Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Centers for Disease Control and the University of Georgia’s New Media Institute. In one day, more than 20 students from 6 universities and five AIDS organizations hit the streets with only cellphone video cameras to produce 8 short video messages to encourage youth to be tested for HIV. Organization(s) : The U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Azzam whose team had won 3rd place in the Microsoft’s Imagine Cup , a three-year, $3 million competitive grant program for student technology and social entrepreneurs. I met Dina Masri, a talented engineering student and change maker at the University in Jordan.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

.) — An online wishlist, planning tool and retailer for cancer patients and their supporters. Phood (Boulder) — A startup digitizing university student cards so they can be used payments in various online services. Paerpay (Boston) — A contactless payment platform that doesn’t require additional hardware or app downloads.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

Over the next two months, Pedro Domingos, a professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and Michael Lissack, a Wall Street whistleblower turned admitted harasser , promoted the narrative that Gebru’s work was “advocacy disguised as science.” Domingos had been interested in similar issues at the University of Washington.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

After graduating with a BFA in drama & music from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ellen spent ten years bringing joy to audiences nightly as one of only ten lead performers in the longest running musical revue in the world—San Francisco’s “Beach Blanket Babylon.” You were born to do this!”

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But TikTok isn’t creating the distress these teens feel, says pediatric psychologist Allison Libby , an associate clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco. In 2011, for example, as many as 20 teenagers in upstate New York, almost all of them students in the same school, suddenly developed similar tremors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

The chapter begins with the story of how I used Twitter in July 07 to raise money for the Cambodian bloggers conference ( now Cambodians are tweeting ), how Connie Reece raised thousands of dollars to support breast cancer, Stacey Monk's Tweetsgiving , Twestival , and the entrance of large nonprofits into the Twittersphere.

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sgEngage

JUNE 16, 2022

Donor restricted funds make up a large part of the resources for charitable foundations associated with parent institutions, such as for-profit hospitals, public school systems, and private universities without a 501(c)(3). Public school education foundations manage multiple buckets across individual schools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine, Duke University and the virtual network of HASTAC, announced its second annual open-call competition that will provide $2 million in awards to innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning. A few days ago, the John D. and Catherine T.

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VisionLink

OCTOBER 5, 2011

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I never graduated from college. So why did I drop out?

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

Prior to joining Feeding America, Liz provided strategic marketing and fundraising consulting to national nonprofit organizations such as the American Red Cross, National Multiple Sclerosis Society and Canadian Cancer Society at Convio. Liz serves on the committee for Education and Conference Development for the DMANF Advisory Board.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2024

When asked what you do, don’t tell me you’re an arts organization, social services agency, university, hospital foundation, school, international aid organization, animal rescue mission, environmental nonprofit, mutual aid society, civil rights group, or any other category of service. A protagonist is a single individual, not a group.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

Betsy Rolland of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Asia Cohort Consortium , a group tasked with wrangling and consolidating data from half a dozen Asian countries, is wrestling with these issues every day in her work. how do you evaluate the health significance of "one glass of rice wine per day" in China vs. Japan?).

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Forum One

APRIL 27, 2009

Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the 6th annual global health conference sponsored by a dynamic young group called Unite for Site at Yale University. He also encouraged the audience--comprised largely of Yale students--to travel to places that make you uncomfortable as a way to experience the world.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 21, 2009

attending Mass Comm week at Texas State University and of course checked out the Social Media for Social Good panel presented by Kerri Qunell, VP of Communications at Capital Area Food Bank , David Neff, Director of Web, Film and Interactive at American Cancer Society , and Jordan Viator, Interactive Communications Manager at Convio.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As vacations end, students return to school, and the final days of summer approach, your nonprofit is busy gearing up for your year-end fundraising strategy. Nick received a BA from The Johns Hopkins University. He also received an MBA from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. About the Author.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. students at Stanford University.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 26, 2007

Another major concern I have with Starbucks’ use of rBGH is that there are potential cancer risks from this genetically engineered hormone. In numerous studies, too much IGF-1 is associated with higher rates of breast, prostate, colon, and lung cancer in humans. rBGH increases another hormone in cows and cows’ milk, called IGF-1.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 1, 2016

The young Nebraskan is the son of a University of Nebraska basketball assistant coach, which quickly catalyzed the relationship between Avery and the Nebraska basketball team. Avery has become a little brother to not only the Nebraska basketball team, but surely the student section and perhaps the entire state of Nebraska.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

What if our child had cancer? As Parr points out, empathy is powerful because our innate ability and need to understand and connect with others – even we don’t know them personally. She asked 121 students to fill out a short survey in exchange for five dollars. Which one would people likely donate to?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

And I tell my students that Ill give to any of the worthy causes they pour their hearts into, but they have to ask me in person (not on Facebook)! Currently (on my lowly grad student budget), I only give money to one nonprofit org. I like to be informed of what the organization is doing, but I dont want mail solicitations. Central Ave.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As vacations end, students return to school, and the final days of summer approach, your nonprofit is busy gearing up for your year-end fundraising strategy. Nick received a BA from The Johns Hopkins University. He also received an MBA from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. About the Author.

