VisionLink

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Membership by application, and approved by the members themselves (not by us here at VisionLink), the National Breakthrough Network is an extraordinary group of thought leaders improving practice across the nation. Network members define the agenda, the content, and the voice.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Our colleague Stuart Meyer,* who at the time was CEO of the National Barbeque and Grilling Association, a fully virtual organization, made this comment. “We And, most importantly, we discovered new strategies for adaptation and problem solving. More than a few of those executives were managing virtual teams.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others. Storytelling is core to how we as human beings communicate. From a very young age, it is through stories that we learn about ourselves, those around us, and the world in which we live.

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

There’s strength in numbers, and you need to build a base of educated and engaged advocates to raise their voices with you. Board members, donors, coalitions partners, and folks who have signed a national list but have not taken a local action are all good places to find some of your best volunteers.

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Candid

MAY 23, 2023

.” – Susan Taylor Batten, president and CEO, ABFE After the session ended, the Shaw band played “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (also known as the “Negro National Anthem”). Using the power of our voices Speakers stressed the importance of using our voice to create change.

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Achieve

AUGUST 13, 2015

They view both their network and their voice as two additional types of assets they can offer a cause. Aided by technology, an individual who donates his or her voice may still give skills, time, and money, and then go beyond these actions to advocacy. Rather, they want to go about it in a different way.

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Candid

MAY 19, 2021

Nonprofits, like Mental Health America (MHA) and the National Alliance on Mental Illness ( NAMI ), for example, are making practical toolkits available for free so the public can improve their mental health and increase their resiliency regardless of their personal situation. National Library of Medicine.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Community engagement, a vital component of both collective and civic leadership, involves community members in decision-making and development initiatives, ensuring their voices are heard and respected, and fostering collaboration and collective action within communities.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2022

Black voices, Black spaces. Until the sector reframes the definition of a successful innovator to include proximate Black leaders advancing unparalleled community-driven impact, we will never dismantle the root causes of the world's most urgent problems.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This is a problem. how BIG a problem is this gender imbalance? When we talk about other kinds of diversity in the museum workforce--racial, ethnic, socioeconomic--it's clear that the problem is serious. Is the gender imbalance causing problems for arts workers, visitors, or society? But, and here's where it gets tricky.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is becoming crucially important as the problem of delivering access to text is increasingly solved by the move to ebook publishing and solutions like our Bookshare library. Of course, just as we're solving the text problem, more and more content is moving to richer, more visual forms like graphics, simulations and flash!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2014

UNDP’s network links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach these Goals. Use of social media to discuss the world’s most pressing problems has move from under the table, onto the wall, and now with yesterday’s online event engaged many new voices. Civil Society 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

To learn more about the Fund, I attended a panel called Social Innovation: Harnessing What Works to Address Critical National Challenges at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Engage people who are closest to the problem. Give voice to new and alternative actors.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Perhaps not literally the obstacles faced by your constituents, but in personal terms, it is likely you have faced the very human experience of facing problems you feel are beyond your ability to solve without help (We all have.). Consider lived experience and amplify community voice.

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.orgSource

APRIL 10, 2023

From the National Bureau of Economic Research—companies with more diverse workforces are more likely to innovate and bring new products to market. They are striving to make their leaders look more like their members and better represent the overall demographics of a changing nation. Expecting them to be innovators is a contradiction.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This year marked the 10 th anniversary of the Social Good Summit , an annual conference hosted by the UN Foundation, Mashable, 92 nd Street Y and the United Nations Development Programme that celebrates advocacy and activism for social impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. As the Obama administration ushers in a new era of foreign policy, this nation has an opportunity - an obligation - to aid our global neighbors in Darfur. Darfur Voices. GI-NET's Blog.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

When problems emerge, you have to think of new and creative ways to deal with them. This was also a decade of prosperity and success for many in the nation towards the turn of the century. This took the organization from a private franchise focused on local chapters to one the entire nation—and big donors—could get behind.

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Qgiv

MAY 3, 2023

Keep track of national cause awareness months to plan relevant campaigns around in addition to organizing fundraisers for your organization’s specific projects. Or, if your organization wants to increase awareness for rescue pets, host your campaign in May for National Pet Month.

