakers, and with the NonProfit Times to cover stories on the nonprofit technology sector. In the U.S.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Ever helpful, the team got on board to roll up their sleeves and pitch in at San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits that had big volunteer jobs. A call went out over a combination of listservs and social media channels asking local nonprofits and libraries to share their most pressing needs and dirtiest jobs with TechSoup via video or text.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

American Literacy is Iffy. There’s a great story about Nora Ephron that illustrates how powerful addressing your audience is: Before she became an award-winning screenwriter, Nora Ephron was a senior at Beverly Hills High School. A ‘lede’ is the first sentence of a new story. When setting out to create some digital copy—e.g.,

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We heard many stories detailing the aftermath of the abrupt transition to virtual work, or the shuttering of programs entirely, beginning in spring 2020. Many of the stories we heard describe access limitations that were either introduced or exacerbated by COVID-19. The most fortunate kept their jobs and their health.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. Veterans Organic Garden is a visionary job training and rehabilitation program for disabled veterans developed by Lovay Wallace-Singleton. HART for Animals. Image 3: Braided River.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Sometimes a story begins on a whim and a spark. By using ICT infrastructure that is already set up in these countries, Library For All partners to ensure that quality, locally relevant reading material is available to help improve literacy and promote education. How These Entrepreneurs Got Their Start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I couldn’t help but think about how important content curation skills, information literacy, and encouraging a movement around this as Clay Johnson suggests in his book, the Information Diet. Leng Sopharath has graduated, has a job, and now we’re even connected on Facebook where I learned she also got married.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Over the past week though, there have been little glimpses of happiness amid the disasters, scandals and economic bad news - stories about the CNN Heroes: Ordinary People Extraordinary Impact. Today, she offers hundreds of children who work in Phnom Penh's trash dump a way out through free schooling and job training."

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 3, 2015

The truth is that a majority of us are not just looking for jobs anymore. You tell your story. For Fashion Project that means a force for clean water, a force for global literacy, a force for aids relief, a force for autism research, a force for food, a force for a cure, a force for awareness, a force for peace.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

If we want to get our story out there in a form that will get attention, videos are the ticket. To attract good applicants, nonprofits may well need to go mobile with their job application process. The NPR story on mobile recruiting is a good place to find out about this new trend. This past year, U.S. One is hiring.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? I have a story that you have to hear.'" It was what I thought would be my dream job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

In addition to going to a bilingual and bicultural school, I was already set on the path of understanding that there are always multiple sides to a story, perspectives, opinions, ways to express yourself, etc. All three areas are never-ending jobs. How do you balance blogging, being a parent of the 3 kids, and a teacher?

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

When it comes to determining how effective programs and organizations are, anecdotes don't tell the whole story. Will you track results of adult literacy tests or teens transitioned into work programs? User Friendliness: The best systems make everybody's job easier. Ingvild Bjornvold, Social Solutions.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

This time, the onscreen actors and educator don't say "good job" or reward the students for their desire to avoid invasion. As Mira explained: The goal is for students to experience presidential decision making, and then debrief, discuss, and share, utilizing historical and civic literacy skills. It would also be expensive.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

What are their jobs? They were college-educated and had professional jobs. If your organization promotes literacy, partner with a bookstore. So, think about images that will tell the story all by themselves: A volunteer dishing up a plate of hot food. And the best way to do that is with stories. Lots of stories.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

The information gathered by these groups was done so at great risk to themselves and to those whose stories they document, but it remains on paper or in insecure electronic formats. Benetech is drawing top talent by offering Silicon Valley tech jobs with a social purpose.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

You can either host constituents who share stories related to your cause and your nonprofit’s work, or you can provide a stage for local storytellers to share narratives, myths, or personal tales. This is a great event to build connections with your community as it doesn’t require tickets to attend. Join a Neon CRM Group Demo 29.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Short Story/Poetry Anthologies Many nonprofits will compile the stories or poetry of supporters and then turn that into an anthology that they can sell. This is an excellent option for getting young people involved in their community while encouraging literacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2012

But how will you know the answer if you don’t set up a test and use measurement and data to help you answer it. This is called “data literacy” — setting up a hypothesis and a way to measure it – and analyzing the results and deciding how to improve. What does this mean for our strategy?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, if I provide 10 English as a second language or 10 computer literacy programs a year for 10 people, let’s just say that’s 100 pieces of content, that’s service. So earlier I mentioned maybe a parent who took English as a second language classes or maybe they got their GED or they took those computer literacy programs.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

This foundation provides approximately $130 million each year in total grant activity supporting nonprofits that provide direct services in the areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Community Services. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. Areas served: California. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. Vermont Women’s Fund.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

This foundation provides approximately $130 million each year in total grant activity supporting nonprofits that provide direct services in the areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Community Services. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. Areas served: California. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. Vermont Women’s Fund.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

I was at that time working at a wonderful organization called Streetside Stories , which is a literacy arts organization with programming in various Title 1 middle schools in San Francisco. After the school year ended, I ended up taking the job with SOUL and I’ve been here almost three years now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We develop free and open source software to help groups capture the stories of human rights abuse, and store and back them up securely in another country. Most tech companies think this is the most counter-productive job and innovation killing bill they’ve seen in years. Endangering Human Rights Activists. Wonderful stuff.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

A month ago I listened to Christine Karumba, the Country Director for Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tell Honorata's story on the Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast. Each had their own stories of horror, of lives lost, and of struggling to regain their dignity. She received the John F.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

As a feminist, and as a feminine feminist, I truly believe that we don't do a very good job in the United States of believing that you can lead by serving, and I think the United States needs to think deeply about being in service of the rest of the world." "I think there are many different ways in which you define leadership.

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