Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. The photo captures a improvised moment in one of the sessions of modeling “ Learning Over Each Other’s Shoulders &# as Nancy White likes to call it. Told the room that nonprofit capacity building was my calling.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? I learned a lot.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

I immediately recalled a phenomenon I witnessed as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). The Rhode Island School of Design was established in 1877 alongside its Museum of Art, an important resource for RISD students. The Edna Lawrence Nature Lab was established in 1937, also as a resource for students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2005

I will be leading several workshops called " Exploring Cambodian Culture " at the Sage School (preK-8 school for gifted students) during "Cluster Week." The site defines it as: CultureQuests allow students to examine, understand, and appreciate diverse cultures, including the student's own culture.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Throw in beer and pizza and music and it can be fun. Are there online courses, Youtube videos, music lists, playlists, podcast episodes you have been on, guest appearances on radio shows you recorded, news clippings, etc.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Live Music Battles Live music battles make for great events because you can find a lot of excellent musical talent who want to get their names out there. You can either use a pay-to-enter model or turn it into a bit more of a gamble, where participants get a basket of eggs that may or may not contain a valuable prize.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. Elsewhere Collaborative (Greensboro, NC).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. Some of the new volunteers are high school students, others are college professors.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. A documentary film crew might use Kickstarter to pay for travel costs, or a dance troupe to pay for recorded music so they don't have to hire musicians for their live performances. Tags: marketing fundraising business models. Or sail around the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Abby Rosenheck: Urban sprouts is a school garden program where we support middle and high schools in San Francisco to build school gardens at their school, so the students grow, prepare, eat--the whole thing. Britt Bravo: Do you have any stories about how this work has impacted individual students' lives?

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Everyaction

MAY 16, 2018

In addition to their commitment to providing comprehensive mental health services to residents of Ocean County, OMHS also offers a unique educational offering in the form of Ocean Academy, a small therapeutic school that supports students who need mental health support in order to succeed academically.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

How much for a student? The same goes for skydiving, music concerts, and camping fees. Or, maybe we should consider a “one price fits most” model. Pop quiz: How much does it cost to go a museum? And I don’t mean cost in a global bottom line sense—I mean how much does it cost to walk up to the admissions desk and buy a ticket?

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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. The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences + Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. Leadership. Fundraising.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. Second, Empowerment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I asked the students what else does that? I listened to music to get into a meditative state. It also helps students learn the process of a rapid prototype experiment that has viral effects, can be measured, and improved with reflection. The class blog features posts by the students. I did not eat chocolate.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

But I have yet to find a school that has *any* idea how to spend money on technology to actually educate students. The best I’ve seen is schools that can reasonably provide technology support for staff and students’ work: “productivity&# applications and web access, basically. 2 Michelle Murrain 04.09.07

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

After advising the students of trying as much as possible to remain in school, he explained his reasoning: “Because education is the most powerful weapon which we can use in order to prepare our youth for their role as leaders of tomorrow.”. I noticed many children not in school and the large proportion of them were girls.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

They come up with an entire CD of music and poetry and we perform them on the last day of camp, so it gives people a real opportunity, hands-on, to really get out there and share what they've learned. How to have better practices in communication, and I think one of the things we do at Art and Action is model collective leadership.

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