Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Image by the National Braille Press, a DIAGRAM subcontract. Accordingly, U.S.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In its 2023–2024 Trendbook, the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) estimates that net tuition revenue—tuition minus financial aid—makes up 79% of independent schools’ income. Life happens, and the goodwill created by renegotiating tuition payment plans for extenuating circumstances can benefit the school in the long run.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We believe that having more minds working simultaneously on a problem increases the odds of solving that problem well and quickly. We’re thrilled that students and other readers who have disabilities that keep them from reading standard print can now read the same books as their peers, using the same devices.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 30, 2021

Is your Ideal Volunteer a college student with a lot of enthusiasm for staffing pet adoption events or tutoring middle-schoolers? Or is your Ideal Volunteer retired from the workforce and able to bring maturity and life experience to sensitive work of supporting families experiencing food insecurity? Don’t micromanage.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

That’s what’s been on my mind lately. I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. 10X: ten times the impact.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Tutor students so they can reach their potential in school? Think about your audience as someone who doesn’t know anything about food insecurity, homelessness, first generation college students, or animal abuse. If you want to help first generation college students, how do you want to help them? How will yours make a difference?

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Whether you’re a big organization working on a national level or a small community group, you’ve probably got some company. The American Cancer Society touts itself as “The Official Sponsor of Birthdays,” which is a bit of a head-scratcher until you realize that curing cancer adds birthdays to every patient’s life.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 26, 2011

When I think back on my time with ASU Lodestar Center's Public Allies Arizona program, many different memories and candid moments pop into my mind. This year alone, Joseph Perez created an entire collaborative program that uses hip hop to teach students about life. Every service day, there it would be.

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Volunteer Hub

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

One out of four American’s volunteer, two out of three Americans help their neighbor according to a study performed by The Corporation for National & Community Service. Volunteers are almost twice as likely to donate to a charity than those that don’t volunteer according to The Corporation for National & Community Service.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

Flickr: jasonshim By Jason Shim and Shubhagata Sengupta At Pathways to Education, we offer cross-cultural conflict resolution training called YOUCAN, and one of the first topics we cover with the students is that the analogy of an iceberg can be useful in understanding people. This tends to address 95% of the questions that arise.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This is not new, but it was on the minds of our volunteer managers, and in a big way. This was part of the national conversation when schools pivoted to online classrooms, which catered to families with reliable internet, ample supply of modern devices, and space to use them. School districts scrambled to get Chromebooks to students.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Education: A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste® — UNCF -The United Negro College Fund. International, Foreign Affairs & National Security: Send a Net. Save a Life. Open minds. SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise). It’s definitive, with a powerful economy of words. An excellent example of a mission-driven tagline.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

This strategy helps educate them that you have a lot on tap already and that you won’t be dropping everything to sell poinsettias, publish a cookbook, enter a national contest, or write a letter to a celebrity asking for money (or whatever else they’ve come up with). Often, fear of creating a less-than-perfect plan holds people back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

I was particularly eager to hear the afternoon lecture , Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation , by Charles Nesson at iLaw. In 1998, during the embryonic stages of the project, this focus turned to a concept called "Reverence for Life," a non-demonational philsophy of self-development which had taken root in Jamaica's prisons.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2020

If, through my effort to secure funding for these young minds and the brilliant folks who challenge them to grow both intellectually and in their sense of civic responsibility, then my work has deeper meaning. One of my sisters and my father, who will turn 90 years old in the spring, got together to record his life story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Last year, I decided that I didn’t need to wait until New Year’s to establish happy, healthy habits in my life. I also facilitated several design labs with nonprofits as part of the research for the Happy Healthy Nonprofit at the Alliance for Nonprofit Management and the National Arts Marketing Project. How about you? I did it!

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Most of us learned about augmented reality about a year ago when the Pokémon Go craze swept the nation for the summer. Augmented reality mixes fantasy and reality—projecting the AR object over the real world so that you see real-life and computer-generated mixed on your device. So, what is augmented reality? Seriously loco.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In my twenties, the museum became quite literally a giant board game in scavenger hunts I designed for my friends (next time you go to their dinosaurs look down at your feet - the floor tiles turn the room into a perfect life-sized boardgame).

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is the only national conference expressly designed to prepare 400+ college students for a career in the social sector. Get ready to learn from some of the best analytics minds out there. Impact National Conference / Amherst, MA / Less than $200. Alliance Management Institute.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the issues they champion have taken a backseat in people’s minds this year, as our nation’s attention has been captured by one shocking event after another. Through creative copywriting and compelling visuals , The Mission Continues brings Dustin’s challenging and encouraging story to life on their blog. Final Thoughts.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

2016 Alliance National Conference. 2016 Alliance National Conference. Take full advantage of the best national peer network by attending the 2016 Alliance National Conference. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. ASAE / National Harbor, MD / $1,399.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because life begins after high school and it really does get better. Because our veterans have earned their benefits and the right to a better life after the battlefield. National Anti-Vivisection Society.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2005

According to a study by the journal, Political Psychology , students who were already "community-minded" were not affected by community service requirements at their school, but students who were more "self-interested" developed a, "willingnes to donate their time to charity as well as a greater political awareness."

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

This is key to ensuring your organization stays at the top of your donors’ minds and remains relevant in their lives. This consists of 45-minute meetings sent out to all donors for updates on programming and the Family Stability Fund, as well as to connect with some students. 4 Game Ideas to Try at Your Virtual Event (Plus Examples!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Not to mention that writing something online provides a permanent record that can be stored indefinitely is incredibly different than a known gossip’s spoken word, this argument did not fly with me on two levels: 1. Social networking will soon no longer be a choice, it will be a requirement to participation in modern life.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Because without art our children’s minds will not grow to comprehend life beyond the obvious. Because life begins after high school and it really does get better. Because our veterans have earned their benefits and the right to a better life off the battlefield. National Anti-Vivisection Society. Moms Rising.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). Haven't you changed the model some, because it was a fundraising model through students fundraising, and now it's a little bit different? We would bring students.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Most of our nonprofits have a human or community interest in mind, that purpose, and they exist to create impact, positive impact on the communities that we serve. Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students. And for a good reason.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Climate change is on people's minds. BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade? So yes, awareness around Fair Trade is growing, but it's growing slowly basically because the resources are still insufficient to tackle the job in a major national way. So, we're mindful of that.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I don’t have an identity grounded in an single culture, nation or land. Battery-life permitting, this would mean (albeit at a low resolution) you’d be able save your whole life by dangling your iPhone around your neck and recording every moment. This is often referred to as life caching or lifelogging. Our Stories.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

These fundraisers can’t wrap their minds around coming out and asking someone for money. You could look at their past giving, their philanthropic interests and tendencies like whether they support local agencies or only give to organizations with a national profile. Put that out of my mind. I don’t mind.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

Story mining is not a difficult science; it just takes a curious mind and a patient soul to listen to peoples' stories and encourage them to keep sharing. Put the time and the resources in to bring the story to life. Secondly, I learned that good stories are the ones that rise to the top. Please visit the site to view this video).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

While the primary goal is for students to learn about strategic use of networks and social media for international organizations, I will also be covering some practical career skills such as effective networking and self-directed professional learning (also called “Social Learning”).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

The one example that is clearest in my mind is witnessing the violence of Spirit of the Dead Watching paired next to The Yellow Christ during the staff preview of the Humble and Human exhibition. The DIA was also about to receive hundreds of students who visit to celebrate the student exhibition show. And it shows.

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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. Water is an essential resource for human life. It’s not just about institutional change.

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