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Bitcoin for Nonprofits: Cryptocurrency Fundraising for the Future

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Bitcoin was launched on January 3, 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis and bank bailouts. Those nonprofits that have an active strategy to engage the cryptocurrency community has seen significantly are the most likely to succeed in the early adoption phase. Let’s start with the basics. Why does that matter?

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

So, to help these ideas come to life, our next phase will focus on working directly with farmers and those in the field to get their feedback, and shape a useful, scalable, sustainable solution. Senior Program Manager, Oxfam America. Eric manages the Food and Climate Justice Unit at Oxfam America, part of the Food Systems Unit.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Netroots community is built around progressive politics in America. On the day of the 2008 US elections, the Obama campaign was able to assign trimmed down telecalling lists to volunteers by ticking off the names of the people who had already voted. The social object can be a person, a place, a thing or an idea. The Obama Girl.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. QUESTIONS ABOUT RESISTANCE TO CHANGE 5.

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Answers to the Ten Questions I am Most Often Asked

Museum 2.0

In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. QUESTIONS ABOUT RESISTANCE TO CHANGE 5.

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Guest Post by Tom Dawkins: Ashoka’s use of Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We have gone through a few key phases in the first year, from working hard for nine months to build our first 10,000 connections and then being placed on the Twitter Suggested Users list and racing to the more than 300,000 we now have. Conversations focus on next steps and areas for further exploration.

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

Bloomerang

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. From 2018 - 2020, she served as the Director of Communications for the Public Relations Society of America's local Hoosier chapter. How many of y’all remember the housing bubble bursting in the U.S. Oh, my gosh. I’ve been watching this for weeks.