Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Volunteers who do a chapter's worth of image descriptions for a student textbook will get their day pass. I just found out that our Bookshare volunteers can sign up to get a free day at a Disney park. Just put in our zip code "94306" at the foregoing link and you should see the opportunity there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

She is second year engineering student and by supporting her education she will have better economic opportunities. By purchasing a book , you will not only help your nonprofit improve its program impact, but you will changing the lives for young people in Cambodia. My family is sponsoring Keo Savon , who we met this summer in Cambodia.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2009

The talk was hosted by the Caltech Y, as well as by the local chapter of NetImpact and the alumni association, as part of their Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS). One of the board members from the Y, Gunilla Hastrup, heard me waxing eloquent about why I loved the Y as a student and why I still do.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

"The more confident, comfortable, and willing you are to perform these five basic skills , the more successful you can be as a new leader, team member, student, neighbor, volunteer, and any other newcomer role you decide to take on," explains Rollag. Each book chapter examines: Why the skill is important to your success.

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Qgiv

JULY 26, 2021

For universities, successful fundraising is dependent upon fostering these fond memories and making a lasting relationship with students. After all, today’s students will be tomorrow’s alumni, and alumni donations are one of the most important revenue streams a school has. It’s especially true for students!

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Real teaching involves sight and sound, but also the context of how something is delivered in the vernacular of how a student actually learns,” Ma said. With Numerade avoiding both live learning and Wolfram Alpha-style explainers that just give the answer to students, the company has turned to a third option: videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students. Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They help hundreds of students every year and 96% of their classes consist of students who are people of color and 67% of their students identify as women. National Society of Black Engineers The National Society of Black Engineers is a student-governed nonprofit organization with chapters at universities all over the world.

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CauseVox

JUNE 16, 2023

Fundraise for a New Fraternity or Sorority House Are you daydreaming about the day when your chapter can have a stunning new house? By creating teams based on different pledge classes, you can tap into the natural camaraderie and rivalry that exists within your chapter. The beauty of a Dance Marathon is its relatability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

Nonetheless, the best practices that Shel outlines at the end of the fundraising chapter will still hold true. Please share the book with Kathy and her students) Sue Anne Reed from. I love Shel's writing - he tells one great story after another. But he also has done his homework.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2013

KD Paine was my co-author on the second book and we worked with a developmental editor, Bill Paarlberg, who made us write 10 drafts per chapter – and while that was painful, it made the book much better (and my own writing skills improved). My family is sponsoring Keo Savon, who we met this summer in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2011

I’ve been heads down working on my next book about measurement and networked nonprofit s with KD Paine and our editor, Bill Paarlberg. One of the chapters is about measuring transparency. Substantial – the organization provides information that is truthful, complete, easy to understand, and reliable.

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CauseVox

MARCH 4, 2021

If you have a similar event or tradition that is a part of your chapter, consider adding a fundraising component. If you need to update your chapter house, fund scholarships, or complete a particular project, a fundraiser that’s dedicated to raising those funds will be quite effective. Competition. Information Is Power.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

The London startup currently has 400,000 paying subscribers who get all-you-can-read access to some 850,000 titles — textbooks, fiction and other literature that students are assigned as coursework at universities and other higher-learning institutions. Some 40% of the students that use Perlego are in the US. 18 in the U.S.)

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You can select a topic, such as math or literature, and even select a chapter in the syllabus. Revyze started with French high school students in their final year and is progressively expanding to other grades. On the second tab, you can explore the video library more granularly.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 9, 2022

A new chapter in the Star Wars saga begins as Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi returns from exile to take on the Imperial Inquisitors and his former student.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2024

The progression contains four units : Understanding Yourself Leading Yourself Understanding Others Leading Others Each chapter within the four units provides you: Hands-on Exercises Reflection Questions Post-Exercise Observations "By the time you finish the book, you'll have competed 22 exercises."

