A philanthropist is anyone who gives anything — time, money, experience, skills, and networks — in any amount, to create a better world. This course will empower you to practice philanthropy more effectively and make your giving more meaningful to both you and those you strive to help. Giving 2.0: The MOOC, is a Stanford University-sponsored online course intended to teach givers of all ages, backgrounds, incomes and experiences to give more effectively. Taught by social entrepreneur, philanthropist and bestselling author Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Giving 2.0: The MOOC will teach you how to assess nonprofits, create a high-impact philanthropic strategy, volunteer more effectively, use existing, free technology for good and more. Giving 2.0: The MOOC is a six-module course. Each module has a particular theme and 5-10 content-packed and activity-rich, videos exploring that theme. Videos will include lectures from Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen as well as interviews, discussions and lectures given by guest speakers. Guest speakers are renowned leaders in multiple industries including philanthropy, technology and business, who will provide unique insights into course topics. Course participants will have the opportunity to join Talkabouts – small virtual meeting groups created to discuss class-related topics. By the course’s conclusion, course participants will have created an Individual Giving Action Plan to guide their future giving in a highly effective and meaningful way. Course participants will also complete a formal nonprofit assessment and be provided with ongoing, post-MOOC philanthropy education content that will support continued development and execution of their philanthropic goals.
Guest Speaker: Caroline Barlerin - Twitter for Good
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奉献2.0：大规模在线开放课程
104 個評分
從本節課中
Giving with Greater Meaning
This module centers on discovering the many, diverse ways course participants can leverage their unique philanthropic resources to create the impact they want to have. We have numerous guest speakers sharing their expertise in this module – review the lessons that interest you before moving on to module 6.
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Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
My name is Caroline Barlerin and
I have the coolest job at the entire company of Twitter.
I get to oversee all the community outreach and
philanthropy programs here at Twitter.
Mother Teresa has a quote that is, do small things with great love.
And I think that that is a really phenomenal approach for one's life, and
one that I try to practice personally.
I think it's also a really good approach for philanthropy and
figuring out how to use social networks to give back.
So do, the do part is really critical of doing things.
But small things with great love, means that you don't have to start big, but
you can start really small.
Let's start with the word philanthropy.
The word philanthropy, what's the origin of that word?
It's a Latin word, and it really means loving people.
So the idea of people, and networks to give back,
and loving people, is a really, really important idea.
And I think that when you're looking at philanthropy,
there's the importance of finding your passion and figuring out what that is.
So really go wide and then learning about that issue area, and so
going deep, and technology can really help you do that.
But then you're gonna contribute.
And you may contribute time, you may contribute money,
you also may just contribute, kind of, your social network of really
helping spread the word about the passion area you care about.
And all of those are really, really important.
There is a young girl, Vivienne Harr, for example.
So at eight years old, she learned about the issue of human slavery,
about child slavery.
And it really upset her, at eight years old.
And so what did she do?
She did what maybe an eight year old would typically do.
She opened up a lemonade stand and
started selling lemonade to raise money to help kids with slavery.
And through doing this work herself with people, but
also with a bit of technology, fast forward, Vivienne was able to,
in about two years time, actually create her own lemonade company.
And now at age ten she's opened her own technology with using, creating,
a Make a Stand application to help other people make a stand around
issues they care about.
So Vivienne's a great example of one person,
one eight year old who cares about an issue,
using technology to help get the word out, and having a really powerful story.
Just to tell another story, Mark Horvath was formerly homeless in LA.
So, he was a marketing executive in Los Angeles and
found himself on Hollywood Boulevard, homeless.
And felt really, really alone.
And uncovered social media,
uncovered technology as a way of figuring out how to tell his story.
But then realized that there were a lot of stories that weren't being told.
So he started an organization called Invisible People.
And if you hear about Mark Horvath's story, it's really fantastically powerful,
about the role technology can play to get your word out and
tell your story in an important way.
