Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 17, 2013

He is also one of the creators of the environmental protection movement in Paraguay, having co-founded the Moisés Bertoni Conservation Foundation and the Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve, two of the country’s prominent nature conservation institutions. and Africa.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Just change the subject line, suppress people who have already completed the ask (or openers of the first send, if you want to be a bit more conservative), and voila! Relive the experience, just like TV weatherman Phil Connors! Were you hoping for something subtler? More technically complicated? Maybe a social media angle?

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 13, 2022

Steve co-authored a feature article for the Stanford Social Innovation Review on Lean Experimentation in the social sector (Summer 2015) and served as the Senior Advisor to Revolution English, an innovative nonprofit startup that now teaches English to more than one million people in a low-cost, financially self-sustaining way.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

Unfortunately, there are literally hundreds of nonprofit social enterprises operating in all of these areas.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Teach for America’s vision statement is that one day, all children in this nation will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education. . David And Lucile Packard Foundation : Improving the lives of children, enabling the creative pursuit of science, advancing reproductive health, conserving and restoring the earth’s natural systems.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

We purposely set a more conservative goal so that our staff could feel the motivating rush of achieving it, and then we could push to exceed the original goal. It was also important for us to set an overall fundraising goal for the campaign and a timeline for reaching that goal. Using past campaigns as a benchmark, we set our goal at $50,000.

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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. But if there is a natural overlap with your cause and your game, your message will resonate even more effectively.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2023

In a complaint filed this week, the American Alliance for Equal Rights — founded by conservative activist Edward Blum, the man driving the effort to end affirmative action — sued a minority-focused venture capital fund for unlawful racial discrimination. And given Blum’s recent record , a loss for Fearless Fund could be on the cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2013

Tweet or Facebook your favorite story about the ocean or share an ocean conservation link with #oceanLoveEarl hashtag. He was the first person to bring surfing to the Jersey Shore in the 1960′s – he was an early adopter, teaching himself how to surf and owning one of the first Greg Noll surfboard.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

As one goes deeper down the stack, engineering decisions become ever more conservative — changing the location of a button in a web app is an inconvenience; changing a database engine can radically upend an entire project. Web front ends rely on JavaScript and browser DOM, which rely on back-end APIs, which themselves rely on databases.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

She is currently an Associate Professor of History and American Studies at William & Mary where she researches, teaches, and writes about early America. This second point reminded me of some work I did with The Nature Conservancy in their efforts to support knowledge-sharing among conservation practitioners.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Jeff Bezos’ $2 billion plan, announced last week, to plant trees and restore landscapes across Africa and the US has already raised red flags for some conservation experts and activists. The hope with the new conservation investment is to preserve ecosystems that naturally draw down and store planet-heating carbon dioxide pollution.

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The Next Web

APRIL 20, 2013

I also teach students, residents and fellows and hold joint appointments in the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health as an Assistant Professor. Furthermore, many health providers are very conservative and reluctant to try new things and so adoption can be slow. How has lean startup methodology influenced your role?

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

They become even more conservative. It teaches you just how mundane the everyday existence of an early-stage startup is. These talented unemployed youth should be taking their destinies into their own hands and starting something – instead, they have been taught the opposite. Work for someone else, someone bigger. They know better.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Young, old, poor, rich, conservative, liberal, urban, rural, black, white, brown, red, yellow, gay, straight, preps, goths, rappers, artists, hippies, yuppies… you name it. They are all on MySpace. It’s a community so diverse that it’s impossible to label, to put nicely in a box.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 4, 2025

Environmental issuesespecially ones like water conservation, reducing pollution, and climate actionimpact humans directly. Their Work Secures the Future From teaching young people why and how to care for the environment to promoting causes that keep the Earth in good shape, environmental organizations are working for a better future.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Leveraging a data warehouse for campaign segmentation allows you to move high-volume campaign membership records out of Salesforce, conserving data storage while supporting better donor segmentation. Success Story: Creating Equity in Education With Teach For America + Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Cross Channel Analytics.

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The Verge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Cooper says although the tool is a “joke on the surface,” systems like this could have serious applications in teaching and study. This site is pure gold [link] "I am pretty sure that I will be criticized for this post by people who see me as "anti-conservation". But I’m not anti-conservation. I am just anti-bad conservation.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In fact, I am planning to post a how-to article to teach you how I go about writing a typical appeal with Fundwriter. Inputs: Organization: Yellowstone Valley Conservation Corps (YVCC) What would you like to get their input on?: I am the Development Director for Yellowstone Valley Conservation Corps. was the nonprofit.

