Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 18, 2008

One of the things I've realized while doing the 29-Day Giving Challenge is that I "volunteer" a lot of free advice for organizations and individuals, but I haven't volunteered in my community for a long time. Maybe together we can start up again during National Volunteer Week April 27-May 3, 2008. How often do you volunteer?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

that produced dozens of stories about what local small businesses on Main Street’s across America do that can inspire big businesses on Wall Street – or Madison Avenue megabrands, or enterprise of any size -- in today’s economy. Just imagine how intriguing it would be to hear stories about six road trips. Six road trips across the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

research, a survey of the giving habits of the social media savvy, over at Mashable. A common critic of online giving through social media is that the dollar amounts are too low per donor and donations tend to be transactional, not relationship-based or one-time donors. Causes Reports On Its First Year - $2.5 Frogloop Blog.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2014

that produced dozens of stories about what local small businesses on Main Street’s across America do that can inspire big businesses on Wall Street – or Madison Avenue megabrands, or enterprise of any size -- in today’s economy. Just imagine how intriguing it would be to hear stories about six road trips. Six road trips across the U.S.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 2, 2014

that produced dozens of stories about what local small businesses on Main Street’s across America do that can inspire big businesses on Wall Street – or Madison Avenue megabrands, or enterprise of any size -- in today’s economy. Just imagine how intriguing it would be to hear stories about six road trips. Six road trips across the U.S.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. This rule change will give more than 18 million low-income Americans $9.25-a-month "There are many groups, locally and nationally, making real impact around digital skills and access to devices. This past year, U.S. Privacy and Security. Nice 10-year prediction, Phil.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

So to with our first ever ranking of the nation’s most generous cities when it comes to online giving. I chatted with a nonprofit executive last week as we let her know that Austin ranked 7th on the list when it comes to per capita online giving. They also point to trends and issues that are often of interest to people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin. Citizen journalists have repeatedly emerged as critical in crisis reporting and several citizen journalist platforms have emerged to harness their potential to report hyper-local news. The Obama Girl. What About You?

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

billion in 2008 to $29.8 ” In contrast, NARAL Pro-Choice America continues to use direct mail to fundraise, but has noted a decline in its effectiveness lately. “For all our online donors, only one-third give a subsequent gift online,” said Donahue. “The other two thirds give via the mail and phones.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

New giving methods for your nonprofit. So now I’ll let Matt give a quick highlight to you and then we’ll get into the agenda. So diving in here, “Forbes” published an article pretty recently that revealed some interesting trends that we’re seeing and shifts in these giving tendencies.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Also, wed like to give a shout out to the wonderful people at OneWorld.net and Interaction who also sponsored todays event. Use mini celebs - a columnist in a local newspaper or magazine may not be a global sensation, but he or she does have a large, captive audience. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

When I think about what my grandparents ate, and what their parents ate, they ate food that was as fresh as being harvested that day, as local as their backyard garden, and as seasonal as whatever was in season. At the end of 2008, I initiated a new project called the Grow. They were sharing food and bartering. Grub Project.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

New giving methods for your nonprofit. So now I’ll let Matt give a quick highlight to you and then we’ll get into the agenda. So diving in here, “Forbes” published an article pretty recently that revealed some interesting trends that we’re seeing and shifts in these giving tendencies. This is going to be a cool one.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 5, 2020

100% of the $1.75M in proceeds they raised went to Feeding America. Think about how you might send messages of thanks to frontline workers, or messages of solidarity to your stakeholders in the region, and then send that user to a confirmation giving page. Live Stream Giving. Thank Frontline Workers. Virtual Trivia Night.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

Connect emotionally to your supporters and they'll give! Make them see the issue in human terms and they'll give more! Other academic research has found a related trend: individuals are more willing to give to save one person than to save thousands. Recognize that these stories aren't enough to compel someone to give.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

We take the kids there regularly to shop at the Cambodian grocery store, get our haircuts at the Cambodian beauty shop, and eat some beef lo lac at one of the local restaurants. In the grocery store, I saw the above fund raising campaign to support a local temple. College students get typhoid immunization as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

In 2007, Javier was kind enough to give me a tour of their office and introduce me to the awesome women on his staff working on Khmer localization of linux and gender blogging. I also reconnected with Louise Coventry who I met in Australia in 2008 at the Connecting Up Conference. All in all, it was a exciting evening.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. And so at any point, if you have a question, a comment, you want to just co-sign, give me a plus one, please keep your chat up so that we can keep talking and I’ll be looking at it while I’m going through my slides. So just always have to give him props.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

This time we’ll report on some climate change news, the TrashOut app, the difference between cloud backup and cloud storage, the heartbleed bug, a green energy innovation in Latin America that works – and another one that doesn’t, and the epic digital inclusion drone wars being waged by Google and Facebook. That's it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation on July 2, 2008. It took us about 15 years in America before cell phones actually took off, and people started buying a cell phone.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Last week, after the election, BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone, asked What Will You Do To Change America? On October 21, 2008, I interviewed Marianne Manilov, the National Team Leader at The Engage Network, about their work. That email list is going to give you updates once a quarter. Maybe you're going to give money.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 19, 2022

Some saw a significant decline in services due to supply chain needs, while others reported an increase in demand and giving. The CDC Foundation shared in our joint success story their journey from a donor database of 42,000 donors to over 150,000 in just a few months, and individual giving increased by 2,403%. Selective Giving.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

On April 15, 2008 I talked with Janessa Goldbeck, the Director of Membership at the Genocide Intervention Network, about what we can all do about genocide. BB: Can you give an example or tell a success story of how an individual, or a small group was able to make a positive impact to prevent, or to work against a genocide that was happening?

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

There's a long fight ahead, but for issues that stir you, one simple, positive thing you can do today is give - your time, money, voice, or attention - because so many organizations need your urgent support. That’s why we empower local leaders to build a strong movement for equality that secures critical grassroots wins at every level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

What I love about this project is that it is giving a different lens and context to think about social media for social good. Shel tells the story of the holiday season 2008, when the city of Toronto Transit Authority canceled its New Year's eve free-ride transportation due to budget pressures. Photo by Martin Heigan.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Editors’ note: This article is from the Summer 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly , “Owning Our Economy, Owning Our Future. ”.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

It benefits the grassroots business, it benefits me, it gives me an opportunity to sell and talk about the crisis or cause that I'm backing and, it also benefits the organization that I'm supporting. We put together a week-long curriculum to really help people do just that: find their purpose and then give them the skills.

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

Well organize local press events, face-to-face visits with members of Congress, and a national day of action to keep the heat on Congress and show how clean energy jobs can revive our communities. ” “Yes, Ill chip in monthly “- Takes you to a monthly giving page. We can change this! All rights reserved.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

So, we have been working very hard with the City Council, and with community colleges and local labor unions and others to come up with a proposal that will start in September as an actual program called "The Green Jobs Corps." And the Democrats want to be the fiscal conservatives in 2008 who want to run against Bush's mega deficit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

I love listening to Barack Obama's podcasts because he gives me hope that there is at least one person in the US government who is reasonable, sane, intelligent and truly cares about people as humans, not just as voters who can keep him in or out of office. Its a whole new world. They were proud of their service.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think what makes us unique is that we are really investing in women's leadership and women's creativity in developing local solutions to some of the world's most challenging problems. Maybe the best way to give you an analogy for that is when you drop a stone into a pond, it creates a ripple effect.

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