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10 Ways Geolocation is Changing the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Activists and volunteers will be more empowered. Behind the scenes, though, we’ll see massive new sets of data available to campaigns for targeting, empowerment, and optimization. In 2008, we had the Tennessee coal ash spill , which was billed as “the largest environmental disaster of its kind in the United States.&#

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How Mentorship Can Break Down Racial Divides

Saleforce Nonprofit

I had always been an informal mentor, but when I moved to Florida, I joined Big Brothers Big Sisters as a volunteer, a ‘Big Sister’. Fostering Understanding & Breaking Down Barriers It’s also an opportunity to educate: more than 68% of the volunteer mentors are white or non-Black. She loved cheerleading (so did I!)

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

Nashville, Tennessee: Apps4Change Demo Breakfast — Nashville — September 2017. Seattle, Washington: Targeted Volunteer Recruitment. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Austin, Texas: Communicating with Impact: Adobe Spark | #Storymakers2017.

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The Bold, Focused Ideas of Breakthrough Nonprofit Brands: Book Giveaway Winners Announced

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While I faced a difficult decision culling winners from the forty focused initiatives described in the entries, I selected the following based on their innovative and courageous approaches to a variety of social issues, from new types of housing for the underserved, to animal welfare, to women’s empowerment.