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Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership 

Candid

I was concerned about mobilizing our network to share data that might then be packaged and sold back to those same nonprofits. They sought diverse perspectives in focus groups and made structural changes to address outdated language, power dynamics, and privacy concerns.

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Celebrate, Educate, and Fundraise: Planning Winning AAPI Heritage Month Events

The Modern Nonprofit

But how do you ensure your events not only honor this rich heritage but also captivate and mobilize your community towards meaningful action? Overall, cultural events for AAPI Heritage Month allow celebration of shared heritage while mobilizing support for ongoing efforts to promote equity and justice. Avoid too much cultural jargon.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Making Accommodations In Workshops

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. However, when I have participants that also include physically disabled people who are wheel-chair users, have limited mobility, or blind, I make accommodations to be inclusive and, especially avoid being ableist.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Example of Partham Books on mobile phones.

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Guest Post: Oh Snap! Experimenting with Open Authority in the Gallery

Museum 2.0

It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. When early feedback indicated users were confused about the submission process, we fine-tuned our language and quickly produced a promo video that distills the complete process in a hilarious 2-minute story.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8.

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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

Tech Soup

These may include things like mobile phones, cameras, or even drones. Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline.

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