Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

https://storify.com/ResourceMedia/brainerd-foundation-s-21st-century-advocacy-design”>Storify. The techniques that help you get at understanding are not always fun or easy to do. It requires stepping back and seeing the big picture. The first technique I used to get at individual understanding of the design challenge.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Of course, they’re also challenging to manage as you’re handling the donations of items on one end and funds on the other. 5Ks are a great option as they’re relatively short but still challenging enough for more seasoned runners. Comedy Nights Comedy nights are a good way to bring some lighthearted fun to your organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. You can also send fun cards using Felt. A set of screensavers and background images.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

I thought I’d take the examples Joe as a challenge and see how many creative nonprofit Pinterest Board ideas and use-cases I can come up with. Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. Build a Board of images modeling healthy food choices. Steal these 42 Creative Pinterest Ideas for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Ann Wizer is an artist who uses design and education to protect the environment and reduce poverty. Ann is an activist and an artist. Ben Rattray mentioned: The vast majority of social good platforms have failed because they have modeled social good platforms on commercial applications. We faced challenges. They don't.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. A museum tour in which a docent "tours" you to a variety of volunteer artists who talk about how they create their work.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

And then there's the Berkeley Ace hardware store, which has a basement lair devoted to model trains. Not only do I get to experience the fun of opening the door to something mystical, I get to play porter and grant my friends access as well. Secrecy operates on a scarcity model; if everyone knows about it, it's not as appealing.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2007

But it's a lot of fun, and it could be a great way to construct a personalized takeaway from a museum experience. I remember the first time an artist friend of mine took me to a museum and I watched him laugh at some of the art. The artist made something funny." Is this educational? Not in an obvious way. Why are you laughing?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

What we do here in Oakland, and throughout the Bay Area, is we work with inner city companies that not only have a scalable model, but also have a social responsibility aspect built into their business model. What are the challenges specific to having an enterprise in an inner city? That is our inherent challenge.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

In it, John provides a model for the museum visitor experience based on one fundamental idea: people visit and make meaning from museum experiences based on their ability to fulfill identity-related goals and interests. But those goals are secondary to the primary focus on physical challenge and achievement.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

So many of the activities available in interactive museums--exploding toothpaste, liquid nitrogen ice cream, collage-making, robot wars--are just as interesting, educational, and fun for adults as they are for kids. Most hackerspaces have very transparent legal structures and operate on a consensus model. This isn't just a geek thing.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Give away the fun (and easy) part. It's the execution of them as good exhibits that's the challenge." I think the reason we hold onto the idea generation part is because it's fun, not because it's the activity in which we have the most specialized expertise. But it wasn't all rosy, and we weren't perfect.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The mission of World of Good, as a company, is to create the largest distribution system for fair trade, handmade items from artists' and women's cooperatives around the world. The way that World of Good has really gone about this is, we have done it in a two-part model. So the pricing models are all based on commodity pricing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Nest is a nonprofit organization that empowers female artists and artisans around the world. We wanted to create a model that had nothing to do with that so that the women weren't terrified to take our loans. What is the biggest challenge for your organization? Our conversation began with Rebecca describing how Nest works.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

I am an artist and I was getting my Masters of Fine Arts at the time from John F. Britt: Your training is as a fine artist. Britt: What is the biggest challenge of your work? Reem: I think, quite honestly, because we haven't run a business before, it is probably our biggest challenge. Kennedy University. They are amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Here is an example of an artistic program or creative process undertaken as a crowd and it isn't a cheap publicity stunt. Pick the Right Model. TechSoup Global has been one of the leaders experimenting with type of model through its Challenges. And, as Stacey Monk points out , these are not without their challenges.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But we’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so, for sure. So look at the fact, are you creating and using an evidence-based program model? So, if your program has an evidence-based model, and I’m not just saying. I’m Steven, over here at Bloomerang, as always moderating our discussion today.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

If you look around the world at some of the most pressing environmental challenges, you see women on the front lines of those challenges. When we look at environmental challenges, we can't avoid the question of women's role within designing the solutions. The greatest challenge we face is the challenge of access.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

It definitely has been a little bit of a challenge to work on because it's not billable work. I think so far it's similar to the BarCamp event model where it started out as being a lot of geeks and people online, because it spread through online vehicles. BB: What are some of the challenges?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

In April, I gave 13 UW graduate students a simple challenge: make an exhibit that gets strangers to talk to each other. The whole exhibit modeled the potential for someone to respond to your query, and as it grew, the sense that you would be responded to and validated grew as well. The post-its and pens were right there.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

On March 5, 2009 I interviewed yoga teacher and co-Founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, Seane Corn , for the Big Vision Podcast shortly after she returned from a trip to Cambodia with participants from Off the Mat, Into the World's Seva Challenge. For example, we put together the 2008 Seva Challenge.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now. 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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