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Qgiv

JUNE 13, 2023

This reiterates the notion that those who are closest to the problem (lack of diversity) are also closest to the solution! What message do you send by adding voices from the communities you serve? Boards can no longer be out of step with these fast-changing demographics. How does your organization help? What racial groups are absent?

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Through technology, data, and resource-sharing, Community Boost_r seeks to empower Balkan citizens to voice their opinions, demand solutions to everyday problems, and stay informed on accountability and transparency issues. is a site where citizens can report government and community problems and anonymously. From Serbia.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2008

"[Y]ou don't necessarily have to solve a problem. I just have to do what I can. " -- Jerry Fowler, Executive Director of the Save Darfur Coalition , during an interview on the Voices on Genocide Prevention Podcast. I don't have to solve the problem. You just have to take the steps that are available to you.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

We can use our voice and our economic power and our political power to actually make changes to the platform. It’s like, you know, the devil, you know, versus the devil you don’t know… and I would rather have them stay together because the, if you separate them, it’s not going to address any of the problems.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

This is especially acute for accessibility for the blind and disabled, where the TPMs cannot technically distinguish between accessing the content for the making of an illegal copy, or accessing the content to speak it aloud with a synthetic voice or to create a Braille version.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

In the video, people in dire, life-threatening situations, such as having no access to clean water, repeat common ‘first world problems’. On top of the use of this hashtag, their First World Problems Anthems video was also shared and viewed thousands of times. . National Trust: #NTchallenge. Project Life Jacket.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 7, 2017

The perception that this is a problem “over there” allows us to overlook the very real data about gender inequality including, but not limited to, the continuing and disturbing statistics on: violence against women, the gender pay gap, and the under-representation of women in leadership roles in governments and companies globally.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

But, we just saw Amazon fold when the Authors Guild pushed them to turn off the voice of these books: Amazon to flip on Kindle. Recently Target settled out of court with the National Federation of the Blind about its accessible website after Target suffered a couple of reverses in the court case against them. The Textbook problem.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

We depend on the nonprofit sector to help alleviate these problems. Last year, more than 4,600 nonprofit professionals shared their stories, allowing us to both zoom out to show a national overview and focus in on particular sectors, organization sizes, and geographical areas. The economy and housing markets continue to tremble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

I’m very honored to be giving the ending keynote and facilitating a design lab on self-care and avoiding burnout at the National Arts Marketing Project Conference. Because I started my career in the arts field and wanted to do some active listening to the audience before speaking, I came in for the whole conference.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

If you work for a nonprofit, there’s a good chance that you’re working on a tough problem like the achievement gap, homelessness, or global hunger. These are problems with no easy answer, which can leave us feeling overwhelmed by the task ahead. Why this matters for those of us in the nonprofit world. Paula will be glad you did.

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Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

It serves as your voice when grant funders are reviewing proposals, and it can decide whether you secure the grant or not. Writing a good grant proposal requires attention to detail, strategic thinking, and a compelling solution to a problem. Outline how your program can continue long-term to help the problem at hand.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural."

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

To make matters worse, one of the targets of Armstrong’s criticism had a mother willing to adamantly voice her displeasure with his proposed action on national TV, and sound like a mother bear protecting her cub in the process. The issues weighed in at one pound, eight ounces each.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Participants will include: TechSoup Global — an international network of 63 NGOs that serves civil society in more than 140 countries and leverages technology to build nonprofit capacity and help solve social problems locally and globally. Chris Worman, senior director, community engagement; @ChrisWorman.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

On Tuesday, I'll be talking about technology planning for nonprofits and public libraries at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service as a part of the Interactive Strategy Forum. Speaking of problems, I like the rubric don't start with a solution; start with a problem. Align has two important meanings.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

On Tuesday, I'll be talking about technology planning for nonprofits and public libraries at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service as a part of the Interactive Strategy Forum. Speaking of problems, I like the rubric don't start with a solution; start with a problem. Align has two important meanings.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Women are underrepresented in the field of technology, and it’s a global problem. Symantec has made corporate grants to the National Center for Women & Information Technology and Vital Voices. Symantec has made corporate grants to the National Center for Women & Information Technology and Vital Voices.

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