Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

At the age of 13, my grandfather left his country and ended up as a refugee in America. Despite harsh conditions, he made a new life in a new country, but never forgot his homeland. I’m giving my support as well as sharing my teaching and technology skills with Women’s Rights organizations in Ukraine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

Early last year my colleague Noel Dickover and his co-workers at PeaceTech Lab organized a workshop in Mumbai, India to help activists use technology and media to prevent gender based violence. I’ve been committed to working on technology capacity building for organizations serving Women and Girls empowerment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Since I’m often teaching social media, I like to have participants using these skills during the training as much as possible – as long as it doesn’t become a distraction to their learning. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. That’s the theory at least.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

Then, I started going around the country teaching workshops around spiritual activism: why it's important to take your yoga off the mat and into the world, and the different ways that we can get involved. But every time I would leave a workshop, I would leave with this haunting feeling of, "Now what?" Just rude.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. Right at the end of that period, I also was teaching. I taught that same workshop inside of large corporations, and at the end of having taught that 12 times, I had two affects.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

I met Van Jones about 10 years ago and he was doing criminal justice work and building the new program here, which was Police Watch, and really addressing police brutality, and we met in a Challenging White Supremacy workshop lead by Sharon Martinez back in 1995. It might be teaching. That's just the reality. It might be writing.

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