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Using SMS in the Field

NTEN

Brooke Sadowsky, Program Manager, RARE Conservation. SMS allows conservation campaigns to reach a bigger audience, especially of people who are harder to find in rural and expansive areas. SMS allows conservation campaigns to reach a bigger audience, especially of people who are harder to find in rural and expansive areas.

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How Do You Measure Up? [Benchmarks Webinar]

Care2

In 2008, Liz joined Feeding America at the onset of the sweeping organizational brand transformation; and helped guide direct response fundraising efforts through a successful brand transition. Her team raises funds to help secure and distribute more than 200M meals annually for families struggling with hunger.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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How Sticky is Facebook? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Less than 50 of the 179,000 groups on Causes have raised $10,000, and just two – The Nature Conservancy and Students for a Free Tibet -- have raised more then $100,000. June 30, 2009 | Andi Copyright © 2008, Care2.com In todays society, people need to feel connected. All rights reserved.

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The Future of Mobiles for Nonprofits

NTEN

While I was on sabbatical at Tuck/Dartmouth in the spring of 2008, I wrote about the things I learned from students and colleagues. For one generation, it's a conversation like any other conversation; it may even be the dominant form of conversation for today's students. The Dartmouth Green. The phone was the conversation!

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Elevating Advocacy Voices for Children Through Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This helps explain the fiscal conservativeness that guides state spending priorities, despite the. In 2008, the Packard Foundation invited Voices for Utah Children to participate in the Narrative Project , which was designed to change the conversation around children’s. In fact, this year the state is anticipating a budget surplus.

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David Perlmutter Talks Blogs, Interactors, and Jon Stewart - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

2008 is the year in which all the new technologies, techniques, concepts, innovations of so-called new media are being tried. While I was in Washington recently, I visited a former student of mine who creates Web videos for John McCain. What was the most surprising thing you learned from writing this book?