Connection Cafe

MARCH 7, 2017

Women’s and girls’ empowerment is a sweeping topic, defined and shaped by family beliefs and cultural norms in the community and country where one lives. Some people associate the empowerment of women and girls primarily with challenges faced in communities where poverty and lack of access to education determine one’s level of empowerment.

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Empowerment Help Children Culture 55

Candid

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Latinx nonprofit staff need a unique sense of familia , safety, and empowerment that speaks to our experience with giving, money, womens leadership, and more. Ive heard again and again from members that bringing in the board has been game-changing for their organization and its fundraising. They dont look further.

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Training Train Fundraising Support 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Photo by Trav Williams.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 127

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Take for example deploying 200 sensors throughout the Brazilian rainforest to measure and visualize the effects of climate change. One theme he touched on that resonated throughout the day is how Microsoft is working with networks and partners to leverage it’s financial, technical, and social change commitment.

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Network Technology Change Social 105

sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

Global Empowerment Mission created a banner of short videos on their website and social media channels, highlighting their hands-on work with Los Angeles residents displaced by the 2025 wildfires. In a disaster, temporary housing, pop-up veterinary care, a hot meal, use of a laundry room, or a ride to the next county can be life-changing.

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Disaster Money Los Angeles Fundraising 95

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 11, 2012

How You Will Change the World with Social Networking Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and the author of Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking. It was much more important for people to be sharing the stories with each other for the traffic to blow up really, really fast." Deanna Zandt, author, Share This!

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Social Network Share Network Change 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

I recently learned about an nonprofit organization in India dedicated to using video to help alleviate poverty and accelerate social change in the developing world. In looking at some of the project examples , I found several that focus on women's empowerment and rights in India. The organization is called Video Volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

“Anyone who works for the State Department knows that they work for women and for the advancement and empowerment of women,” said Alec Ross , Secretary Clinton’s Special Advisor for Innovation, with pride at the opening of TechCamp Tel Aviv. She shares her thoughts and experience of Internet usage for social change on her blog.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING.

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Game Change Classroom Awareness 81

Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The prize honors social innovators under age 40 who “show creativity, commitment, and extraordinary accomplishment in advancing positive social change” and awards $100,000 to each prize winner split in half between the winner and the organization they are supporting. Winning Combinations.

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Award Social Change Journal 62

Candid

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Yet long-established organizations often struggle to lead and reinvigorate multigenerational stakeholders—activists, board members, funders, and coalition partners—while keeping up with changing contexts. In our case, we found a desire for peer support, community bonding, and empowerment. How can the campaigns best meet their needs?

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Generation Organization Campaign Influence 133

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2008

So, to change the name we need to: Come up with a new name. Make the changes: logo. change slideshare group name. change the name of the google group. change the name of the google group. I am hoping that once we change domains, all links the wiki will automatically redirect. Change Your Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2007

So, you can imagine my delight in discovering this fabulous photography site called Collective Lens: Photography for Social Change. Or check out the photos from Kathy Adams who runs Empowerment International and has been sharing photos from Nicaragua and Costa Rica that show the impact of her organization's work.

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Photography Costa Rica Change Social 50

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. It is our hope, as funders, that financially resourcing a movement, an organization, or an individual can lead to positive change.

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Participatory Evaluation Grant Philanthropy 112

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Like a farmer who invests love and labor day after day watching her/his fields slowly yield beautiful fruits and vegetables, community developers must tend to their community and build relationships through thoughtful interactions, valuable content, and empowerment methods. We find solace in our daily routines.

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Web Bookmarking Social Media Gift 111

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The important thing to remember is that you have the power to change the mindsets that aren’t serving you. The first step in changing something is understanding it. You might resist change, compare yourself to others, and remain stuck where you are. . Understanding The Victim, The Survivor, and The Thriver Mindsets.

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Community Nonprofit Script Empowerment 114

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support. Second, Empowerment.

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Teach Support Technology Empowerment 100

Nimble AMS

JULY 12, 2023

A nd learn volunteer empowerment strategies to try out at your organization! Listen to your member volunt eers and share about how you’ll make changes to your program. When your volunteers see how you plan to update your volu nteer program based on their suggestions, they’ll be more likely to offer future fee dback.

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Volunteer Program Tips Mentoring 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2011

Empowerment — The hardest of all forms of social media strategy, empowerment assumes that the organization will commit to building a far flung community. I went straight to the strategy and measurement chapters.

