Greater Giving

MAY 28, 2021

Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) Houston , the largest, one-to-one mentoring agency in the country, found those same qualities served them well last year when they needed to quickly switch from hosting their yearly gala to hosting a virtual fundraiser during the pandemic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2011

Earlier this week, I met Beatric Ramos who does social media for Alum Rock Counseling, an organization that works with youth on a range of counseling and mentoring programs. Never includes the names of the kids on the photos or tags them on Facebook. She maintains the organization’s Facebook Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

One of the project tasks is to develop a multilingual online learning community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices. (For context, read my earlier post ). Chris is the Director of User Experience for Meedan.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

Conversation Two I had agreed to act as a mentor to a Global Changemaker, in this case Mousa Mousawy, an Iraqi teenager now living in Jordan. I had no idea when I agreed to the mentor gig that there would be something like this I actually know something (a lot) about. Tags: WEF Skoll Brilliant social enterprise Waste Concern.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. We're working on becoming a member program of Oregon Mentors. Tags: interview havefundogood guest. — Amy Potthast, Idealist.org This year, this question is easier to answer than ever.

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JULY 2, 2009

Secrets of Direct Mail Mentoring Course. It’s my “Secrets of Direct Mail Mentoring Course&# and in it you will learn everything you need to know to raise money like the big nonprofits do. So, I created this Mentoring Course to help. Tags: Direct Mail. Accurately estimate expenses and revenues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Build the capacity of these NGOs and CSOs to use new media effectively through mentoring and coaching. Develop a Multilingual Online Learning Community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 1, 2009

Are there good mentoring models? Tags: Open Source Technology Zen. Is it easy for new developers to start, and get deeper in? All of that makes a huge difference. And having a statement doesn’t at all guarantee anything, but it provides something people can point to and say “this is our goal.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 1, 2009

Are there good mentoring models? Tags: Open Source Technology Zen. Is it easy for new developers to start, and get deeper in? All of that makes a huge difference. And having a statement doesn’t at all guarantee anything, but it provides something people can point to and say “this is our goal.&#

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Even better, nonprofits don’t have to define a specific project they can simply be willing to donate their time and data and our mentors will help find the most valuable effort they can. . We have student and mentors ready to provide high-quality web site analysis across the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and even now in Africa.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2010

The core of the program is the two-week in-residence session (mentioned above), but perhaps more than that, GSBI provides participating social entrepreneurs with membership to a network of educators, professionals, mentors, and other well-placed people willing and able to help get innovative projects successfully off the ground.

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NTEN

MAY 19, 2010

You provide access to your data and a few hours of time, and a student-mentor team will analyze aspects of your site's performance in just a few weeks. Tags: analytics exchange Data NPTech NTEN web analytics Web Sites Communications. Time strapped nonprofits can sign up to receive free web site analysis. And you should.

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JULY 12, 2009

And don’t forget that my “Secrets of Direct Mail Mentoring Course&# starts on Tuesday. Tags: Direct Mail nonprofit direct mail. Do you have a question about direct mail? Click on the comment link below and ask. Click here to learn more or to sign up: [link].

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

NAME student fellowship (2): WHAT YOU GET: conference registration, $500 for travel/hotel, free tickets to NAME events, and a NAME mentor to hang out with you during the conference. Tags: professional development. Here are the specifics on these fellowships. ALSO, YOU MUST: not have attended the AAM annual meeting before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2009

Tags: fundraising2.0 I could not resist striking up a conversation with them, especially since we had so much rough turbulence that it helped distract me. I'll certainly be exploring these tools and programs in more depth. What other airline (and route) offers a great flying experience and offline networking opportunities!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2006

This blog is was Juanita Brown's first foray into blogging and I feel proud to have been one of her mentors! Mentoring Worldwide - This blog is for Lucy Hooberman's mentoring worldwide project. Technorati Tags: blogday2006 A Fine Blog - Allison Fine's blog. I'll be posting my review shortly. I love Lucy! Go sign up!

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MAY 13, 2009

and mentor your new hire for the rest. . Tags: Management. It’s critical to the success of your organization to get the right people in the right spots. Hire for the skills you can’t train (like passion, commitment, etc.) When it’s time to let someone go, be brave and do it. What do you think?

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AUGUST 17, 2010

Personally, I have several coaches and mentors. Tags: Leadership Management Personal/Professional Development coach nonprofit. If you’re going to invest in yourself in this very personal way, make sure that your coach is also investing in themselves. I learn different things from different ones.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

Personally, I have several coaches and mentors. Tags: Leadership Management Personal/Professional Development coach nonprofit. If you’re going to invest in yourself in this very personal way, make sure that your coach is also investing in themselves. I learn different things from different ones.

