Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Kintera Connect August 15, 2007 I listened in on the call with Kintera folks about their new platform, called Connect. I have become fascinated by the ways the CRM/Fundraising space is changing so rapidly.

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With this in mind, we recently took measures to evolve our community engagement platform, giving people access to a broad set of tools to help them engage and build purpose beyond their day-to-day roles. First launched in 2007, PIMCO’s original volunteer programming was limited, supporting 23 events across various business locations.

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DECEMBER 12, 2006

Ingrid Severson is the lead project organizer of the Rooftop Resources project, a project of the Oakland non-profit Bay Localize. Ingrid: Bay Localize is a non-profit project that started back in December of 2005. What we do is work to build a more socially equitable and sustainable Bay Area. It affects the whole world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Pick a campaign and platform to experiment with integrating social fundraising , but build your network and get organized first. In November, 2011, the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, The United Way of National Capital Area, and the social giving platform, Razoo, hosted a multi-million dollar local giving day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. The morning session focused on the building blocks of strategy – SMART objectives, audience identification, and messaging. Localize and make it relevant. It boils down to audience.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The Make It Your Own program was a grant program in 2007 created by the Case Foundation to promote “citizen centered&# approaches to local community building. One would be hardpressed to find more knowledgeable, thoughtful folks on civic engagement and social media. With nearly 5,000 applicants and more than 15,000 voters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

The Empire State Building and London Eye are among a number of landmarks that will be lit up bright pink to mark the occasion. Although we had been trading letters for two years , I met Sopharath face-to-face in 2007 and recorded this interview. Why girls ? Why is this all important? She graduated from college and is married.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised $2 million in 24 hours using the Razoo platform. Razoo has promoted local giving days, including Twive and Receive and recently announced reaching a milestone of raising $100 million.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2011

Note from Beth: Back in 2007, I presented and attended at the Games for Change Festival. Over the past few years, games and mobile platforms have become more and more important for nonprofits to pay attention to for their communications strategy. We’ll be offering 5 complimentary passes to the most innovative ideas!

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

They are: 1) the new CMS; and 2) the “multicenter” module tailored to confederated organizations (national groups with local chapters) II. In discussing the new Convio “connector” to Salesforce.com, Austin said it was easy to build this connector because Salesforce has published its API openly.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

When I moved to Vancouver in 2007, my employer sent me to the Web of Change Conference (they noticed that their volunteer manager kept asking why the database was broken), where I first encountered the progressive nonprofit tech community. I had learned a lot at the local meetup. I Wanted to Build a Reputation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). has empowered more than 6,000 communities to build local playgrounds in the past few years (far more than the 1,700 it has built directly in 15 years).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

" Local humor aside, the project is exciting: 31 public parks in San Francisco will get free Wi-Fi for at least two years. The donation will cover installation and maintenance of necessary equipment, which will build upon existing free Wi-Fi areas, like City Hall and the San Francisco International Airport.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

In those days, I was " circuit rider " where I traveled around New York State to work with very small local arts councils in rural areas. I was Jill of all trades, assisting with a wide range of technology needs, from training to installing local area networks. (Yes, Can we build a better marketplace? What do you think?

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

TechSoup Asia Asia is a nonprofit collaborative venture between TechSoup Global and its local nonprofit organization partners, Connecting Up Australia and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. The Center was established in 2007 by the Vietnam Scientific Association for Development of Talents, Human Resources.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

We also believed that it would give us the opportunity to frame the communications message in real time - without a filter; therefore, we developed a strategy that involved listening, relationship building, transparency, and message management. After we completed the listening phase, we began the process of relationship building.

