ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 4, 2018

During my MNLM studies, I learned to appreciate a new definition of advocacy. To use volunteers effectively in advocacy, nonprofits should implement training programs such as a micro-advocacy program, according to Talbert. For volunteers to be successful as advocates, nonprofits must also provide education, opportunity and invitations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 25, 2019

These volunteers are individuals who volunteer in the capacity of their everyday work or with skills that they are specifically trained in. The difference between a skilled volunteer and a non-skilled volunteer is that skilled volunteers have education, training or abilities that a volunteer from the general population would not have.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Additional training to individuals can also assist in expanding their knowledge on certain subjects that may be beneficial to them in the future. Over the past four years, I have worked as an instructional designer in the for-profit education world and am excited to have transitioned into the nonprofit sector.

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Everyaction

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Reproductive Health Access Project works at the crossroads of the medical community and the reproductive rights space to mobilize and train clinicians to ensure access to abortion, contraception, and miscarriage care. It wasn’t just the training, but the systems and laws in place that made it difficult to provide care.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The ads, which tell the stories of people across the country, show the entire scope of the organization’s work: blood collection and supply; support to America’s military families; help to vulnerable communities around the world; disaster relief; and health and safety training and education. What is your definition of success?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

And the ones that have too often focus mainly on hiring a diversity of staff or rolling out unconscious bias training without improving results. Owyoung serves on the Board of Directors for AbilityPath , a nonprofit dedicated to empowering people with special needs to achieve their full potential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

I had a chance to collaborate with every type of art form, arts management programs, arts education, and individual artists. The E-Mediat project where Zoetica was hired to design and deliver the train the trainer’s session. He described the method as an alternative to technology lab classroom skills-based trainings.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership. He also runs the website [link] , a chronicle of the public good applications of virtual worlds for nonprofits, education and government. Nat Robinson.

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BoardAssist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

But there are definitely places where I could do better. Get it Right from the Beginning: Invest heavily in orienting and educating new board members, and making sure that they are the right fit before inviting them to the board. For the most part, I do relatively well with all of this maintenance.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I sat down with Kristen Denner, Director of Membership and Annual Fund, to learn more about the program's development and the museum's goals for its future. This is definitely a challenge that comes up when you work with attitudinal segmentation. How did this project start? It can feel constraining.

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NTEN

APRIL 4, 2011

By Amy Potthast, Director, Service and Graduate Programs, Idealist As a non-techie, I think I can safely say that a hiring nonprofit's current staff may have so little technical knowledge, they don't even know what skills are needed to do a job they want done. to do the work themselves. Read more of Amy's columns on the Idealist blog.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

It’s definitely worth a read. Just like evaluating a company that releases as specific application that you are interested in, understanding and evaluating the community around an open source project can be quite important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

who is the Law & Technology Director at Fenwick & West LLP (F&W), a Silicon-Valley-based law firm. Educate: Important to train or make employees aware of the implications. You need to accompany this with discussion and training. What do you think? presented by Electronic information expert, Robert D.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2014

Your boss definitely will. Education and Self-Development. Go to an AFP conference or a local nonprofit educational event. Purchase online training for your nonprofit staff. Have an afternoon to train your board in fundraising and outreach. Board of Directors Featured Human Resources' One more: 3.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

By Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross. In the midst of inexplicable tragedy, my personal definition of the social web got rocked. We discussed the challenges and opportunities around codifying an online request code, what role mobile must play, the needs for increased capacity and public education.

Disaster 89

Disaster Haiti Los Angeles Social Media 89

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Frost on Fundraising – Speaker Training. Staff, management, and executive-level coaching and training in a variety of areas. Your finances are one area of your operations where you definitely don’t want to leave things up to chance. Board governance training in a concise “Boards 101” format. Why They Stand Out.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

That alone, I don’t know how you do that and then all your other awesome, you know, fundraising and client work, but it definitely has helped out a lot of organizations raise over $1 billion, and is just a delight to listen to. So you might say something along the lines of, “We both care about STEM education.

