Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

We are in the middle of global disruption due to widespread mobile Internet and cloud technology, Big Data, the rise of the collaborative economy and crowdsourcing/funding. NGOs, activists, and even governments have used bots to automate positive social change activities: Pregnancy and newborn care education. Grassroots organizing.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

During this time, we saw policies such as child labor laws, suffrage for women and prohibition. For the first time in the nation’s history, people came together to fundraise on a global scale. The government also became much more involved in social and cultural welfare programs. This gave them greater voice in the government.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

by Dinesh Venkateswaran, Manager - Global Data Acquisitions, TechSoup Global. Guardian’s ACTIVATE is an annual conference that aims to bring together leaders in media, government and technology to a ctivatedly. data and governance, profiting from social change projects, and access to data and tools. disaster).

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JUNE 6, 2011

Outside of our organizations, we have government institutions, and service providers. The community, partners, government, are all necessary for really making a change. Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level. Have people heard of 350.org

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The NetSquared regional ambassadors will also be on-site sharing the joy of being a NetSquared organizer and participating in the fun. These global leaders are coming from the United Kingdom, Uganda, Florida, and DC. Governance Matters: Create a More Powerful Board Through Policy Governance. Seattle, Washington.

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Forum One

MARCH 4, 2008

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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AUGUST 29, 2010

Temra Costa's book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat features the stories of over 30 women and how they are changing our food system for the better as farmers, educators, mothers, chefs, businesswomen, and policy wonks. Everywhere I go and talk about the book, it's so fun to meet a new community of food producers.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2008

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Forum One

MARCH 24, 2008

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 24, 2007

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Forum One

MAY 15, 2007

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Forum One

APRIL 12, 2007

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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JUNE 9, 2007

What surprised me the most (you all probably already knew this), is that the Sudanese government officials who were close to Osama bin Laden (who lived there from 1991-1996) are cooperating with the American counterterrorism authorities, so the United States doesn't want to rock the counterterrorism information boat by upsetting them about Darfur.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2006

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

12th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. 12th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Governance / @usdsoles. Governance. Leadership / #AMI16 / @NPL_Alliance. Leadership. Jan 13 - 15. Strategic.

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MAY 27, 2007

The Select Committee held a special hearing, entitled: "Economic Impacts of Global Warming: Green Collar Jobs." Too often the work of social change feels separate from government. Her exciting, new proposal would give federal support to 'green collar job training' programs, which would help give U.S.

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JULY 12, 2007

You can get more information about how to take action, and about the event, on the PotterCast web site , MuggleNet and of course, the Harry Potter Alliance In addition to raising awareness about Darfur, the Harry Potter Alliance also created the (hilarious) YouTube video Harry Potter and the Dark Lord WaldeMart about Wal-Mart's employees policies.

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APRIL 25, 2008

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work. So, that was quite inspirational.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Upgrading to Open Source Government When: Monday, March 16th from 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Room Hilton D Description: The 2004 and 2008 campaigns use of collaborative tools, blogs and social networking have shown citizen activism and online communities can wield powerful influence. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply.

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OCTOBER 9, 2005

The next session I went to was Building the Local Green Economy presented by Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange. One of the most exciting things he talked about is the creation of a Global Citizen Center in downtown San Francisco. City governments are increasingly passing laws to strengthen the local, green economy.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So first you can expand your toolkit by making sure that you have strong gift acceptance policies that are already in place, particularly related to appreciated asset-giving, wealth transfers and bequests. And it’s, I think, fun and worthwhile to just go to the beginning and provide a little bit of context for how did this thing happen.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Your way may be starting an organic catering company, or painting about issues that are important to you, or getting out on the streets and protesting, or maybe working with policy; there are all kinds of different work. It may be a bigger group, but the emphasis is on diversity and creativity.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So first you can expand your toolkit by making sure that you have strong gift acceptance policies that are already in place, particularly related to appreciated asset-giving, wealth transfers and bequests. And it’s, I think, fun and worthwhile to just go to the beginning and provide a little bit of context for how did this thing happen.

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MAY 21, 2008

Our members envision a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. Instead of being reactive, we can be proactive, and work to be a government that prevents genocide. this past Sunday was the Global Day for Darfur. My hands were shaking and I was really nervous.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The other thing that I think is happening globally is that there’s greater economic inequality. Or we need 1,000 donors to chip in, or we need 150,000 people to sign this petition to the government to make sure they protect this wilderness area. You need to have a gift acceptance policy. Going to be a fun one.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Putting together a team of incredibly talented, committed and fun professionals. For example, in France, the government plays a much bigger role in education and healthcare. For example, the UK does not allow tax deductions for nonprofit giving but does have a government credit system called GiftAid. Really amazing.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Putting together a team of incredibly talented, committed and fun professionals. For example, in France, the government plays a much bigger role in education and healthcare. For example, the UK does not allow tax deductions for nonprofit giving but does have a government credit system called GiftAid. Really amazing.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Founded by Susan Crawford, who now advises President Obama on science, technology, and innovation policy, OneWebDay is a global event that is celebrated every September 22 since 2006. For All. -- is all about digital inclusion, digital literacy, and working to close the many digital divides we face in our global society.

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JUNE 19, 2006

The newest Big Vision podcast is up , and it is an interview with Ilyse Hogue, the Global Finance Campaign Director for the Rainforest Action Network and one of the founders of SmartMeme , a non-profit collective of long term organizers, strategists, trainers and communications professionals. you know, I thought, "Wow!

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JUNE 30, 2007

One of the things for me, in going to protests and demonstrations about different issues, is that I felt that the protests were really boring, dry and preachy, not fun and compelling. One of the fun things about sitting up here is Britt and I went to college together. My path was really environmental work, environmental policy work.

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APRIL 25, 2007

He has won many honors, including the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the International Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and the Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship. The government needs to get involved. It is actually really understandable.

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DECEMBER 3, 2005

I love listening to Barack Obama's podcasts because he gives me hope that there is at least one person in the US government who is reasonable, sane, intelligent and truly cares about people as humans, not just as voters who can keep him in or out of office. military footprint in Iraq.

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