sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

An operating reserve can help ensure that an organization can continue its vital programming activities even during uncertain economic conditions. Restricted funds can only be used for the specific purpose or time the donor intended and are typically tied to an individual program, project, fiscal year, or permanent endowment.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Achieve was founded in 2008 and started off working in the nonprofit sector primarily in research, strategy, and fundraising. We love what we do and enjoy being able to connect and leverage our combined experience to help organizations succeed. Qgiv has been fortunate to make wonderful friends over the years.

Florida 52

Florida Social Media Technique Indianapolis 52

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 15, 2012

In 2008, I wrote a post arguing that museums should focus on the pre-visit, not the post-visit, if they want to capture and retain visitors. I said: In many ways, the ability to successfully set a powerful and useful expectation for museum experiences is MORE valuable than the ability to extend said experience. Let me explain.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 7, 2011

The time is ripe for the early adopters in the nonprofit sector to embrace m-Advocacy, otherwise known as mobile advocacy. That said, in terms of online dollars raised for your nonprofit, e-mail is still queen and activism reasons aside, becoming a pioneer of m-advocacy to help build your e-newsletter list is a smart, uber timely move.

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Advocacy Mobile Nonprofit Adopt 223

NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

It's fun to play with, engaging for constituents and has helped us raise 28% more funds online since this time last year. Offline activities. You can create groups based on first donation dates and thank constituents for donating to you over that time even if they only signed up to receive your e-Newsletter this month.

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Texas Personal Online Experiment 80

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

Social media skeptics often say that it’s a waste of time to utilize social networking sites because they are here today, and then gone tomorrow. It was vibrant, active, kind and generous. At the same time I created the Nonprofit Organizations YouTube Channel. Social networking communities are migrant communities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

There are more than 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices and that number grows daily. In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide. 3) Nonprofits as Real-time Reporters via Social Media and Mobile Devices: This is a dramatic shift in Web communications.

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Social Media Mobile Media Myspace 197

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How much time generally passes between major or minor releases? Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. How busy is it? How easily or quickly does it seem that questions get answered? When was the last release?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

I haven’t been this hooked on a new social networking site since I first got on Twitter in June 2008, and based on recent data released by comScore and Hitwise, Pinterest traffic is soaring. Business always underestimate the fact the nonprofits are some of the most active early adopters on the Web. Repin your first Pin.

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Profile Nonprofit Twitter Social Network 259

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Why are Silicon Valley community-based nonprofits struggling to meet demand, and having a hard time maintaining their organizational health? Silicon Valley philanthropy is increasing: Individual giving rose 150 percent between 2008 and 2013, from $1.9 And these nonprofits have a very hard time accessing this new philanthropy.

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Create Philanthropy Alexa Local 99

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

I figured it was time to give my final assessment. Here are the good things: Even macs get weird sometimes, especially if they’ve been on for a long time. The only time I shut down this laptop is when I’m taking it somewhere, which is relatively rarely. I love apt-get/aptitude. coming out in October.

Ubuntu 100

Ubuntu Open Source Calendar Integration 100

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 13, 2020

America has a long and rich history of national service, often turning to it as a powerful lever in times of crisis, as it did after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Great Recession of 2008. posted by Jaime Ernesto Uzeta, CEO, Public Allies. First published on Ozy.com. Now should be no different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

Here’s how it works, according to their recent Facebook and Tumblr posts: The Nature Conservancy has used photo contests to crowdsource photos from its network through social media in the post, as far back as 2008 when it ran a contest on Flickr. There are some obvious benefits: Engaging its network beyond the like on Facebook.

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Conservancy Contest Examples Congo 107

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

And, for all of that time, the Macintosh has been my primary desktop. I’ve tried making Linux my primary desktop many times (5 at last count.) More recently (last time I tried this was back in 2004) it was not being able to sync with the palm treo I had at the time. This is the 6th, and last time I will do this.

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Ubuntu Open Source Laptop Open 100

NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

Jumo’s received a very warm welcome and a lot of press being that the founder Chris Hughes was also the co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign. You can even extend the giving experience to your personal website with their giving widget. 6) 1% Club – [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

In May of 2008 when I joined The Lumpkin Family Foundation I was given the challenge to figure out how to develop a network to support the nonprofit capacity building work of The Foundation in downstate Illinois. We need to do more experiments to actively work to get The Foundation out of the center of the hub.

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Roles Illinois Evaluation Boston 88

Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2020

Are your donors engaged and have they stood by you through these unprecedented times? I first heard Penelope Burk speak at the International Conference of the Association of Donor Relations Professionals in 2008. Inevitably, the instant anyone walks through the doors of any of our hospitals, you experience ‘the feels.’

