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Beth Kanter's keynote presentation at the 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit.
Many Americans know the familiar rituals that accompany a military funeral - a eulogy is spoken, taps is played, the flag is folded, and three rifle volleys are fired. Many of these images flash on television on Memorial Day, and we see solemn...
Is it just me, or does there seem to be a rash of natural disasters in recent years, that have devastated huge parts of the world, leaving communities in desperate need of external help and aid to recover and rebuild? Now, weeks after the March 11...
Here's a question Beth Kanter gets all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media?
With millions of videos floating around on the Web, JD Lasica would like to make the case today for a genre that has received far too little attention: digital storytelling. Digital storytelling is a craft that uses the tools of digital technology...
If used correctly, #hashtags can be very useful to nonprofits on Twitter. Hashtags allow your organization to participate and inspire conversations (and in the process get new followers) and organize the Twitterverse around campaigns (#climatechange...
Social media, as many have said time and again, is only part of your campaigning, part of your fundraising, and part of your communications. It isn’t something that lives in its own department, nor does it have staff that are separate from the rest...
And now the moment you have all been waiting for... The results of this year’s DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards are in! After enduring a tough competition with over 1,300 videos from over 800 organizations, an expert panel of judges and more than 24,...
The conversation of pro bono from the legal sector has caught fire in the corporate sector during the last two years as corporations look for new ways to positively impact the nonprofit sector. The increasing number of corporations seeking out...
Earlier this week, corporate philanthropy and social responsibility took center stage at yet another sold-out annual Corporate Philanthropy Summit, organized by the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy. While the broad theme of the...
Today, on International Corporate Philanthropy Day, the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy is challenging its membership of over 150 leading corporate CEOs to take the uncomfortable step of thinking about what the world—and environment for...