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The Information Diet: Not Just A Book, A Movement For Conscious Consumption of Information

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been curating resources and teaching workshops on the topic of information coping skills for a couple of years. The author not only wants to change our habits, but start local campaigns to encourage our social connections to change as well. To encourage consumption of local information.

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#IFC2014 International Fundraising Congress: Inspire, Connect, Transform

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He shared an amazing story of how his institution has adapted to online networks and digital photography, but the even more inspiring were the many photos and the stories of social change behind those photos. All in all this was one of the most inspirational and professional rewarding speaking and teaching I’ve done in a long time.

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Adobe Is Creating Change

Tech Soup

The Foundation supports organizations with a principal focus on the creation and exhibition of visual and multimedia art, as well as those that use or teach design as a tool to address social issues and to improve lives and communities. The Foundation's community grants program has two focus areas: Arts and Creativity. Youth Services.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. For teaching and learning. Growing and Eating Local Foods. Photography students use Flickr to post, organize, share, and critique their colleagues?????? no need for local copies, CDs, flash drives, etc.).

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6 Great Nonprofit Social Media Accounts

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

Plus, despite (mostly) being big name nonprofits, each profile teaches something that you can use to improve your own profile. Humane Society also shares tips and information on how to better take care of our animal friends, for example, signs of heatstroke in dogs and cats and how to help local shelters.

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TechSoup's Netsquared Organizers Win 2015 NTENny Awards

Tech Soup

Birgit goes above and beyond quite often to provide pro bono technology help to local nonprofit organizations. She has been with the Naples Free-Net since 1998 and organized the NFN4Good nonprofits support and education program to teach WordPress, CiviCRM, and other open-source software. We mourn him and remember him well.

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[VIDEO] 4-Step Plan to More Donations and Greater Fundraising Results

Bloomerang

I that’s what I do for a living or aren’t you teaching us about fundraising today, Jesse?” And then eventually we felt like we needed to put this into an online course so that as many people as possible could engage with it because obviously I was limited in how I could teach it. You know, it’s not cool.

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