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Celebrating Black history and Black futures

Candid

While the history of the holiday is a bitter tale that involves immense trauma and deceit, we have grown to celebrate and reflect on the day as the first semblance of freedom Black people were granted, albeit nearly 100 years after the Declaration of Independence boldly offered freedom to everyone else. Looking to the future.

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Reflections from Center for Nonprofit Excellence Annual Conference, Louisville, KY

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today I facilitated a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. This saved a lot of time during the report out on reflections and learning. The conference was fun because I finally got a chance to meet Rosetta Thurman face-to-face!

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Becoming A Networked Nonprofit Workshop: Reflections from Junior Achievement Worldwide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Dalton who works with the Louisville, KY JA Office mentioned her organization reached out to the local Social Media Club to recruit a board member. The ECS Foundation accepted the proposal and granted funds to help support aspiring female high school students become future leaders. They were lucky enough to have Jason Falls help them out.

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Guest Post: How to Build Capacity with Roles that Volunteers Enjoy: a process in 4 easy steps

Twenty Hats

For example, if your development team wants volunteers who are passionate about fundraising, your recruitment efforts should reflect that. She lives in Denver, CO and is originally from Louisville, KY. In addition, I made sure to ask staff about their expectations of a volunteer. Step 2: Survey Your Volunteers.

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Social Media Game: Kentucky Derby Remix for CNPE Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm facilitating a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. On the long plane ride back to the mainland, reflected on what work and what didn't in Hawaii. On the road again for the next couple of weeks, including a trip to Romania.

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Juneteenth Resources

Media Cause

Their mission is simple, to increase access to children’s books that center, reflect, and affirm the experiences of Black children. . . —Young, Black & Lit was started by book lovers who understand the critical importance of reading and representation in the lives of children. Organizations to Donate to.

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And the Winner(s) of the Social Media Library Are.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But the grand prize winner of the books offered by Steve are: Erin McMahon , Metro United Way, Louisville, KY. The most interesting part of webinars is the q/a and Tara got an interesting question about how you measure Whuffie and she wrote her reflection here. Erin even wrote a little poetry as part of her entry.

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