Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Now I am lucky if I can get through a first chapter much less read an entire book in less than 6 months. My mind wanders after a couple of paragraphs even when reading New York Times Bestsellers. Before Myspace then Facebook and then Twitter, I was a voracious reader. In 2013, I am focused on changing that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I love the chapter on “The Symptoms of Information Obesity” where he shares a persona based on his wife, Rosalyn Lemieux , that illustrates how too much information can warp our sense of time and other ways it can be toxic to our lives. His methods make use of some of the online software that helps you keep track of time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There are many examples of crowdsourcing techniques used by nonprofits and foundations and The Networked Nonprofit devoted an entire chapter to the topic. The results are greater than an individual or organization could accomplish alone. Does crowdsourcing enhance or bring value to face-to-face conferences? Where is it most useful?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2011

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). If you take a look at Bruce Lesley’s Twitter stream , you will see that he is curating information on public policies impacting children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2013

Every time you share a relay post on Facebook, Twitter, or email or donate $5 or more as part of the relay, a $5 donation (up to $8,000 per day) will be donated by Johnson & Johnson and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to one of four initiatives that are helping women and children lead healthy and happy lives.

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Candid

APRIL 14, 2022

Care and protection of children account for 26% of grant dollars. Children. The care and protection of children account for 30% of grants and 26% of dollar value. We have identified 540 grants worth $667,728,963 and 122 pledges worth $653,512,350 as of April 1. Women and girls account for 3% of grant dollars. Population.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Photo by Pratham Books: Snapshots from Bookaroo 2010 : Children's Literature Festival. Pratham Books is a non-profit children’s book publisher based in India and our mission, while simple, is also rather audacious – “A Book in Every Child’s Hand”.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Immediately upon reading the first two chapters of the book and completing the exercises that are part of Chapter Two a reader will have a much better sense of his or her skills and competencies, and that of course contributes to the overall sense of certainty which is really the definition of competence.

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DipJar

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Here are two examples that highlight December fundraising efforts to date: Make-A-Wish Iowa – For more than 35 years, the Iowa chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation has been helping children with critical illnesses – and the families and care teams that support them – create bright memories in hard times.

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Kindful

MARCH 1, 2021

Mission: The mission of Crossroads for Women is to provide comprehensive, integrated services to empower women emerging from incarceration to achieve safe, healthy, and fulfilling lives in the community, for themselves and their children. Impacting: Incarceration and addiction. Headquarters in: Albuquerque, NM. Become a monthly donor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

It’s advice most often dispensed to discourage children from squandering their birthday money, but it is perhaps just as appropriate in this context. Some recently completed projects include: • A new business card design for the Surfrider Foundation’s Portland Chapter. • They say, “a penny saved is a penny earned”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. The project supports a cohort of children’s health care insurance advocates with monthly peer calls, a face-to-face annual workshop, and expert one-on-one coaching from SpitFire coaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

The Glasspocket’s blog has a post from Claire Gibbons, a senior program officer in the Research & Evaluation Unit at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that illustrates or describes the change. (KD Paine and I devoted an entire chapter to this topic in our forthcoming book , Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

at the Providence Cancer Center for the Alaska Chapter of PRSA. I’m doing various other trainings, book parties, etc. Today, I will be speaking at The Foraker Group Leadership Summit on September 20 at 3:30 p.m., and will be giving a free talk about themes from The Networked Nonprofit on September 20 at 5:30 p.m. Welcome To Alaska.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic ushered in a new chapter for virtual learning, giving a boost of attention to existing tools and spurring the creation of new services and use cases as students of all ages were ordered to stay home and stay out of classrooms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

TSF has helped support a poor school named Beng Krom School, with 595 grammar school children on the far side of the Mekong. s children really need three latrines to expand from the two they have for all their children and teachers. Now Beng Krom???s

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Reading a chapter of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase dramatically (OK, overly dramatically) into a tape recorder. If I had children, I'd sign them up too. Kim found creativity scores had been steadily rising, just like IQ scores, until 1990. Since then, creativity scores have consistently inched downward." Wish by me (: Share

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Many years ago before the digital cameras and children, my husband used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography. Black-Crowned Night Heron. The product-driven learning is mindful, mostly linear, and focused.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report captures a conundrum in measuring social change movements or networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Within the book’s 10 chapters, he covers the topics of ownership , mindset , identity , growth , engagement , leadership and more. And of them, some are Generation X, approaching it as more of a mentoring opportunity or wanting to leave a resource for their children. Chapter 2 in Stand Out! Book Club Experience" as well.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Unlike other measures such as the FPL’s one-size-fits-all model, the Standard calculates household costs not just by the size of the family and the number of children, but also by age of the children, as some costs, particularly child care and food, differ dramatically by age. Like this article? Get another!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2021

Nathan Magnuson Within the book's 10 chapters, he covers the topics of: ownership mindset identity growth engagement leadership and more Magnuson kindly shared with me earlier this year these additional insights about his book: Question: What inspired you to write your new book, Stand Out!? Question: Chapter 2 in Stand Out!