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. We manage continuing education (CE) credit transactions: a learner completes a CE activity and receives CE credit, or “credit hours,” in return.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

We are living in a time of noisy revolution on the streets, from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park. This year’s Academy Award winning film – Inside Job – is one of the most powerful descriptions of what went wrong leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. The system of making and distributing documentary films is changing rapidly.

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Guatemala Movie Artist Award 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

On the other hand, the growth mindset is about learning how to improve from setbacks. These people are willing to take more risks since challenging experiences are chance to grow and that their performance on every task is not a reflection on their intelligence. What did we learn from the experience? Was it anticipated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5

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New York Profile Argentina New York City 104

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

My experience searching for Bob is concrete evidence of the helpfulness of various social networking sites (SNS) like LinkedIn and Facebook. 1] (In 2008, 26% of adults used an SNS.) This is significantly higher than the 65% of Americans that belonged to at least one voluntary group in 2008." To the rescue: LinkedIn.

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Research Social Network Internet Linkedin 70

Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

college town, Oberlin played a crucial role in the Underground Railroad, as well as acting as a hotbed of abolitionism, women’s activism and. Unfortunately, when several people logged onto the databases at the same time, server. performance would lag, leading to frustrating experiences for visitors. Now a small.

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Technology Ohio Database Museum 47

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Astronaut Ron Garan How can you not read a book that starts out, " I have wanted to write this book since returning to Earth from my first space mission in 2008 "? For Garan, living on the International Space Station (ISS) was a transformative experience – one he believes that can help us solve the world’s toughest crises.

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Russia Global Collaboration Leadership 40

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

This is because all providers start out with some personal experiences or biases, and most are too busy taking care of clients to spend lots and lots of time gaining new expertise in a broad range of topics – they need to focus. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter. Ubuntu is based on Debian).

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. Ze was really hands-on with everyone, giving hugs, taking photos, jumping in to do activities with participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

” This was one of the reasons why I wanted to write the book, “ The Networked Nonprofit ,” with co-author Alison Fine back in 2008-09. I noticed a big change in 2010, the year the book was published. One of my all time favorite Clay Shirky quotes: “When the technology gets boring, it becomes socially interesting.”

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Social Network Network Social Online 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

Stories come out experimenting, helping people find their voices or the confidence or the desire to take an action, volunteer their time, or raise money for a cause they care about. The experiment called the Giving Challenge was: A 50 day event from December 2007 through January 2008.

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America Social Network Challenge Reflection 91

Forum One

MAY 4, 2010

Their report covers a lot of e-marketing campaign metrics, and attempts to really break down the differences between active subscribers of a campaign vs. users who do not take such an active role in terms of participating (e.g. donating money). The findings mirror many of benchmarks in the Convio report.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time?

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Our campaign managers in the field have been experimenting with using SMS to reach target audiences to spread news and information, campaign messages, and news about campaign activities. Leverage existing Mobicom best practices on best times of day to send messages. Brooke Sadowsky, Program Manager, RARE Conservation.

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Mongolia Conservancy Laos Thailand 72

Forum One

JUNE 16, 2009

In 2008 TwitterVoteReport attempted to provide real-time election monitoring as US citizens posted voting experiences to their Twitter feeds. Katrin Verclas' Twitterfeed - actively amplifying the news out of Iran. Facebook: Mousavi on Facebook (via rwanderman ). Protest Iran Election. Twitter: #iranelection. Ahmadinejad.

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Iran Beginner Boston Social Media 52

Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Some Federal agencies are experimenting with fascinating approaches to public engagement online, even in the absence of specific guidance about how they should approach these online opportunities. They designed the event with the goal of sharing lessons from agencies who have some early experiences. Drinking from the Firehose?

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Government Open Strategy Teen 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The third C, Community, refers to the idea that social media facilitates sustained collaboration around a shared idea, over time and often across space. The notion of a community is really tricky because every web page is a latent community, waiting to be activated. The 4Cs Social Media Framework Applied to Digital Activism.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Care2

AUGUST 8, 2008

Care2 Senior Campaigner Natasha Nummedal and Maureen McGregor, Oceana’s Manager of E-Activism and Marketing share some of their keys to success in maximizing email response rates and converting email subscribers into donors. Maureen McGregor is the E-activism Director at Oceana. But it’s not always easy. ocean waters.

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Social Media Advocacy South Carolina email 28

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

In June of 2007, nearly over 35% of Facebook traffic came the 18-24 year old segment, compared to around 22% in June 2008. They started with a survey to examine people's experience using social networks. An individual's social network (online or offline) is divided into three groups: PANs = Potentially Active Network.

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Social Network Network Professional Fun 63