Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students. Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The Jean Griswold Foundation is a public, non-profit foundation whose primary goal is to support caregivers and better their lives. The Eisner Foundation supports organizations in Los Angeles County and New York City offering intergenerational solutions to society’s greatest challenges. Areas served: Worldwide.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

In conjunction with Aulas en Paz (Peaceable Classrooms), a multi-component pedagogical project designed to promote social and civic competencies and conflict resolution among primary-school students, Dance 4 Peace was designed, implemented, and evaluted in public schools in the outskirts of Bogotá.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

One of the most gratifying things about the publication of the book, The Networked Nonprofit , is that it has re-connected me to colleagues and past clients as well as making connections to new people. We understand that The Intern might be a high school student, an MBA, a retiree, or anyone in between.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

continuing series, we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Organizations reliant on government funding continue to experience a “death by a thousand cuts,” says NFF client Sharon Stapel, Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project. “In Anjali Deshmukh , Associate Director.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Pro bono is a shortened form of the Latin term “pro bono publico,” or for the public good, and is also gaining traction in the professional fields of architecture, marketing, medicine, IT (for instance hackathons ), and strategy consulting. Taproot Foundation and the Pro Bono Movement. Taproot Foundation is a U.S.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

Entering into a rigorous, time-intensive pay for success contract is likely a better plan if a program is not brand new. The Rikers Island pay for success program was rooted in evidence-based research, but had never been operated by the service provider in as complex a setting as the New York City prison (MDRC, 2015).

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

Find out more on this new service here. The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. Very sophisticated for a student team. The FCC ruling opened a four-month public comment period, after which it will take a final vote on net neutrality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2008

I graduated from Boston University in May where I majored in Public Relations. I am working as a consultant and I'm also doing work with Social Media for Social Change , a new nonprofit. We're going to have our event in New York City. After the session, I got an opportunity to do an interview with her.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Ravon Ruffin and Amanda Figuero - Claiming Space for Brown Women in the Digital Museum Landscape Based in Washington DC, Brown Girls Museum Blog is a new-ish site led by graduate students Ravon Ruffin and Amanda Figueroa. They are holding meetups, creating swag , and getting heard.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Helmsley Charitable Trust , the first in a series of three Poverty Tracker reports, Health and Health Care in New York City (36 pages, PDF), found that more than two million New Yorkers have high healthcare needs and are more likely to live in poverty. Chicago Public Media raises $61 million to acquire Chicago Sun-Times.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Attend If You’re: A PBD fundraiser or public media professional looking for the inside scoop To Register: [link] FFE Summit Cabo San Lucas January 22-25, 2024 Hosted by the Foundation for Fraternal Excellence, Summit gives foundation executives, board members, and alliance partners an opportunity to spend time with each other.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Brown Rudnick Center for Public Interest. They focus funding on organizations that work on financial literacy for elementary and high school students (established programs only). Our goal is to graduate more students who are ready to enter aerospace and advanced manufacturing careers and STEM-focused post-secondary education.” .

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JULY 11, 2007

Fine is a senior fellow at Demos , a network of action and ideas based in New York City. We are used to seeing movements spearheaded by one or a few public faces. Level Playing Field Institute is one, students they advocate for are creating podcasts and blogging. She is the founder of Innovation Network, Inc.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Moreover, we recently held a two-day workshop in New York City, bringing together a wide range of activists and funders, developing a model we plan to replicate around the world. Canadians with disabilities will now have access to Bookshare through their public libraries and the Canadian National Institute of the Blind.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Tuesday was my first day volunteering with the "reading partners" program at my neighborhood public elementary school. Because it was my first time meeting the students, part of the half hour was spent getting to know each other. Today, 826 has chapters in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Michigan, and Boston.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Innovation Festival aligns a community of innovators and agitators, bringing to life the future of business and culture with a mix of playfulness and sophistication, captivating keynotes, hands-on workshops, and intimate site visits at the most dynamic studios, startups, and centers of creativity in New York City.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Only a very small amount of data is needed to produce quite a lot of information about each and every one of us and the law is so far behind the times that according to Facebook’s Deputy General Counselor, Mark Howitson , the social networking website aggressively invites litigation because they need new case law to set precedent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2005

is a project designed by students in Dr. David Gilbert???sOrganizational sOrganizational Communication course at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. s students have produced unofficial audio guides for the Museum of Modern Art and made them available on the Web as podcasts. For Spring Semester, Gilbert???s

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 7, 2024

While decisions regarding whether to focus on prospecting or donor retention are often rooted in economics (prospect in boom times, retain when conditions are rough), leaders at the New York City-based nonprofit see the 2024 election year as an opportune time for bringing on new supporters.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

It was founded in 2001 by a group of college students from all over the world who wanted to ensure that “Never Again” became a reality rather than a rhetorical sound bite. When I returned to the US, I founded the USA chapter in New York City with long-time Never Again member, Marian Hodgkin from the UK.

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