And I think storytelling is really, really key.
So storytelling is just not saying, hey, join me cuz I care about it, but
thinking about what makes for a good story.
So is it something that causes crisis or tension?
Or something that's very timely, something that's just a surprise that just happened,
and how can you capitalize on that?
And Twitter's a great tool for doing that because it's real time.
So it's a great opportunity to kind of harness that time, and
tell your story in a meaningful way, and get it out there through your networks.
So if Vivienne Harr, an 8 year old girl,
can help make a stand against slavery, and Mark Horvath can have technology
help him go from homelessness to an advocate against homelessness.
I think that is a good reminder that anyone, anyone,
can use technology to be a philanthropist and give back in a really meaningful way.
And I think the word democratizing of technology is really, really incredible,
because technology has shifted where the power is.
So a role of Twitter means that you can send a message directly to
the President of the United States, you could send a message to anyone.
And people are more accessible to you than they ever have before.
So rather than even getting your news from the traditional newscasters or
the news forums, you can make news, and create news, and tell your story.
I mean, we saw that at Ferguson, we've seen that with Arab Spring,
we've seen that a lot of places.
And so this kind of, you own the power to make change by using technology like
Twitter is a great example of democratization of technology.
Back to Mark Horvath with Invisible People,
he talks about this one teenage youth who's homeless in LA, who he met.
And I think her name is Belinda.
And Belinda got connected to Invisible People and has technology.
A lot of homeless people do have technology.
And when she's sleeping in the alley by herself, she tweets and says, I'm
glad to know that I'm not alone because I have all of you all here with me.
So I think that technology can help people feel more connected and closer.
But I don't know if that connection can stop at technology.
I think that there needs to be real world connection,
I think that's really important.
So, a lot of the conversations about what's going on in Arab Spring, or
what's going on in Ferguson, are things that may start online, but
then continues around our kitchen table, continues at the bus stop.
And I think that those conversations, and making those connections
is really important, so we stay connected, rather than just thinking that we're
connected through technology, but we also need to have human connection as well.
I think the power and tools, the power of Twitter is,
you're able to amplify your voice.
But you are also able to hear other people's voices.
And you're able to curate those voices you care about.
And I think that what's powerful and
important is to embrace the diversity of those voices.
And break down boundaries and kind of build bridges across things,
to understand things better.
And that's kind of what we're trying to do here in mid-market at Twitter,
is we're trying to get Twitter more in the community and
the community more in Twitter.
They gotta break down this barriers and build bridges as well.
And technology does part of it, but it's also people.
So that love of people, that philanthropy is really, really important and
technology is a tool that you're gonna use to do it,
but it's really the people behind the tool.
I'm excited about the way Twitter will continue to unlock social change,
social impact, and philanthropy around the world.
Because I think at the core of philanthropy is making connection
to community, and I think Twitter's a really powerful vehicle for doing that.
And so I think that we're still early days in what Twitter is and
what Twitter will be.
And I think that Twitter can be a really powerful tool for philanthropy, and
the future of what social impact's gonna look like and
social innovation in the world.
If they're taking this class, they're interested in understanding, kind of,
the role that technology can play in philanthropy.
And I think if we wake up every morning and
we read the paper, there's a lot of challenges going on in the world.
And I think each of us has a responsibility of figuring out what
role we wanna play and what impact we wanna make,
wherever that may be, but life is not a spectator sport.
I think that we all need to play and we need to roll up our sleeves and do our
part, and technology enables you to even do it in a more meaningful way, I think.
But like I said, the do small things with great love,
the do part is really important.
So there's not the armchair activism, just like, or follow, or tweet, or retweet,
but it's also the going out and taking some risks and learning and growing and
speaking out for things you care about.
I'm excited to be part of the MOOC to help see what
you will do with this great class to help harness it.
Because once again, do small things with great love and you will do great
things because every avalanche starts with just a couple snowflakes.
