Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Organization Mission: The California State Parks Foundation delivers innovative solutions for an excellent park system by facilitating park improvements, inspiring stewardship, supporting partners, advocating for sound policies, and connecting people to 280 state parks to enjoy now and for generations to come. Instagram: @energyleaders.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

It would be a natural fit for “Where’s My Water” to support clean water projects or crocodile conservation efforts, or for “Hay Day” to raise awareness about the importance of sustainable farming. Fortunately, we were eventually introduced to Playmob , a company that facilitates partnerships between game developers and charities.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

trillion, though that number likely includes some zombie valuations no longer pertinent in a more conservative investing market.). This is an issue for many fintech companies because it has been noted recently that much of their income was not software , but instead something else that software facilitated.

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Software Conservancy Newsletter Global 94

NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Competition is real in the marine conservation space. With just a year and about $1 million to prove our model, this pilot project (incubated by Ocean Conservancy) had no choice but to invent a new way to collaborate. It’s our mission to make the ocean more famous online. Blue” orgs get a small fraction of environment funding.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Let’s say you invest it conservatively and earn 4.8% Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications. Mastering online user experience and messaging. or $12,000. You generate!

Philanthropy 139

Philanthropy Culture Adopt Fundraising 139

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Last year we were honored to facilitate an emerging leadership program for a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Conservation and Science portfolio of grantees. Creating Next Generation Leaders and the Organizations to Support Them – by Beth Kanter and Kari Dunn Saratovsky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

During the facilitated discussion session at GEO’s National Conference in Seattle it was my great privilege to convene a group of brave pioneers. She has been working in philanthropy for over 15 years in community and private foundation settings focused on social justice, conservation and health and human services.

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Learning Knowledge Management Seattle Evaluation 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Or the Web site Microsoft Hohm that lets people calculate their energy footprint and get tips on conservation. Take for example deploying 200 sensors throughout the Brazilian rainforest to measure and visualize the effects of climate change. “ Unleashing Technology. View more presentations from Akhtarbad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

We had one person handling the technology and another person serving as moderator in the room. We had planned our presentation to include content delivery and facilitated discussion – and it worked. For the audio, we use a phone line that was fed into the AV system and wireless mic. Talk about multi-tasking.

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Tips Skype Los Angeles Audio 97

TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

It’s a respectable but conservative amount of users. ” What interested parties should know not to expect are event contracts around sports outcomes (“that’s very much like gambling, and we don’t [facilitate] that,” says Lopes Lara.).

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Money Marketing Turkey Social Media 104

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Lawyers and accountants tend to err on the conservative side, leading to a low failure rate of businesses but less “moonshot innovation,” shall we say. Zurich/Zug’s “Crypto Valley” is a global blockchain hotspot and is home to, among others, the Ethereum Foundation.

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Switzerland Germany Hype Environment 144

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. I appreciated the facilitation provided by Mukara Meredith who integrates universal principles of healing into a new model of leadership called Matrixworks.

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Program Reflection Social Media Instructional 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

” The article described fascinating new uses of sensors and other smart telecommunications devices in energy conservation, transportation, health care, and food distribution. TechSoup Global is building NGOSource , an online data repository to facilitate the sometimes costly business of getting grants to overseas charities.

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Internet Conference Taxonomy Charity 103

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

If you need to budget more conservatively, recruit more volunteers to support the event or gather more in-kind donations rather than purchasing auction items yourself. Accept donations during the event registration process to facilitate even greater fundraising results. Send attendees notifications when they’ve been outbid.

Social Media 52

Social Media Virtual Fundraising Donor 52

Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

We demonstrate that Scaled Q-Learning using a diverse dataset is sufficient to learn representations that facilitate rapid transfer to novel tasks and fast online learning on new variations of a task, improving significantly over existing representation learning approaches and even Transformer-based methods that use much larger models.

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Offline Train Training Learning 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Last week, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating the ultimate social media practitioner panel at the Social Media on Purpose Conference hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review. The panelists included: Cindy Johanson , Executive Director, Edutopia. Matt Fitzgerald , Attention Lab Director, Upwell. ” Yes!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

The tech investment scene was characterized as being strong in software and life sciences, but sometimes too conservative or risk-averse. Investors here can be somewhat conservative and slightly traditional. Too conservative, “stale, pale, male”, and risk-averse. This offer is only available to readers in the U.K.

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Ireland Tech Mentoring Conservancy 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? New Technology for New Power Movements.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Our job as organizational communicators lies in trying to facilitate a larger conversation by providing the means for people to share, perhaps initiate conversations, and highlight the great work and thoughts of others. Movements involve people, not Marketing, PR, Comms, Public Affairs, etc., Never forget that, either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

It's been over a month since my trip to Australia where I presented and facilitated workshops at the ConnectingUp Conference. Clear guidelines are important - see this interview I did with folks from Nature Conservancy about their contest. Nature Conservancy Photo Contest. Photo by Feast of Fools. Creative Commons Swag Contest.