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People Community Video Podcast 81

Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2011

Rik Panganiban, who leads the Nonprofit Commons online community in Second Life and presents frequently on topics related to global collaboration, education, and nonprofit leadership. He also runs the website [link] , a chronicle of the public good applications of virtual worlds for nonprofits, education and government. Nat Robinson.

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Oracle North Carolina Second Life San Francisco 36

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

There is a Google group (called Social Network Portability), that you should definitely join if you are at all interested in these issues. I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development. Depending on project, going from x.2 3 might be a major or minor release. Going to a x.0 0 release – for example from 2.x is always major.)

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Definitely, my favorite thing because I’m the host. So today, we are going to talk about a few key strategies to help you educate, engage, and empower your board members to amplify your fundraising activity. We do these webinars just about every Thursday throughout the year. We literally do like 50 sessions a year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software. Provides training and professional development for staff to learn how to use measurement tools. Does your Executive Director know where the organization stands?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

It’s definitely worth a listen. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. There is a podcast with a group of women developers that was recorded during RailsConf. There is a part two coming, I understand. Also, I’ll be moving this blog soon – probably next week.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Emily McCann, CEO of Citizen Schools shares her journey from the corporate sector to now lead a renowned national education nonprofit. The days of putting people in a room with 50 of their colleagues to go through a seminar like training hopefully are — or will so on — be over. ” .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Some definitely cool stuff I’ll have to have a look at. { New projects seem to crop up more on Google Code than on SF now a days. Mozilla Labs announces the winners of their Extend Firefox2 contest – the best Firefox add-ons. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 02.14.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

So this is definitely a tool to watch. It’s still in “private&# beta (ask for an invite, you’ll probably get one – I did.) There are a lot of features that are unfinished, but what’s done is polished, and pretty smooth. You can share these Blists. good2gether is an interesting concept. Watch the demo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source. at 3:23 am I think your definition of SaaS is aspirational rather than factual. You are not obtaining the software, and whether or not you can see the code, or modify it, is really not the key issue here. But the real story is much more complicated.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

Shell sessions are basically not doable, unless I am amazingly patient – the 4 second latency is definitely a problem in that case. YouTube ain’t bad. It even snowed a bit – and everything seems fine. But it didn’t stay good. About 5:00, the bandwidth hit the floor. It bounced back up a couple of times.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

at 10:56 am Dear Michelle, You definitely have a great sense of humor! I’m taking time off to work on science fiction writing! { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Deborah Elizabeth Finn 08.01.07 I think that the whole LOL* lpidgin phenomenon is based on a very specific sort of fun.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

Last week I sat down with a former co-worker, Mei-ying Ho, who is now the Co-Director of SOUL , for an interview for my Big Vision podcast. 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. How did you get involved with this kind of work?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

It’s definitely a thing to watch. They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. This is very cool. It makes finding channels with interesting video easy, as well as making channels easy. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

And, to answer the question posed above, the answer is, for me, obviously, a definite yes. I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10 coming out in October. I’m sure I’ll be upgrading. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

Cary McQueen Morrow, executive director of the Center for Arts Management and Technology , is the woman and visionary who organized this landmark event. Right now you are the executive director of CAMT. Blogging is definitely covered in one of the IT Management courses, and I believe it??? Is it education? Development?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I feel that there is a definite demand for open source software in our wonderfully capitalist world. I use GNU/Linux almost exclusively, and I am building a Linux distribution. But, it isn’t as if I intend to be a pauper and live in a box or something. I intend to make a good living on open source software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

For the longest time I shunned Twitter without ever really giving it a chance, as it sounded dumb just by definition. Also, I am thinking about the need to train target markets how to use some of the social marketing tools like Twitter. at 10:15 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Matt Radel 04.11.08

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