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2018

After the Parkland shooting, students didn’t wait for professional advocates to step in: they began talking to reporters immediately (one courageous student covered the shooting as he hid in a school closet ) and were soon planning media appearances about changing gun laws. What happens when the shoe is on the other foot?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

These barriers are precisely why I wanted to write ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World ” with KD Paine. In Chapter 3 of our book, we talk about the skills and practices of a data-informed organization. The reports shares the infographic below to illustrate the “Data Machine.”

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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. Mai-Lan provided their volunteer student leaders a toolkit with everything they needed for a success. Equip Volunteers for Success.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 8, 2022

For students, teachers, parents, and guardians across the nation, the arrival of August signals the end of summer vacation and the arrival of back-to-school season. From tissue boxes and hand sanitizer to markers and notebook paper, every classroom needs resources to support their students and that’s where you can help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Part of the meeting featured the students themselves sharing how they used these tools. The last chapter of the Networked Nonprofit is on networked governance. There were no examples – so the last chapter of the book is speculative, based on the best thinking of the people who have looked at networked governance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2014

On Colorado Gives Day, the foundation recruited five teams of college students to stand on corners and raise awareness—providing a physical presence in the community. In Kansas, for example, the Wichita Community Foundation reached out to a local tech alliance to help with social media updates.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Your work attracts new students, engages current students, and delights alumni and donors. Attracting Students. Potential students are excited and nervous all at once. As marketers, we’re always trying to stay on top of the latest trends—and college-age students are a discerning audience. Hold Students’ Attentions.

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

At a time when higher education is facing public funding cuts, changing demographics and a challenging student debt environment, institutions are facing an uphill battle to sustain enrollments and stay relevant. Declining trust and polarization is affecting national organizations’ ability to partner with their chapters.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The discussion goes on and whichever side your organization takes, there is the perception that there is a line of students just waiting to work long hours, with no pay to gain experience. as I call out to the line of students waiting out in the hall to be assigned. Students pay tuition for the class credits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I studied sociology, did a summer internship for the National Coalition for the Homeless , studied in Sweden for a semester (so that I could understand how their public policy worked), co-chaired Vassar''s Hunger Action chapter, and wrote a couple pieces about social-changey things for the student newspapers.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Their mission is to be the catalyst for the meaningful and successful inclusion of all students in their neighborhood schools. They accomplish this by providing individual student planning, professional learning and technical assistance, and school and system-wide transformation to make sure schools are for everyone.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 15, 2024

Selection of scholarship recipients : The majority of funds raised during my higher education career were to provide much-needed financial assistance to students in need. Ethics remains a top priority for AFP, serving as a guide and major asset to the 25,00+ members in some 240 chapters that have generated more than $1 trillion.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

It’s also offering cheaper access to certain groups, like students and nonprofits, if a request is emailed.). Chapter One Ventures and others. Right now, that’s a fairly steep $20 per month, but the goal is to bring that down over time and introduce a free plan. (It’s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

It comes from Digiactive , a five-month-old site devoted to digital activism and was written by Dan Schultz , a student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. (Hat tip: Jessica Dheere, Project Director, Social Media Exchange, Beirut) for pointing to this excellent resource - A DigiActive Introduction to Facebook Activism.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2020

"The more confident, comfortable, and willing you are to perform these five basic skills , the more successful you can be as a new leader, team member, student, neighbor, volunteer, and any other newcomer role you decide to take on," explains Rollag. Each book chapter examines: Why the skill is important to your success.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review). I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review). I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!)

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Open Source Database Open Chapter 100

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2018

You can now read all the chapters in The Art of Relevance for free online. You can still buy The Art of Relevance as a paperback, ebook, or audiobook--but you can also read any chapter, any time, online. You can also post comments on any chapter, adding your reactions and questions to the published content. It's finally here!

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

In a recent chapter on the history of the U.S. However, a student this summer pointed out another meaning of the term: in psychiatry , a neologism is a unique term coined and used by someone with a mental illness, evidence of a thought disorder. The point is that the term is new, and sectorness is likewise fairly new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Engaging with alumni networks is about connecting before alumni become alumni, while they are still students. Chapter 6 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit focusing on examples of how you measure engagement which begins with formulating your engagement model. Networked Nonprofit and Social Media Maturity of Practice.

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