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Australia Advice Social Media Contest 50

TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

In the drug discovery and biotech world, proteins represent unlimited possibility — the right one could clamp onto cancer cells, facilitate natural healing processes, or prompt the creation of helpful substances.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. My trick for helping participants avoid a food coma is to get the audience moving ). I named the donations levels after different types of waves, using surfer’s lingo.

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Campaign Fund Practice Giving 132

Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2022

Through their own reforestation, regeneration, and restoration projects around the world as well as the empowerment of others with the same goal, Plant-for-the-Planet aims to facilitate bringing back 1 trillion trees, helping us keep global warming below 2°C.

Ireland 97

Ireland Challenge Empowerment Local 97

Tableau

APRIL 7, 2022

Communities and traditional stakeholders use the dashboard to learn about biodiversity conservation, watershed services, improved wellbeing, livelihoods, worker’s rights and more. FSC facilitates this engagement while partnering with Indigenous peoples like the Baaka to uphold their ownership, use, and management rights across forests.

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Tableau

APRIL 7, 2022

Communities and traditional stakeholders use the dashboard to learn about biodiversity conservation, watershed services, improved wellbeing, livelihoods, worker’s rights and more. FSC facilitates this engagement while partnering with Indigenous peoples like the Baaka to uphold their ownership, use, and management rights across forests.

Practice 52

Practice Data Congo Conservancy 52

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

. “While it may feel counterintuitive, given the recent market environment, the value of the equity for all parties — investors, founders and employees — is higher in the more conservative growth scenario,” says Mitchem. Thanks very much for reading TC+ this week, Walter Thompson. Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+. yourprotagonist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

We simply put up a sign that tells the visitor where the artwork is (on loan to another museum, on view elsewhere in the building, or in the conservation center for treatment). conference in January 2009, in which he talked about how Flickr is a great tool to facilitate communities. We are storage, after all. at the Smithsonian 2.0

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Museum Campaign Flickr Arts 92

TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

PitchBook notes that as of the end of December, ClearBank’s valuation was just under £274 million, which likely puts the current valuation at $590 million at its most conservative estimate. But the company’s current size and ambitions speaks to potentially larger numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2008

I work for a conservation organization and we???re Listening is a critical marketing practice and it just so happens that social media tools help facilitate listening. I received this email recently: Dear Beth: I've been receiving your blog for a couple of weeks & find it fascinating reading. I also read Seth Godin???s,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Notwithstanding the apprehension of many of today’s more traditional or conservative leaders and managers, the possibilities of crowdsourcing useful vision and wisdom from employees, constituents and markets has been made much easier with the capabilities of today’s interconnected and interlinked Web.

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Leadership Aggregator Culture Method 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. Nature Conservancy Photo Contest. Here's a few resources that might be of interest: How to do you explain flickr to those who haven't heard of it? It isn??????t t simply about putting your photos up on the web for the world to see.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

While startup interest in venture debt is up a lot, lenders are getting more conservative. The startup earlier this year announced that it was becoming a payments facilitator , in addition to enabling other companies to facilitate payments. Across the board, startups are asking us about venture debt way more often.

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Africa Mexico Fund Nigeria 78

Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

For example, it wouldn’t make sense for a nature conservation organization to partner with an oil company. If you have a few potential partners in mind, take a look at your constituent database and see if you have any connections that would be willing to facilitate an introduction. Rely on your connections.

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Audience Marketing Nonprofit Volunteer 98

Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Pursue educational keywords related to your cause Let’s say you’re a nonprofit organization dedicated to environmental conservation. Additionally, a well-structured sitemap can reveal essential metadata, such as the last modification date of a page, facilitating timely updates in search engine databases.

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International Strategy Nonprofit Search 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

Note from Beth: Last year I was honored to partner with Kari Dunn Saratovksy from Third Plateau to facilitate an emerging leadership program to a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Science and Conservation portfolio of grantees. Flickr Image – ImageGroup.

Leadership 50

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Candid

MAY 15, 2024

Ultimately, TBP is about facilitating community self-determination, helping partners envision and create the future that they want. A recent evaluation of our funding to date found that our approach to grantmaking is meeting the real needs of our partners and leading to lasting impact.

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Philanthropy Proposal Application Relationship 52

TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

The complaint excluded “mobile messaging” from Facebook’s market “because [messaging apps] (i) lack a ‘shared social space’ for interaction and (ii) do not employ a social graph to facilitate users’ finding and ‘friending’ other users they may know.”. This is incorrect because messaging is inextricable from Facebook’s power.

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