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JUNE 14, 2011

One of the figures that inspired the creation of Causes was how much money nonprofits spend on building lists and on fundraising and marketing technology. How do you build a community of even 1,000 people engaged enough to share your campaigns with their friends? Potential Impressions. 150,000 people. Be supporter-centric.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

2] To better understand the skills and knowledge needed by nonprofit professionals, we conducted a needs-assessment study based on surveys of NMI instructors, advisory board members, alumni, and participants in NMI courses since 2007. Creating, Building, and Sustaining Nonprofit Commu. Pollak, T. & Blackwood, A. Washington, D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

And the many, many hyper local and niche causes that touch the lives of their online communities not by the millions, but by the hundreds or thousands everyday. Tags: movement building. There have the been the well discussed successes like DonorsChoose and Lil Green Patch.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

rootwork : I strongly believe list building w/ petitions etc. annanten : @rootwork list building is just a strategy to engage more folks in your campaign. ChristinasWorld : I think campaigning has to do w/achieving a particular end – not building a fb fan page, but using that page to achieve x, y or z. realize_ink : Q1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

You don’t hear about it much anymore, but in 2007 there were many stories of how MySpace was helping bridge the digital divide because low-income youth were logging in and teaching themselves HTML code. The AFL-CIO is non-existent and the Teamsters haven’t logged in since 2007. Think about that for a minute.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Kathleen Rogers has been the NOZAsearch managing director and product manager since 2007. Alice, a development director at a local, mid-sized arts nonprofit, had paid access to NOZA, but she "didn’t have the time" to do any prospect research. NOZAsearch is available through the Blackbaud donation program at TechSoup.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2017

Cross-sector collaboration can be defined as partnerships between nonprofit, private, and government entities working together towards mutual goals to produce change (Simo & Bies, 2007). Build Leadership : The importance of building leadership within the council is one of the core elements of effective cross-sector collaboration.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Our mission is to empower individuals to mobilize their friends for collective action, who then spread the word to their friends, and eventually create movements that span local communities and even the globe. If someone has already started a cause benefiting your organization, get in touch with them and build a relationship.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

The five basic goals of using social media within a website are: Build followers within the nonprofit’s social media spaces. part of a national event to inspire giving and local leadership. The primary goal of the site is to fundraise and build followers. There are five main reasons for integrating social media with a website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. He wanted to raise some money to help the local orchestra and test some ideas. Spreading the word was not a case of “build it and they will come.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

For some organizations, it may be helpful to partner with the local chapter of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program. Overall, the best thing a volunteer manager can do is try to understand and build a close relationship with the volunteers. By providing this training, the organization gains a committed volunteer.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2015

It has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent since 2007, and Cisco wants to bring this reduction up to 40 percent in the next couple of years. These employee-led teams work on local sustainability efforts as well as partner with nonprofit organizations that align with Symantec’s environmental focus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

I got involved with PledgeBank in April 2007, after a chance meeting with Tom Steinberg, mySociety's founder/director, at a conference on e-campaigning in Oxford, England during the winter of 2006. The pledge was successful, and Dana Wefer is on the ballot for the 2007 election. those might be.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 12, 2006

January 10-24, 2007, the artisans' communities will host eight Shunku Llacta volunteers for two weeks. Volunteers will work with community members on projects like building a community center, working with children in local elementary schools, and practicing sustainable forest management work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

July 24, 2007. It takes time, but does show results as the comments on the original Mashable post seem to indicate: Two years ago The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada established a presence on Facebook and incorporated guidelines for our Chapters to establish their local groups. The Long Tail of Facebook Causes. Frogloop Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

She is a co-founding member and serves on the advisory board of the Social Media Club and founder of Every Dot Connects , a consortium of marketing and media practitioners who are passionate about using new technologies to build bridges between people and ideas and causes. You should also be building your own online network.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

One of the events listed is an exhibition of photos at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from the book Celebrating Women by Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed in October 2007). If you live in the Bay Area (like me), the Global Fund for Women has created a calendar of local events. You can find UN-related events on WomenWatch.

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If we keep building our movement this way, we have the potential to fundamentally reshape the political process. You have the opportunity to build the biggest grassroots campaign politics has ever seen. 19 Sep 2007 Michael Hoffman Tim, you are right. They have managed to attract as President, a local wealthy developer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause. One way to build trust is to write with an authentic and personal voice on your organization's blog. What "ways" am I missing?

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