Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Case Foundation, Causes, and PARADE are joining together to present the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge , a national competition launching on October 7. NEWS Below is a roundup of blog posts and podcast interviews I've published since my last Have Fun Do Good Link Love (where did the month go?):

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

I was awarded one of the 2006 MacArthur Fellowships. These awards are based not so much on past achievements, as an expectation that you will do something exciting in the future. My two closest peers in California have both gotten MacArthurs (Victoria Hale this year and David Green two years ago).

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Host a pub-style quiz for your community and include some questions about your mission as a fun way to share your organization’s impact. Charge admission and screen popular movies, or theme it around the Academy Awards by screening some of the 2024 nominees. Movie night Movie nights are another great spring fundraising idea.

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Ideas Fundraising Celebrate Hosting 95

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Green Technology. In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. Social media is now officially the most common thing we do online.

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News Review Technology Adobe 62

Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

Also in the running and campaigning hard are (in alphabetical order) Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation; Citizens for Global Solutions, Faithful Security; Genocide Intervention Network; Global Green USA; National Religious Campaign Against Torture; and Women’s Action for New Directions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

He is currently a Fellow in the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program, which is a national project of the W.K. His first book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , which he co-authored with Anna Lappe , won a 2007 Nautilus Award for Social Change. Kellogg Foundation. He was also a co-host of the PBS series, Endless Feast.

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Authoring New York City Delicious Green 43

Candid

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The Richard King Mellon Foundation has announced a $100 million commitment to the University of Pittsburgh to establish an anchor bioresearch and development facility on Hazelwood Green. Read more.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Green Foundation. Historically for female entrepreneurs, the Amber Grant can now be awarded to female-led nonprofit organizations with vision and passion. By funding these nonprofits in their nascent stages, they help them to test their programs and initiatives, and scale them for maximum impact in their local communities.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 104

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Green Foundation. Historically for female entrepreneurs, the Amber Grant can now be awarded to female-led nonprofit organizations with vision and passion. By funding these nonprofits in their nascent stages, they help them to test their programs and initiatives, and scale them for maximum impact in their local communities.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 83

OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

Will weather impact your event? He or she will also act as the representative for your event, meaning the individual will pitch fundraising ideas to your nonprofit’s board of directors to get the green light to start planning. Keep holidays in mind as well as national or local events, from award shows to sports games.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2013

Social media is like a cocktail party and it’s your job to help everyone create more real world impact. For over a decade Allyson has helped non-profit organizations and political campaigns create dynamic and award-winning websites and online marketing and recruitment campaigns. Register here to get the party started!

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

Did you hit the green button? I’m really talking about the nonprofit that you work for, what strengths or what weaknesses can you conceive of that would impact your working with major donors? They want to fully understand the impact of their giving. Valerie: Okay. Let me see if I can share mine. Are we there yet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Here's just three people/content connections on this topic that I found from Technorati search: A search on "tags" lead me directly to a YouTube channel from the Youth Health Alliance and a series of youth-created videos on nutrition, including the one above that explains why it is better to drink green tea versus software drinks.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

This is politics – we need the good and the bad; the cyber army, the 10,000 bloggers claimed to be trained by the national guard, etc. In Iran the regime hasn’t yet shown itself to be as savvy as the green movement. I think underlying slacktivism isn’t enough – you can’t just turn your profile green.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And then another program is Reclaim the Future, which is one our newest projects, that is addressing green-color jobs and building opportunities for low-income people, formerly convicted people, and communities of color in this new green economy. How's that going to impact our work next year? Where do we want to be in 30 years?

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