Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. The author of the book, Giving 2.0 , has just released all her teaching notes and syllabi, along with philanthropy library. I first heard Laura speak when she launched her book , Giving 2.0,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 27, 2014

They get frustrated and don’t want to read,” she says, “but access to digital books and reading technologies changed all that for Zach.” When our team last caught up with him, he was a busy student at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, rejoicing in his ability to read independently and reach his full potential.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Last year, bloggers big and small raised $270,000 to provide 65,000 students with the resources needed to learn. At Socialbrite, we’d like to call on our readers to support students in public school classrooms in low-income areas. The cool part?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Suddenly I had thousands upon thousands of books available to me,” he says, “at a price I could afford, in a format I could read independently. I could request books not already in the collection, and sometimes my wish would be granted. And the best part? I began a reading binge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

The Lavelle Fund exemplifies the tremendous social return that bold philanthropy can create. Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. Even in the United States, this was true of probably a quarter of our student users.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

Braille books saved her from isolation and she became an insatiable reader. However, she soon encountered the frustrating “accessible book famine” because very few books available were available in Braille. Sophia and her family were left confused and concerned about her future in the classroom. Data is now a core resource.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I was delighted when Ron Schultz invited me to collaborate with him on his latest book Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy. I look forward to continuing the conversation the book has opened. Converting and delivering these accessible books was expensive and time consuming.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The Global Literacy team, led by VP & General Manager Betsy Beaumon, just celebrated our latest major milestones: serving 300,000 members, the majority of whom are American students with disabilities, and offering 250,000 accessible books on the virtual shelves of our library. What about yet another order of magnitude beyond that?

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

To celebrate my very first blog post, I decided to be brave: I will introduce an emgerging concept: “Attention Philanthropy” (AP). I define AP as philanthropy that is primarily concerned with getting donors and supporters to pay attention to a certain cause. These books have given him a large and intense fan base.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” They provide free web analytics consulting to non-profits and NGOs around the world by matching analytics professionals, students, and charities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 4, 2015

Tomorrow is an exciting day for our Bookshare online library for students with dyslexia or visual impairments. We love reading, and we know how important being able to read a book is to educational and employment opportunity.

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2024

Online librarian consultations : Receive real-time, personalized assistance from our in-house experts on philanthropy, nonprofit management, and fundraising. Audiobook and e-book library : Access thousands of fundraising- and nonprofit-related e-books and audiobooks, expertly curated by Candid’s librarians.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

In fact, some participants in the group mentioned using MBA students from local universities to assist with data collection. They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students. Leap of Reason Books (Free download).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Alongside dozens of 9-year-old Kenyans in discarded party dresses, I worked diligently for months to organize the books. A group of graduate students from Berkeley were coming to Kenya. A kind acquaintance put us in touch, suggesting the students might be able to carry some things for us to Kenya. Bring them the books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

For example, instead of a 10X return to investors, we’re looking for a 10X reduction in the cost of delivering a social good unit—say, an accessible book to a student with a print disability, or a gallon of clean water to an underserved community in a developing country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

By luck, I was introduced by my roommate’s father’s friend’s colleague to a scholarship program that supported low-income students of color complete college (networks have a way of being pretty darn powerful). Networks Organizational Culture Philanthropy' Paying it forward: ImpactRising.org. Contact her at christi.tran@gmail.com.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2011

This is a question our faculty, staff, and student team asks frequently in our quest to meet our Center's mission to help build the capacity of the social sector for those who lead, manage, and support nonprofits. Through informal discussions we've had with stakeholders, it seems there are a few preferred sources of information.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2013

At the ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation , we encourage organizations to diversify funding across three primary sources: traditional philanthropy, government funding, and earned income. student safety. In the case of the third organization, book publishing is a longstanding.

