Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

It is all about the data, but data is playing a huge role in civic engagement strategies and if people or nonprofits lack the skills to use it for civic engagement goals, that poses a problem. One of the themes that came up is the gap in skills of citizens and nonprofits and the use of data.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This means sending out regular emails each week that are specially made to say “thank you” and recognize the board members for taking an active role. These emails work as reminders, pointing out their important role in meetings, how they represent the organization well, and how they help the CEO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

My role was to document the event and collect stories. The first shift of volunteers arrived on site at 7:00 am and we were given an orientation and an overview about how computer refurbishing can be an economic empowerment tool for the homeless and save the environment. My role was to document the [.]

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Founder Khalid Parekh raised the capital primarily from the very demographic that Houston-based Fair aims to serve: from a group consisting of a number of immigrants, many of whom were first-time investors. He won’t get a salary for his role as CEO. Parekh is not your traditional fintech founder. Upon arriving in the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

He was able to isolate and replicate the effect of an individual team members contribution across multiple groups, showing that a team player increases group performance quite meaningfully. Its about personal empowerment. But the significance of a love for learning goes beyond just professional growth.

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Candid

JULY 2, 2021

Announced at the Generation Equality Forum convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France, the Gates Foundation's commitment will focus on three areas: women's economic empowerment, health and family planning, and leadership.

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Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

How do young people today see their role in making the world a better place, and what are the implications for the social sector? Focus group participants from private, public, community, and historically Black colleges and universities told researchers that many of them had been recipients as well as providers of help since 2020.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

You cannot have empowerment without participation: empowerment is not something we ‘do’ to other people, but is itself a participatory process that engages people in reflection and inquiry to understand the power they have, and to take action for change as they define it.” All we know is what they tell the donors they’re doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In addition to the countless lunches, coffees, roundtables, focus groups and other opportunities for feedback and discussion I engaged in I also dug into the evidence on the impacts of capacity building on organizations. The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Spectra Gram: This is a full group exercise that you can use to bring out ideas or different views on the topic. Then the group draws the connections. Then the group draws the connections.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2024

For most nonprofits, the lion’s share of money comes from the smallest group of people. board, advisory group members, committee members, active volunteers, major donors, key staff), and invite them all to attend. When storytelling has concluded, ask the group for feedback Ask first for volunteers. How did it feel?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Shiftsmart , a New York-based labor management resource, is the latest to see some love from investors, bringing in $95 million in Series B funding for its workforce management software that matches hourly workers with open shifts across a variety of industry verticals and roles. The days of shift work that involve “coming in at 2 p.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Peer Synergy is also important — and for the next six months we will have two tracks for the peer groups. In addition, we will be using a wiki to showcase learning and a private Facebook group for daily contact and “just in time” support. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

The Accelerator Summit included interactive sessions show casing their programs in these areas: workforce development , employee giving , environment , online safety , and the role of technology in the non-profit community. “ Unleashing Technology. View more presentations from Akhtarbad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States.

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Tableau

JANUARY 31, 2022

To navigate the data chaos and make sense of a rapidly-changing landscape, we spoke with experts, customers, and other Tableau leaders to learn what emerging forces continue to evolve how we work, the role data and analytics play, and what this means to the future of our customers, partners, company, and the Tableau Community. .

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

It opened up the question of what roles chefs can play in international development. Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. For the past 5 or 6 years we've had a small but steady group of supporters who are primarily invested in our empowerment projects. Our culinary school is just one example.

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Tableau

JANUARY 31, 2022

To navigate the data chaos and make sense of a rapidly-changing landscape, we spoke with experts, customers, and other Tableau leaders to learn what emerging forces continue to evolve how we work, the role data and analytics play, and what this means to the future of our customers, partners, company, and the Tableau Community. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." " Frustration in the workplace is a silent killer," claim authors Mark Royal and Tom Agnew in their book, The Enemy of Engagement. It''s lack of enablement.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

As some of the most powerful civic institutions that exist in this country, labor unions have long played a critical role in improving the wages and living conditions of workers. How to build significant partnerships in order to boost prominence and achieve a growing customer base? Can Labor Unions Support Platform Cooperatives? .

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

My role was to document the event and collect stories. The first shift of volunteers arrived on site at 7:00 am and we were given an orientation and an overview about how computer refurbishing can be an economic empowerment tool for the homeless and save the environment. Approximately 100 volunteers participated in service activities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2019

This group is motivated by different types of incentives. According to recent findings, nonprofit organizations can capitalize on training, building a culture of empowerment and recognition programs in order to provide incentives to employees. In recent years, the support for executive searches and coaching has grown among foundations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." " Frustration in the workplace is a silent killer," claim authors Mark Royal and Tom Agnew in their terrific book, The Enemy of Engagement.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." Further, "in an organizational context, frustration is not as simple as failing to get something you want. And what's causing all that frustration?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 20, 2006

What I find so interesting and inspiring about the Global Fund's work is how their grants to women's groups seem to come with so few strings attached, which empowers the women receiving the funds to use them how they best feel that they need to be spent. We love the groups book clubs, Weight Watchers , Dining for Women -- BlogHer !

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. The Africa Forum is the premier meeting of blindness groups across sub-Saharan Africa, and it’s held roughly every three years. Interviewed several candidates for executive positions at Benetech. Visiting the Hon.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The survey gave us a basic sketch, but the color and texture emerged during follow-up focus group conversations. The focus groups captured diverse insights of volunteer managers from the full range of volunteerdom. This is a glimpse of the hundreds of stories we collected during the focus group conversations.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2023

When your nonprofit is new, young, or small, finding volunteers and plugging them in to a role they enjoy can be tricky. Get in front of civic groups, service clubs, and faith organizations and talk to them about volunteering. But it can be done. And if these are tasks you can take off YOUR plate, awesome!

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

I use humor to point out disparities to a group of individuals who obviously are open to such feedback by way of joining a queer, female CEO in a company called NonBinary Solutions. It’s not a one-size-fits-all approach; it’s about aligning their role with their personal goals.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

” The marketing also claims no food is “off limits” — implying there’s a difference between Zoe’s custom food scores and (weight-loss focused) diets that perhaps require people to cut out a food group (or groups) entirely.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

But anybody who's seen Cloverfield or I Am Legend knows what happens when a mass of people tries to cross a bridge to escape a bad situation: a bottleneck forms, infighting destroys group solidarity, and then something unforeseen destroys the bridge. (Or, The Bottleneck. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Helping staff grow in their roles. Make sure it’s within the price range so you can sponsor as many as who want to participate in the program (or ask to see if there’s a group rate). . If you have a great number of interested individuals, you might consider offering some type of group discussion element around the opportunity.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2019

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." " Frustration in the workplace is a silent killer," claim authors Mark Royal and Tom Agnew in their terrific book, The Enemy of Engagement.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 27, 2017

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." " Frustration in the workplace is a silent killer," claim authors Mark Royal and Tom Agnew in their terrific book, The Enemy of Engagement.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." " Frustration in the workplace is a silent killer," claim authors Mark Royal and Tom Agnew in their terrific book, The Enemy of Engagement.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." " Frustration in the workplace is a silent killer," claim authors Mark Royal and Tom Agnew in their terrific book, The Enemy of Engagement.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2015

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." " Frustration in the workplace is a silent killer," claim authors Mark Royal and Tom Agnew in their terrific book, The Enemy of Engagement.

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