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NTEN – Here's a great run-down from Amy Luckey of the process to use in exploring and evaluating your organization's impact. And she uses NTEN as an example so you can see all the work we've been doing to figure this out for our strategic plan, too: "What does your organization do? ."
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NTEN members are even using The Hunger Games buzz to educate about real world food and water issues. Think you can tell the difference between real life and the scary scenarios presented in The Hunger Games? Speaking of NTEN member discounts, you can also register for Interop Las Vegas at a special NTEN price!
The NTEN Blog. It is designed to do more than deliver content on the issue of hunger in Central Texas, it also has interactive components such as a game featuring a virtual "Kitchen Cupboard," where users can stock their kitchen shelves with healthy, non-perishable food items they've caught. Allison Fine's Blog. Social Edge Blogs.
It might''ve been Memorial Day weekend, but baseball and barbecues are hardly the only things going on with NTEN members. The NTEN community (that''s you!) gets 10% off registration with the code "nten". We loved reading this Points of Light blog post from an inspiring fourth grader who describes his work to fight hunger.
Based on the response to a couple of how-to articles about Google Analytics I've posted to the NTEN blog recently , we know there's a hunger for more information about how to understand what's going on with your organization's web site. . Series Cost : $50 for NTEN Members, $100 for non-members. Presented by : Eric T.
Here''s what your fellow NTEN Members have been up to this summer! This day-long conference is devoted to the latest technology trends and resources for nonprofits, and features NTEN Member, Beth Kanter , as the keynote speaker. Want to combat childhood hunger? Trying to decide on an email service? There''s an app for that!
note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. We recently sent out a thank-you email to thank our community for successes during Hunger Action Month in September. Aimy Wiley, Capital Area Food Bank of Texas. [Ed. The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter.
Fortunately, soup kitchens don’t work alone in addressing hunger. Collectively, these organizations begin to address the complex issue of hunger. Seven organizations participated: 501cTECH, Idealware, Network for Good, NTEN, NPower, NPower PA, and TechSoup Global. > Download the NTAP Sector Research Assessment Report here.
Besides this book, we recommend a number of other social media "must reads": We Are Media - a community effort lead by Beth and NTEN to put together an online curriculum for nonprofits using social media. Also, you could just drop her a line to let her know how useful you found it. Mobilizing Generation 2.0
If you want to find more, follow ntenhross from NTEN, the nonprofit technology network. All of them talking about hunger issues. NTEN and TechSoup and NpTechBlogs These are hubs for nonprofit technology on Twitter. TwitterPacks/Nonprofit has a list of over 300 nonprofits (not all are on nonprofitsorgs on Twitter).
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That’s the questions I asked myself as I designed my panel for the NTEN’s annual conference, the NTC. If you are bored with my description of process and hungering for the content, here’s Devon’s “Storify&# documentation for the session.
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Holly Ross, NTEN. [Ed. It's hard to imagine why Internet access should matter to a hunger organization or an after-school program, but it does. Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN. note: This is Holly's introduction to our August Newsletter. If you aren't subscribed yet, you really should be.]. I was floored.
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Sure, we report a lot of things -- how many people we fed, how many students attend our classes -- but we rarely use data to talk about what matters: Are we ending hunger? Tags: NPTech NTEN data visualization 09NTC. Here's the thing, guys: we don't use data as well as we could. Are our students learning? .
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All of them talking about hunger issues. I like how Holly Ross from NTEN handles her presence and her staff's presence -- and they are using Twitter for the organization. And this means having more and more staff having a presence on social media sites. She says they simply follow their organization's core values.
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