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Bloomerang

MAY 20, 2021

Interested in philanthropy. . Important side note : He mentioned that we was interested in philanthropy and so I took his word for it. It was one of the biggest and most important lessons I learned: not to judge a book by its cover. . Young people are weighed down by student loans and don’t give generously. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2013

Adam Grant gave an engaging presentation about his research on givers, summarizing a few of the big ideas in his book “ Give and Take.” He has prioritized who and why he wants to give: family, students, colleagues – and everyone else. Networks Philanthropy Research Studies' He has a trusted advisers.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

My hope is that we all—individuals, teachers, students, parents, schools, and government officials—honestly wrestle with this revolutionary change and recognize it as so much more than a “cheat tool.” Imagine empowering a teacher with generative AI to improve question-building workflows for online assessments and open-book evaluations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

My favorite historian, Peter Dobkin Hall , wrote a defining essay in one of his books that describes the "invention" of the nonprofit sector in the United States. The map for American English usage of "philanthropy" is below. Philanthropy" is roughly as common now as it was 200 years ago. Look at it this way.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Creative Ladies Planning the Year Ahead on Jamie Ridler Studios Wish on Create Your Own Beautiful Holiday Poetry Book by Tara Sophia Mohr I'm 42 and Full of Gratitude and Appreciation on SurfPrayLove Unfun Decisions: Scraping Bottom by Gwen Bell Forget Your Perfect Offering by Gwen Bell Creating With Kids :: Still Shots from Goddess Guide Book Something (..)

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Rob Reich: Big philanthropy is an exercise of power, and wherever there is concentrated power in a democratic society, the civic attitude toward it should be scrutiny, not gratitude. The book he recently coauthored provides a scathing critique of the sector. Amy Costello: Welcome to Tiny Spark , a podcast of the Nonprofit Quarterly.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2013

Join Derrick Feldmann, co-author of the new book Cause for Change: The Why and How of Nonprofit Millennial Engagement , to discuss how Millennials are transforming philanthropy and engagement with social issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2014

The first is The Giving Day Play books which a collective archive of formally documented processes, examples, check lists, and case studies planning and hosting giving days. On Colorado Gives Day, the foundation recruited five teams of college students to stand on corners and raise awareness—providing a physical presence in the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

She told the story of “ Poop_Strong ” who describes himself in his Twitter profile as “31 year-old sustainability PhD student fighting Stage IV colon cancer. Sara described another type of free agent or networked individual, the consumer activist.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the Blackbaud Institute’s incredible npExpert free e-book, The Great Reset: Moving Into the New Normal with Intention , Dr. Una Osili opens with some key findings from the last year of fundraising data compiled by the Lilly School of Philanthropy. Most notable is that in a recent survey of nonprofit organizations, 80.5%

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Read Terri Wogan ''s , " Fast Lane Philanthropy ". A Phoenix native, he enjoys any and all activities that empower and enrich the city, particularly the nonprofit sector. Like this article? Get another! Fast Pitch Sentari Minor'

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

The most surprising group to create, share and promote original content is middle and high school students. The story was tied into a comic book narrative and like Interro-bang, players were encourage to share their exploits via social media.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

By providing students with funds for school supplies, coats, eye care, class trips, test fees, and athletic gear, InvestED has encouraged over 16,500 youngsters to stay in school in the state of Washington. million books per year. It has grown into an organization that meets the needs of over 1,500 student athletes annually.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

Mary Nemerov, chief philanthropy officer at the California Academy of Sciences, told us they were able to reach many more times the normal students they engage with in a typical year — something that was especially critical when so many kids were out of school and missing out on traditional learning experiences.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

LinkedIn Learning, Masterclass, PBS, we’re uploading thousands of books from Gutenberg. ” Build products that improve the lives of inmates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I teach a seminar course on integrated social media strategy for international nonprofits and a session for students to learn how they leverage their professional networks for career and learning in a flexible classroom space. I also had was a guest lecturer for a Berkeley MBA Class on networks and New School for Public Engagement.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Whether you’re a nonprofit trying to raise funds or a business looking to expand its corporate philanthropy programs, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know about corporate giving. Some companies will aid students by paying for their tuition, books, living expenses, food, and other associated costs.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Andrew has also watched as we have supported Newman University , my alma mater to provide scholarship and other assistance to students. We often carry socks filled with water and energy bars to give to the homeless on Austin’s streets. We also give to our parish. This was a great lesson for the 46-year old in the room.

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Achieve

MARCH 18, 2024

Foundations and corporate philanthropy programs receive floods of applications for new grant opportunities. Her book, How to Write a Grant: Become a Grant Writing Unicorn, is a bestseller for nonprofit fundraising and grants. Why Does Storytelling Matter for Grant Writers?

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