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Becoming A Networked Nonprofit Workshop: Reflections from Junior Achievement Worldwide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the common things I hear when teach workshops on social media is “We don’t have the time.&# We make the point in the book that if nonprofits make the shift from scarcity to abundance thinking – they will be able to leverage their networks. We had a range of attitudes about the value of social media.

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Bringing the Lean Startup approach to healthcare

The Next Web

I also teach students, residents and fellows and hold joint appointments in the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health as an Assistant Professor. We founded the organization just eight months ago and are already accepting applications for our inaugural summer program which will be held in Louisville and Washington DC.

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And the Winner(s) of the Social Media Library Are.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But the grand prize winner of the books offered by Steve are: Erin McMahon , Metro United Way, Louisville, KY. Erin even wrote a little poetry as part of her entry.

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Celebrating Black history and Black futures

Candid

An HBCU Midnight Brunch during Juneteenth weekend at the Roots 101: African American Museum , a nonprofit in Louisville, Kentucky, exemplifies this fusion of the past and what is to come. When we talk about history, we always say we teach the past while we teach the future. Looking to the future. HBCUs are also about the future.

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Student social good startups collect $95K in T-Mobile competition

TechCrunch

Sounds like middleware for hospitals, but it’s two teenage cousins in Louisville who have now helped more than 2,000 senior citizens make vaccination and other healthcare appointments by walking them through the digital processes that might otherwise have puzzled them. Take the finalist MedTechConnect , for instance.

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Juneteenth Resources

Media Cause

And a few more worth checking out: Woke Vote , Baltimore Action Legal Team , Black Visions Collective – MN , Louisville Community Bail Fund , Massachusetts Bail Fund , Minnesota Freedom Fund , National Urban League , Reclaim the Block , Southern Poverty Law Center , Black Women Radicals , African American Policy Forum. Mudbound (Movie).

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Americans still believe they live in a compassionate country, report shows

Fast Company Tech

The report that caught my eye was issued in January 2025 by the Muhammad Ali Center , which the late boxer cofounded 20 years ago in Louisville, Kentucky, to advance social justice. Defining compassion Sociologists define compassion as the human regard for the suffering of others, and the notion of using action to alleviate this pain.

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