Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

As a professional communicator, you face a smorgasbord of challenges online. American Literacy is Iffy. Despite the challenges you face as a content creator, there are some quick ways to improve your words and set your nonprofit apart from the herd. A ‘lede’ is the first sentence of a new story. What You’re Up Against.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. " Digital Democracy (Dd) was a prize winner in that challenge. Key Challenges in Working in Remote Areas. They begin by trying to understand the local challenges first.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The Discovery Center is a one-hour simulation in which groups of students (grade 5 and up) role play in a realistic, interactive environment. The students are each given roles on one of three teams--the Oval Office, a military command center, and a press room. The topic is the invasion of Grenada. You will make history.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

This week's Solutionary woman is Viet-Ly Nguyen, a former co-worker from Streetside Stories , who I interviewed for my Big Vision Podcast last winter. Streetside Stories is a San Francisco based arts education nonprofit that actually just started a blog , so give them a little link love!

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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. The more you challenge participants, the more driven they’ll be to succeed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. He also identifies the new literacies and skills -- and while he is talking about this in the context of children and education. Go read it. Judgment ???

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

As new marketing trends emerge and old ones fall away, it can be challenging to know what to prioritize when creating compelling auction marketing materials. Telling engaging stories about your nonprofit requires more than just broadcasting an overview of your mission and history to the world. Understand your audience.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

We saw the potential in this story and dispatched a reporter and photojournalist to interview the town's residents, write up a feature for our online newspaper, and create a photo essay. A month after the story was published, an email arrived from a writer at the New York Times who had discovered our feature and wanted to write it up.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are lots of ways to do peer-to-peer fundraisers, and holding events like a bike ride, a cook-off, or a “challenge” (insert first obligatory mention of the Ice Bucket Challenge) are some of the best ones. The possibilities for peer-to-peer fundraising events are nigh on endless, but here are nine of the most popular kinds: 1.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Abby Rosenheck: Urban sprouts is a school garden program where we support middle and high schools in San Francisco to build school gardens at their school, so the students grow, prepare, eat--the whole thing. Britt Bravo: What has been the biggest challenge of starting your own nonprofit? I mean, their teacher is amazing.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So I’m sure that all of you are saying, “Yes, that’s exactly why we’re here,” but the challenge becomes when we are working so hard to make a difference in the lives around us, a lot of times we just don’t, you know, know what we should be tracking or how we should be reporting. And for a good reason.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. Endangering Human Rights Activists. Wonderful stuff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2008

The America's Giving Challenge will be over in another ten days. Mon Chany's Story. s Khmer Literacy School has provided huge opportunity. His teacher, Ying So Ry, says Channy is a very attentive, hard working student, and she sees a bright future for him. Mon Chany is in the middle.

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