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MARCH 23, 2010

Are you in a mentoring relationship with someone you can learn from? Tags: General Fundraising nonprofit fundraising. If you’re an AFP member, are you utilizing the resource center? They can get you samples of just about anything. No need to look for “new&# ideas for fundraising.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 4, 2009

It was a lot of fun, and since Andy was doing an excellent job of facilitating, and Amy was mentoring the groups, I was able to capture proceedings on video. Tags: net tuesday socialbysocial game nettuesday socialmedia. The task was to choose cards totalling only 10 points from each pack. Social by Social game cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2006

Britt Bravo and I have the pleasure of being the blogging mentors this week on the Young Caucasus Women Project. The young women were given the same assignment and part of our tasks as Mentors was read and comment on their work. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech Siran appreciates what art brings to her life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

This points to a great opportunity for reverse mentoring and working across generations. Tags: scholar. On of the ah ha content moments for me was: "You mean there are young people in our organizations who know how to use these tools?" 8 Principles for Using Social Media Effectively View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter.

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MAY 26, 2010

I had a couple of wonderful mentors, but they helped me with specific areas of fundraising and not the whole picture. Tags: General Fundraising Fundraising Makeover. I remember early in my fundraising career that I stumbled. I was figuring things out as I went and I made a lot of mistakes. Interested?

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NTEN

AUGUST 18, 2009

Tim Hogan and The Royal Order design firm are helping the Tutor/Mentor Connection in Chicago rearchitect and redesign their current site. Tags: mozilla mozilla service week NPTech Volunteers. of the UK is creating a guide. First up is an “ Internet Health Check” with easy steps on how to keep people safe on the Web.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It’s incredibly rewarding to help others, and teaching – or mentoring – gives me a sense of accomplishment. Tags: Have Fun Do Good Guest Posts guest. I consider myself a teacher: I take a few days off a year to teach at American University, and I do a lot of public speaking and training. It’s also an act that is both vain and humbling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Our group also visited Starfish Impact School , where we learned about their work to ensure indigenous girls have equal access to education and provided mentoring and training for young women graduates of Starfish. So, before we did the icebreaker, I had everyone put dots on their name tags.

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Forj

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Ask for options that will let your team upload existing questions to their LMS or write new ones directly in the program, build a question bank and tag questions with different qualifiers. Choose a robust learning management system that lets your team create tests without much complexity. Assessment Analysis. Credit Tracking and Transcript.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2007

I'm mentoring in Nancy White's online facilitation workshop and she just shared a pointer to this tool. I used to help me with some preparation for tomorrow's presentation on tagging. I've been using mindmapping software for quite a while (ever since Version 1 of Visio) now to help me think. I had to play with it.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2020

Fred Gold "My mentor gave me a simple, but profound piece of advice as I started my career: recognize the people who work with you and acknowledge them for who they are and what they're doing for the museum. I hope it can bring others some moments of clarity and action, too!” Andrea Ledesma So what about you?

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JUNE 4, 2010

Charlaine Hood, LMSW is the owner of Vibrantly Alive Consulting & Nonprofit Mentoring. Tags: Grant Writing fundraising Grant (money) Non-profit organization Philanthropy. Using just this method over the last few years, I have written and received over 1.3 million dollars in grants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2006

Oh, it makes me miss my computer club mentor days so much. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , blogher , nonprofit , ngo , Dave's sig line gave me an instant flash of what's he up to lately: Technology Director, Lower Eastside Girls Club Ex-Television hack, podcaster, Maya maniac Blog for girls cheerleader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Work Literacy is a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. Michele Martin and Tony Karer have been blogging at the Work Literacy blog for several months now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

At this year's SXSW, I was invited to participate on a flash panel about women and technology conferences which ended up being about mentoring. Tags: sxsw. We had to replace one of the speakers and I recommended Michaela. She did a fantastic job. And that will make all the difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

So, I demonstrated how to tag a person in a wall post and posted the question: Manny Hernadez : Should an organization that serves both Spanish-speaking and English-speaking audience (and some only speak one language) have two different Fan Pages in the native language? Tags: scholar technology training training materials.

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JUNE 3, 2010

Over the past ten years, Stephen has written successfully funded grant proposals in a variety of areas including professional development, school improvement, service-learning, after school, mentoring, school technology, family literacy, youth fitness, violence prevention, and college access programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

tags: wonderwebby quotes ). The members will meet each week to make their repayments, discuss issues relevant to their businesses and personal lives, and receive business training and mentoring. A Womans Investment - invitation to contribute View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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