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Maryland Coalition for Inclusive Education is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the success of all children and youth in their school communities. They took this a step further and included images of the children and families that benefitted from their care in 2020. Who they are. UrbanPromise Charlotte’s Holiday Campaign.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

These guys are rocking the nptech social media world: Adeeb Khan, American Red Cross Mile High Chapter, redcrossdenver. Dawn Crawford, Colorado Children's Immunization Coalition, dawnacrawford. While I'm at it here, I want to mention some fabulous co-panelists. Alyssa Kopf, Community Shares, Community Shares Fan Page.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Camp Kesem empowers college students across the United States to create a free, life-changing one-week summer camp experience for children affected by a parent’s cancer. Using the hashtag #bigkidsgive, they built social buzz around the fun camp experience given to children affected by a parent’s cancer.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Digital Marketing Plan Chapters. Chapter 1: Digital Marketing Plan. Chapter 2: Nonprofit Marketing Strategy. Chapter 3: Digital Promotion Strategies. Chapter 4: Digital Marketing Process. Chapter 4: SEO For Nonprofits. You might recall us going into detail in chapter 3: Digital Promotion Strategies.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2006

Project Linus coordinates volunteers to sew, knit and quilt handmade blankets for seriously ill and traumatized children. You can find a chapter near you here. children chimpanzees blankets image via www.petroglyphsnm.org I heard about Project Linus through an episode of the 501(c)3cast.

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See3

APRIL 9, 2024

All of these supporters play a critical role in Make-A-Wish’s mission to grant wishes to children living with life-altering illnesses, and they all experience the impact of Make-A-Wish differently. We know that their insights will provide valuable nuance to these target audiences and help to make them more accurate on a chapter level.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 18, 2009

I was excited to see that Cristi Hegranes of the Press Institute for Women in the Developing World , who I interviewed in early 2008 , was included in the Political Activism chapter. The Youth and Education chapter was my personal favorite.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

There’s a lot to like about this intergenerational calling device, but Amazon is a bit bossy Amazon’s latest attempt to entertain your children is an innovative effort that combines an interactive projector with Amazon Kids Plus’ excellent catalog of child-friendly content.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

For example, Ginna, the Executive Director of the nonprofit Pura Vida Partners , encourages Pura Vida supporters to create a giving circle where everyone comes together to drink Pura Vida coffee and donate $35 each towards scholarships for children living in coffee growing communities. BB: What are your future goals for Dining for Women?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 8, 2022

This schedule was created with the intention of allowing children in farming families to be home to help out during the planting and harvesting seasons in our primarily agricultural society. Teach for America (TFA) is another nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that all children have equal access to a good education. Teach for America.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 16, 2013

He was also the recipient of that organization’s Greater Arizona Chapter Outstanding Executive Award in 2002. John and his wife Sheila have three children, and live in north Phoenix. Among his current clients is Maggie's Place, for whom he is serving as interim executive director. Like this article?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2011

I spent an (early) morning today with the local chapter of Kiwanis that got me thinking about this question again. At the Indianapolis Children's Museum, they have a "closing parade" every day to usher (potentially upset) children and families out the door. There are staff in plush costumes.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

The Pennsylvania and Delaware Chapter released a strategic plan for 2022-2024 that illustrates how the chapter will take local actions to support the overarching mission. Critically, it includes information about how the chapter will scale up its conservation efforts and how donors, partners, and volunteers can support each effort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

It takes time, but does show results as the comments on the original Mashable post seem to indicate: Two years ago The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada established a presence on Facebook and incorporated guidelines for our Chapters to establish their local groups. I used a cli.gs link [link] so I could track traffic to the link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

All the proceeds from the sale of this book (less printing and shipping) go to Variety, the Children???s Nick Rice , one of my blog readers, contributed a chapter. And in the spirit of conversation, you can follow-up and extend your interest in the topics covered in the book at the Age of Conversation blog ??? AdAge review here.

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