Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 8, 2024

And away from work, Kahn forecasts that AI will : Revamp education, meaning children around the world can have personal, portable tutors. His writing on a range of subjects has also appeared in The New York Times , Newsweek , The Atlantic , Smithsonian magazine, The Boston Globe , The New Republic , and Slate.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Black Cat Rescue is a no-kill cat rescue organization in Boston that strives to change those odds for black cats, who face unique obstacles when trying to get adopted. Children's Literacy Initiative. We're proud to work with Audubon on Halloween and beyond - check out the work Audubon is doing with EveryAction throughout the year.

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MAY 25, 2021

Sahaj Kohli, founder of Brown Girl Therapy , centers her education efforts and therapy practice on children of immigrants. Kohli notes that while work, identity and worth are often intertwined for many people, children of immigrants can face unique challenges as a result of their upbringing.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 26, 2024

A Boston University student told Input that photo dumps are a “personal scrapbook,” saying, “posting what I want takes stress and pressure out of posting on social media.” Despite dealing with something so heavy as grieving children, its social media presence is 10/10. Sure, it’s a curated post, but it’s meant to look low-effort.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 4, 2021

Read more about how tech is powering vaccine management and distribution for children and countries across the world. She received her undergraduate degree from Merrimack College and holds a Master of Business Administration from Boston University. About the Author. Courtney Murphy . Chief Operating Officer at CCA.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Anyone reading this blog that lives in the New England area may know that the symphony I was raised around is the Boston Symphony Orchestra. My youth was flooded by a series of Wednesday night rehearsals, regular BSO concerts, and multiple summer weekends spent at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony in Lenox, Massachusetts.

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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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AFP Blog

MAY 19, 2008

One Laptop, two systems - The Boston Globe: "THE GOAL of the nonprofit One Laptop per Child project has always been exciting: build a cheap, sturdy laptop and give it to poor children in developing countries to improve their educations.".

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

She has also received the advanced certificate designation from the Elizabeth Bishop Wine Studies Program at Boston University. Tom lives with his wife and two children in Upstate New York. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Project Angel Heart, Colorado AIDS Project and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In only six months, more than 120,000 donors – from children to recovering alcoholics – sent in donations of typically less than a $1. He was previously a reporter for the Boston Herald and the Boston Business Journal, and has written frequently on issues impacting the nonprofit industry. The resulting total reached $102,000.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Doing a Data Dive to Find Data About Children and Families. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Integrated Services and Emerging Technologies for Nonprofits. Monday, May 1, 2017. Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Thursday, May 25, 2017.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums? Why the uniformity?

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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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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2017

Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition — Boston. The organization provides services to assist women and families with children in maintaining and improving their health in the face of HIV/AIDS. The organization serves more than 500 women and children each year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Working on a 50-page handwritten report (with illustrations) at the end of the school year so I could go on a class field trip to Boston, and visit one of my favorite places, the Mapparium. If I had children, I'd sign them up too. and figuring out how I would get it done on my own time. 1 'leadership competency' of the future."

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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. He took my concern seriously. We've had a nice little email chat. He started his reply with "Oy vey.

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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. He took my concern seriously. We've had a nice little email chat. He started his reply with "Oy vey." " He's a mensch.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

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. This may sound obvious, but the rhetoric about cultural organizations working in the social sphere often ignores our inherent differences.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

She uses every avenue on the World Wide Web to raise funds for Cambodian children. A one-time employee of the Boston Symphony, she plunged into the Internet in the early 1990s. She started tapping friends—and friends of friends—through her blog while adopting two Cambodian children in 2000. through the Sharing Foundation.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 24, 2009

Steve's Blogathon fundraising for The Montreal Children's Hospital (Autism Clinic) 19 pledges totaling $1,201.18 Scheherazade in Blue Jeans fundraising for Boston Area Rape Crisis Center 43 pledges totaling $982.24 end the silence fundraising for RAINN 39 pledges totaling $1,153.00

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Hungry children in Brazil? Elderly shut-ins in Boston? Enslaved children in the far east? Your donors want information – solid, meaningful information about what you are doing with their money and who you are helping. Is it the little boy down the street? Artists in your community? Families in need all over the world?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Yarin lives near Boston, Massachusetts with his fiancée and two children. Do you provide on-site speaking at companies interested in compliance and risk management? Yarin : Yes 9. When will your book be published? Yarin : I hope to have it published within the coming year.

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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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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. Imogen Heap Info For Remixers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2006

I came across a study by the American Academy of Pediatrics that argues for the essential role of play in the healthy mental, physical, and social/emotional development of a child referred to in a recent editorial in the Boston Globe titled "The Hidden Power of Play" and elsewhere.

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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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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

JUNE 23, 2006

Annette Kramer, Learning Lab Blog The Collaborative Technologies Conference sponsored by CMP took place in Boston this past week. Very similar work to the Sharing Foundation that works in Cambodia with children - disclosure- I'm on the board). I also met Lorretta Donovan, President of Worksmarts, and an appreciative inquiry guru.

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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. She described it as, "a green story about preserving the Earth and protecting the animals.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2020

My last trip was to Boston and I returned home on March 12. If you are on your own, set children up in a nearby room with something quiet (like LEGOs) and Netflix. 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.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2012

We've already heard from one museum--the Boston Children's Museum--where they are experimenting with a "V.I.F." We'll go from research to prototyping to final design from now until early summer of 2013. We'd love to have you join us as contributors to the Loyalty Lab blog or just follow along and comment on our progress.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

” Charity Case says that in 2009, Save the Children spent $3.3 In 2010, Disney spent 582 times more than that on advertising or as Pallotta puts it more bluntly: “Save the Children 1. Entertain the Children 582.” million on advertising.

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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. But in many places around the world, children can't attend school because there isn't a school building, teachers, or supplies. One of my favorites is the computer recycling group, FreeGeek. May: When I think of May, I think of Mother's Day.

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