AFP Blog

JULY 27, 2009

Slum children go digital in Johannesburg - Passport - Boston.com: "JOHANNESBURG -- With the help of a little green-and-white plastic laptop, two Boston sisters are changing the way a handful of South African slum kids think about their future -- and the world around them.The Kliptown squatter camp, occupying a small corner of Johannesburg’s Soweto, (..)

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 17, 2011

He answered 3 hours later (from Cloudforce Boston, no less), including some other Salesforce staff in the conversation. I married a Jewish man and we are raising our children Jewish. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common, but we also tend to go in opposite directions when life gets hectic. No matter what.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 17, 2011

He answered 3 hours later (from Cloudforce Boston, no less), including some other Salesforce staff in the conversation. I married a Jewish man and we are raising our children Jewish. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common, but we also tend to go in opposite directions when life gets hectic. No matter what.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

For example, women who earn $23,509 or less gave an average of $540 per year to charity, while men in that income bracket with similar life circumstances (such as education and number of children) gave $281. " Boston Review — Kentaro Toyama: Can Technology End Poverty? You can check out the study here."

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Care2

JUNE 24, 2010

“If 2009 was the year of the "tweet", 2010 is the year of the "check-in", said Joe Waters, Director of Cause and Event Marketing at Boston Medical Center on this weeks Live Discussion over at the Chronicle of Philanthropy. After all, location apps like Foursquare and Gowalla were the breakout technology at SXSWi just a few months ago.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

Here are some of the big differences we noticed: Their work involves life-or-death situations. We champion a historic house museum for hosting a soup kitchen, a children''s museum for tackling family wellness in low-income housing, or an arts organization for writing poems with convicts. Museum work is mostly non-contact.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Paul is the CEO and Co-Founder of Boston-based FableVision, which creates and distributes original educational media, mobile games and apps designed to move the world to a better place. Paul is also a children’s book author who collaborates with his twin brother and NY Times #1 Best-Selling Author/Illustrator, Peter H.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Life is Good Pumpkin Festival was held in Boston, MA on October 21, 2006. They attempted to light 30,000 pumpkins on Boston Common. This event was held to draw national attention to Camp Sunshine , the renowned retreat for children with life-threatening illnesses, located in Casco, Maine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Yet even despite these obstacles, on the night of the third day after the storm, I welcomed these two climate refugees into my home north of Boston. From there they traversed Long Island Sound to New London, Connecticut, and then drove to Boston. How did it happen? A network of grandchildren was activated.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

My friend Gabriela Masala sent me some more good giftie ideas: For the children on her list, she bought High in the Clouds a children's book by Sir Paul McCartney, Geoff Dunbar and Phillip Ardagh. The perfect gift for the man in your life whose legs you love! Subtly-in a way kids would still enjoy a story without lecture."

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 15, 2016

I’m packing my bags and counting down the days to AFP International in Boston. I’m a huge fan of Roger’s book, Retention Fundraising: The Art and Science of Keeping Your Donors for Life and excited for his session on “Rebels with Causes – Fundraising as a Driver of Social Change”. Roger Craver, Editor The Agitator.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 19, 2012

Today’s "Behind the Convio Admin Curtain" installment is full of juicy Convio best practices, and even a restaurant recommendation for stellar chocolate chip pancakes right outside Boston. EG for CC: Please share a few random (unrelated to Pathfinder and Convio) facts about yourself (a fave destination in Boston, perhaps?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Gradon Tripp, Boston Blogger, created a fundraiser to support Jane Doe Inc. Another option, is to sponsor a woman who wants to make a better life some place in the world. One of my favorites is the computer recycling group, FreeGeek. May: When I think of May, I think of Mother's Day. in honor of his late mother. It's your choice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 27, 2006

Their story unfolds in a hot, dusty world where the coming, or lack of rain means the difference between life and death. A percentage of the book's sales will go to expand the capabilities of the clinic, as well as to provide school tuition and health care for Monique’s children. midwife mali women Peace Corps friendship

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Jeff Bauman , who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013, has the second most successful fundraiser on the site with over $800,000 raised. Since GoFundMe is an open platform where people can solicit support for life events of any kind users have found plenty of uses for it – like supporting charitable causes.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. I've always had confidence that I can make the life that I want, and I credit them for empowering me with that perspective. By the spring of 2003 I felt I'd learned what I could in Boston and tried to figure out where to go next.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

And awesome examples like 826 Valencia or the Boston Children's Museum's GoKids program demonstrate that sometimes putting traditional social services like tutoring or food distribution in a cultural context can destigmatize them. EMPSFM has contextual content that places a dislocative event into a familiar global story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

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

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2021

These laws have protected millions of men, women and children from disease and death and have protected hundreds of species from extinction.” In the same year, the Global Reporting Initiative was founded in Boston. Read more about the history of Earth Day here. . . greenhouse gases (GHG)?emissions?in

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2020

Zoom has been a big part of my life for several years now and I’ve used it for board meetings, staff meetings, and committee meetings. My last trip was to Boston and I returned home on March 12. Remember, you might talk about your personal life a bit but your job is not to talk about you.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Jen Fu Cheng | Peak Potential Climbing | Fairfield, NJ Peak Potential is an organization running a 12-week introduction to rock climbing for children with physical disabilities. Twitter: @CSElive ) 6. Twitter: @PeakClimb ) 7. Twitter: @clarkfork ) 10.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Andy Carvin who I known probably for ten years since his early work in educational technology when he lived in Boston and through the years have connected with him in various communities from Global Voices and beyond. It helped me write this post - " What Color is the Social Web? ". Slacktivism: T his term came up during the discussion.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Every week I get to go in and read with the same two children for a half an hour each in the school library. I find it helps keep life in perspective. Today, 826 has chapters in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Michigan, and Boston. I had a blast, and hopefully it was a fun learning experience for him too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2005

Society is giving women a false choice: Either keep the glasses on and do the technical work, or take the glasses off and have a dating life. "Raising children isn't a special job, it just takes planning?" , this myth requires her to take off her glasses. That's bullshit. If men dominate, your mentors will be. computer lab?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 23, 2021

We’ve got Dominique Calixte joining us from beautiful Boston, Massachusetts. Her day job, she’s over at the YW Boston. She’s a board member for the YNPN in Boston for the Massachusetts Chapter of Democrats for Education Reform. You know I’m over at the YW Boston. Dom, how are you doing?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

In 1990, four months after being released from prison, Mandela visited Madison Park High School in Boston to address the community , and he expressed his deep concern about school dropouts both in South Africa and the U.S. I noticed many children not in school and the large proportion of them were girls.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Julia: If you’re not using Canva, what are you doing with your life? The last time we actually went to anything I think, it was the 2019 Boston Pride parade, always a favorite of ours and our family. And I wrote two books which are also like my other two children. How can you fit into their life? . This is Canva.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

The ideal of third places, that attracts we cultural heritage types, is a democratic space where civic life is built collaboratively and at a personal level. Suzanne: I like the Storefront Library in Boston. But when you read Oldenburg closely, you find that his idea of a third place is vastly more specific. Alternatives?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I ended up discovering a program, at New College of California, a couple of years later, when I was producing arts benefits for social change, especially for women and children living with HIV, this was about 1989 and 1990. In 1995, I'm giving you my life story; I took a class called Challenging White Supremacy.

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