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

Although I belong to a Synagogue, I am stuck at home recovering from cancer treatments. This is the first time in years that, as I sat at home, I felt like I was reaching out to the Universe of which we are all a part. Joel Meltze. It is a blessing to be able to participate in services from home. Thank you so much for doing this.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Your year-end gift helps others find life after cancer. Students Need Your Help to Help Others. Happy Holidays from Wake Forest University. Hurry – just 2 days left. This can’t keep happening to dogs! There’s still time to reduce your taxes & double your impact! Double Your Impact Today! Feet in the water.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Do Good Well is written by Nathaniel Whittemore who is the founding director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University. The Stupid Cancer Blog is written by Matthew Zachary who founded the social enterprise I'm Too Young for This." The blog is about citizen-led social change efforts. $5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

A STAT report found that Watson Health, IBM’s beleaguered life sciences division, often gave poor and unsafe cancer treatment advice because the platform’s models were trained using erroneous, synthetic patient records rather than real data. ” Image Credits: Synthesis AI.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

We love how quickly orgs like Stand Up 2 Cancer can turn these out on Instagram. Lung Cancer Foundation of America does this with their #LivingWithLungCancer series, highlighting the human face of a disease they’re working to cure. Check out our newest Whole Whale University course ! How does your content support this?

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Futurism

MARCH 19, 2025

Up in Canada, students have developed an incredible new way to synthesize drugs on plants and they're using Ozempic as their test case. On their award-winning " Phytogene " website, the U Ottowa students explained that essentially, the N. benthamiana plant acts as a copy machine for whatever genetic sequence they plug into it.

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Whole Whale

MAY 1, 2024

We love how quickly orgs like Stand Up 2 Cancer can turn these out on Instagram. Lung Cancer Foundation of America does this with their #LivingWithLungCancer series, highlighting the human face of a disease they’re working to cure. Check out our newest Whole Whale University course ! How does your content support this?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

It’s set up a women’s leadership institute at the University of Texas, Austin. It has funded more than 40,000 hours of breast cancer research. Speaking to Student Athletes at the Kendra Scott Center at UT Austin [Photo: Kendra Scott] Scott says she’s only getting started.

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Recode by Vox

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The skeptics case Its a kind of meta-mimicry, Shannon Vallor , a philosopher of technology at the University of Edinburgh, told me when OpenAIs o1 came out in September. Heres a classic example : Researchers trained an AI vision model to analyze photos for skin cancer. Youve got different types of students.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 14, 2021

In the middle of his epic cancer battle, John Haydon said to me that he couldn’t “afford the luxury of a negative thought.” Our students and clients are experiencing their greatest success through the power of increased donor segmentation. Practice meditation. Engage in yoga or vigorous physical activity daily.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

34 The Risks of AI and Digital Health Ensuring universal accessibility remains challenging indeed, with complex interfaces and language barriers hindering inclusion, particularly for marginalized groups.35 These students made an app for that, Harvard T.H. Zhouxiao Li et al., Anna Smak Gregoor et al., 23 (November 2023): 9498.

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Futurism

MARCH 5, 2025

Instead, as the Adam Mickiewicz University researchers found when reviewing related studies for their paper for the journal Humanities and Social Sciences Communication , this pseudoscientific "condition" appears to be the result of social contagion spread by misinformation campaigns.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 28, 2025

President Donald Trump’s administration has been using the funding spigot to seek compliance with his agenda, cutting off money to schools including Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. All the while, universities across the country are navigating cuts to grants for research institutions.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 30, 2025

Department of Justice on behalf of tobacco giant Phillip Morris when it was sued for covering up and undermining the link between smoking and cancer. The firm led legal defense for the Sackler family against lawsuits for their role in the nations opioid crisis. It fought the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

“This event begins an intensive round of outreach to the GOP, calling on them to take advantage of this unique moment to defund the abortion industry,” Students for Life, the national antiabortion group organizing the event, said in a statement.

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