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Candid

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Bezos Earth Fund awards $443 million for climate justice, conservation. The Bezos Earth Fund has announced grants totaling $443 million in support of nonprofits working to advance climate justice, nature conservation and restoration, and the tracking of critical climate goals. Grants totaling $23.5 December 8, 2021. December 8, 2021.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

One of the things that I do before I teach this workshop is look at the participant's social media ant trails by looking at their web sites, twitter streams, Facebook and YouTube. Executive Creative Director of frog design , Robert Fabricant, leads multidisciplinary design teams, teaches at NYU’s Tisch School.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Johanson discussed a recent user generated video campaign for Teacher Appreciation Day in partnership with Soul Pancake that invited teachers to share a letter they would write to themselves when they first started teaching. The campaign leveraged nostalgia. The final set of case studies discussed social media success and failure.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

To give you an example of how to do this, a recent client was having problems telling the story of the marine conservation program they were building. Finally, after hearing a lot of nuts and bolts from them about numerous programs and processes around which I couldn’t quite wrap my brain, I said “Tell me why I should give in one sentence.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

An ornithologist and manager at the San Diego Zoo, he was involved in the conservation effort for many years and was a proponent of captive breeding. Stephanie teaches undergraduate courses in the Nonprofit Leadership and Management program, and she has also been a youth summer camp director for over 20 years. January 2, 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

In 2008, we started to see click action philanthropy on Facebook with Lil Green Patch raising over $100,000 for the Nature Conservancy. The Free Rice Game has generated enough rice to feed millions of people since it started in October 2007 or a total of 70,991,387,110 grains of rice as of October 2009.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

One volunteer manager at an Arizona zoo described finding new ways to teach their volunteers about wildlife: “Over Zoom, we would give presentations about the different animals in our collection… So, for example, I did a presentation on bird conservation, which was not something that we ever had before.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2009

While preparing to teach a social media webinar recently, I discovered quite a few environmental/green nonprofits that have YouTube channels. You can't beat video for pulling at your heartstrings, which is why it can be a powerful tool for organizations with the time, money and skills to post videos on a regular basis.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 22, 2021

For example, you can learn how much money you need to raise to sponsor a client, fund a meal, conserve an acre, etc. This webinar will teach you all the essential elements of a winning fundraising appeal, including how to use compelling language to draw readers in and craft effective calls to action to convert more donors.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2011

No matter what mission a nonprofit is dedicated to, be it health care, housing, conservation, etc., So, they made a point of teaching me about history from an indigenous perspective, surrounding me with role models that reflected my cultural values and immersing me in traditional spiritual practices from the time I was born.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Hear from nonprofits such as Teach for America, The Nature Conservancy, ASPCA, The James Irvine Foundation, New Story, Team Rubicon, and more! More than 3,000 nonprofits have made the switch to Box to increase online collaboration and manage sensitive information.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Research by Teach the Future found that 77% of students say thinking about climate change makes them anxious. The climate crisis is one of the most unifying challenges of our time and a key strategic issue for nonprofits and educational institutions. Listen to Your Stakeholders. Lead From the Front.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The contested Bugoma Forest is home to nine mammal species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species, including about 600 endangered chimpanzees. I’m no longer teaching. Now I’m there [on Twitter] to learn, but I cannot teach. please welcome me once again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. While this represents around 150 million more users than this time last year, these numbers may still be conservative. Global Conversations.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" By Edward Granger-Happ, Global CIO, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

They started to conserve resources, send supplies to troops overseas and develop both civilian and refugee relief programs. Takeaway: What did the government and nonprofit collaboration in the 1970s teach us? For the first time in the nation’s history, people came together to fundraise on a global scale. Don’t be afraid of Uncle Sam.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Veda Banerjee, Director of Communications, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. John Cluverius, Teaching Assistant/Graduate Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Paula Jones, Director of Technology, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits. Beth Kanter, Consultant, Beth''s Blog. NTC Steering Committee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

Our goal was for NetCorps interns to teach NGOs how to integrate technical tools into their workplace to achieve their mission, at the same time these orgs were teaching our students how to deal in life. We taught our NetCorps students skills such as running meetings, performing needs assessments, project management, etc.

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