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Social Media Empowerment Chapter Measure 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

You can cast your ballot for the projects that you think most effectively use the social web for social change. Prevent Human Trafficking Using Technology To Tell Stories of Empowerment and Successful Micro Philthanthropy. Games for Change. The complete list of projects can be found here. Open Source, Open Standards Video.

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Netsquared Project Technology Change 50

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Change Teen Museum Arts 45

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 9, 2012

Change equals growth, not pain. Technology offers empowerment, not automation. A company is a community, not a machine. Management is service, not control. My employees are my peers, not my children. Motivation comes from vision, not from fear. Work should be fun, not mere toil.

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Empowerment Children Demonstration Fun 75

Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 20, 2006

Believing that social change is possible is the beginning. Realizing that you yourself can effect such change will lead you to clarify your vision and identify the skills you need to prepare the ground and plant the seeds of change.--Anne Image via www.paradigmfound.org women social change anne firth murray

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

But, this wasn’t a just a tourist trip, I was on a mission to see technology social change projects in action and better understand how technology can impact social on the ground in rural areas with limited connectivity and resources.

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Social India Homeless Director 127

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

If knowledge is power, your strategy is the catalyst that allows for dynamic change within the donor experience. Culture focuses on empowerment, excellence, and gratitude to help define your organization’s interactions with donors. Empowerment is hard to define, but when it’s not present in an organization, it shines brightly.

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Donor Experiment Retention Empowerment 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute published a new report called “ Connected Citizens &# that looks at the impact of networks on communities, and asks, what do these emerging networks mean for community change? The report describes three possible scenarios in detail and analyzes the impact for social change an philanthropy.

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Network Report Empowerment Philanthropy 106

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

.&# We’re trying to level the playing field by empowering individuals to change the world.&#. Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that’s really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment.

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Myspace Technology Causes Social Network 158

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

.&# We’re trying to level the playing field by empowering individuals to change the world.&#. Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that’s really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment.

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Myspace Technology Causes Social Network 158

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

According to the blog post: “Data and reports alone do not produce change,” said Charlotte Kahn, Senior Director of the Boston Indicators Project. To create change, data must lead to action. Why this resource? And community organizations can use data to illuminate the challenges they face.

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Data Nonprofit Literacy Boston 102

The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

This shift occurred due to the rapid pace of innovation with the onset of the Internet, the proliferation of information and the empowerment of consumers with a mind-numbing number of choices. Since this change in the OpenGraph, both products have seen their traffic decline. Paid advertising channels follow the same pattern.

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Build Channel San Francisco Product 150

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes. James Young, on the Connection Cafe, suggests that we think about constituent empowerment when we think about organizational websites. The Hack Artist suggests that it’s important to marry direct mail efforts and a web presence.

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Consultant Nonprofit Open Source Websites 124

NCE Social Media

MAY 18, 2009

Empowerment of niches communities and small businesses – It used to be that only in a city someone could find others with a shared interest in an area outside of popular culture. If these small groups can consistently create value, entertainment or inspiration they can easily become agents of change worldwide.

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Social Media Media Social Empowerment 100

Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 30, 2022

While many changes have been positive, others have been more challenging for both leaders and employees. A recent Harvard Business Review article on this topic says that “empowerment, engagement, and planning are critical. Nonprofits around the world are still figuring out what the workplaces of the future will look like.

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Survey Trend Change Nonprofit 59

Greater Giving

JANUARY 4, 2024

The Dynamics of Donation Drives Inclusivity and Empowerment At its core, a donation drive fosters inclusivity, inviting people from diverse backgrounds and walks of life to participate. It empowers individuals to be part of something greater than themselves, channeling their collective energy towards positive change.

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Donation Giving Change Social Media 52

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Images of Empowerment. To address this need, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, in partnership with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Getty Images, created Images of Empowerment. Images of Empowerment was created in 2015 and was extended in 2018. A starting point for change.”.

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Foundation Examples Digital Platform 85

The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 15, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Celebrating National Nonprofit Day: Honoring Leaders of Change August 17th isn’t just another day on the calendar; it’s National Nonprofit Day, a day to honor and recognize the monumental contributions of nonprofit organizations across the nation.

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Celebrate National Change Nonprofit 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Under the theme “Achieving Our Vision through Empowerment and Partnerships,” this was the first-ever combined General Assembly of both WBU and the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment ( ICEVI ), another world-class organization in the field. The November 2012 General Assembly took place in Bangkok, Thailand.

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