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Nature Conservancy Instagram Contest and Other Examples

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of my blog readers, Sarah Mowry, Outreach Director for the Deschutes Land Trust pointed me to Nature Conservancy’s Instagram contest , an image scavenger hunt. How much good will is generated by those contributed and by the winners of the contest whose works will be posted on the Nature Conservancy’s FB and Tumblr.

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Using SMS in the Field

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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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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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Biggest Bang for Your Buck - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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The test took two cells of similar prospect groups and sent the control group their standard series of two self-mailers while soliciting the test group with a four-part email series. Like any fabulously interesting test, this one left me with a few burning questions: How were prospect names gathered for the test and control?

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Launched in 2008 to assist individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches to societal challenges, the program has invited proposals around a single topic since 2017. Open Society Foundations announces 2021 fellows. September 23, 2021 The Open Society Foundations has announced the 2021 cohort of Open Society Fellows.

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

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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. Just last night I took a goofy test that was on the screen and before my eyes 2 people were "invited" by me to take the test.

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Guest Post: Shaking up the Ecological Landscape

Museum 2.0

2, 2008) will be offered as a free webcast on Jan. We have also worked with James Chung and Susie Wilkening of Reach Advisors to create a somewhat more conservative forecast of the future of museums in twenty-five years: Museums and Society 2034: Threats and Potential Futures.

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