Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. Deliver targeted, cutting-edge social media training and coaching to 150 – 250 NGOs and CSOs in 15+ communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. But, not just skills training, but learning to understand the impact of connected society and transformation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

One thing I have learned working mostly outside of the US is to start a training by honoring a local tradition. I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. After having have had some early success, they were being confronted with criticism of lack of awareness of the scale or scope of the problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings. Just A Little Content To Get Started .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

AIF is definitely part of the social entrepreneurship movement with a results oriented culture that appeals to the tech entrepreneurs who are some of the main funders. This school is run by an NGO (a nonprofit) and provides free education to children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

"If we start losing cultural diversity, we begin to lose our whole sense of community because community is defined by culture. My dad is the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship. Before moving to Santa Fe, he was the Director of Aid to Artisans , an international artisan enterprise development NGO.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Although I’m seeing an increase of men giving to NGOs, this difference still surprises me. In my opinion, I don’t think it’s the result of a financial boost of women due to women joining the workforce, but rather something more cultural regarding patriarchy and machismo.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The end of the Guatemalan Civil War resulted in a flood of non-governmental organization (NGO) programs spreading across the country in the hope of helping desperately poor people gain everything from their human rights, to better health care, food and nutrition, and training in governance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I continued an active schedule of teaching workshops on self-care for nonprofit professionals and creating a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace as well as numerous keynote presentations. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face. This past year was my 4th year as an adjunct professor at Middlebury College.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

Based on the underlying theme of women’s empowerment with a focus on education and entrepreneurship, the 70 participants of the Tel Aviv event included representatives of NGOs active in the fields of employment, education, women’s empowerment, consultancy, and tech training from all over Israel. Technology does not solve problems.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2021

I know from being in the NGO world for many years what kind of a burden that can be. And we’re encouraging grantee partners to participate in the free trainings that Candid provides —about what this process looks like, about how to upload their information, and about how to conduct such a survey internally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

My sister was working for an NGO as a volunteer agriculturist in Cambodia and encouraged me to take a job there. Tell us about your work in Cambodia with the NGO, Mlup Baitong. Although I come from a different culture, it doesn't hamper my work. How does your NGO use technology to support your advocacy and education work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 10, 2007

My Dad is involved in the creation of the Global Center for Cultural Enterprise and Entrepreneurship which will support cultural entrepreneurs around the world with training, tech support, and policy and funding resources. cultural entrepreneurship social networking ning

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Imagine this scenario: You’re an NGO working in an African country to advocate for clean water. Sometimes the problem is training. Sometimes the problem is cultural. Sometimes, it’s having the solution use local languages or other appropriate cultural marks. The last of these principles is TRAINING.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 30, 2022

In a 2021 survey by NonprofitHR , more than a third of those surveyed (35%) said they left their jobs due to dissatisfaction or disengagement with the current organization or culture. One solution is for nonprofits to create upskilling programs accessible by employees either at a low cost or no cost, with paid time to complete training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

Technorati Tags: CoP2.0 , CP2Web2 , net2 , nptech , nonprofit , ngo , non-profit. " I also think we should learn more about what has been learned from these early nonprofit adoption experiments and forge ahead with some more action learning. What do you think?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2006

she worked on a program called the “African Peace and Development Initiative” at the NGO, World Learning for International Development , doing project backstopping for peacebuilding initiatives in East Africa. before coming to Up with People. While in D.C., You can get more info at www.upwithpeople.org.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In our data culture , we suggest your nonprofit takes the time to put one together as a means of showing your organization’s transparency — and bragging about your success in the past year. Their stellar 2018 Annual Report helps distill the operations of a very large International NGO into a readable and well-designed report.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. UNESCO views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Educators (cultural institutions) and IP owners (publishers and broadcasters) can use it to create immersive games with a drag-and-drop interface that can be deployed in VR and on mobile. UA Drone School UA Drone School offers a 4-day training drone courses in Kyiv and the region. Free for the military.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

SOUL is a training center based here in Oakland. We place ourselves in the social justice work here in the Bay Area as a training center. We focus on political education and organizer skills trainings, and we definitely think it is critical to see the fusion of those two things. Their culture. Their method.

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Whole Whale

MAY 10, 2024

In our data culture , we suggest your nonprofit takes the time to put one together as a means of showing your organization’s transparency — and bragging about your success in the past year. Their stellar 2018 Annual Report helps distill the operations of a very large International NGO into a readable and well-designed report.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Transformative keynote speakers, compelling educational sessions and unbeatable networking opportunities will leave you awash in experiences to inspire and strengthen the philanthropic culture of your YMCA. General / #NAYDO2019 / @YMCA_NAYDO. The Learning Conference 2019. The Learning Conference 2019. May 29 - 30.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 7, 2006

We also run after school programs, where we have curriculum that is based on teaching youth –mostly elementary and middle school aged kids – about community service and civics and cultural awareness. There are all sorts of fellowships and training programs in the summer as well – start with Idealist.org and keep looking from there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. I ask people to share what is top of mind when they think about social media and their NGO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

For example, you can hear the story about how the above Tunisian NGO went from “crawling” to “running” over the course of the program. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

Along the way, I united my passion for social media and nonprofits, training, fundraising with Cambodia. This is the first of a three-part post about what I learned about social media, NGOs, and Social Change in Cambodia. I tweeted about visiting a wild life and the NGO offered a great tip about not missing the sun bear via Twitter.

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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?" Training on a hoard of ICT topics is available on-line and in the classroom. Larger corporations have training departments and a multi-prong syllabus.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

As Forbes reports, it legitimises a throw-away culture; we are told that it doesn’t matter how much plastic or paper we use, because we can recycle it, so throwing it away is a-okay. Buses and trains have a much lower environmental impact. Take holidays closer to home, and travel by bus or train. This isn’t true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2009

Last year, the Sharing Foundation's sewing school, a vocational training program, made over 1250 uniform sets and donated them to needy children in Roteang Village, to the Street Children's Assistance NGO, and to a poor government orphanage. I've been leaving notes on Facebook walls, Twitter, or whatever is the best channel.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

." - Amira Diamond Women's Earth Alliance (WEA), unites women on the front lines of environmental justice causes by coordinating training, technology, and financial support for thriving communities and the Earth. We do that by coordinating training, technology, and advocacy support. This training was tremendous. What was that?

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

As Forbes reports, it legitimises a throw-away culture; we are told that it doesn’t matter how much plastic or paper we use, because we can recycle it, so throwing it away is a-okay. Buses and trains have a much lower environmental impact. Take holidays closer to home, and travel by bus or train. This isn’t true.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. It takes a lot of training on behalf of the project managers that oversee the process. He did his degree in NGO Management, and will be graduating this coming June. So, that's what we did. We would bring students.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

She’s got a really cool training course called Social Media for Social Good, her academy there. So, yes, I think the Global NGO Technology Report found the majority of nonprofits do agree social media is effective for creating brand awareness. Julia: It’s important. I mean, what can I say about her? Follow her on Twitter.

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