Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

The afternoon keynote focused on philanthropy and bigger thinking than the latest Dell laptop, featuring Google’s Larry Brilliant and author Malcolm Gladwell. I can’t thank the Salesforce Foundation enough for making us feel so welcome. Tuesday night, the Foundation hosted a nonprofit networking event at the Starlight Room.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

What is it like for a nonprofit to have a successful, lasting partnership with a private philanthropic foundation? One foundation that has been a committed supporter of our work is the Lavelle Fund for the Blind. The Lavelle Fund exemplifies the tremendous social return that bold philanthropy can create.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Last year, I couldn't decide and ended up writing the look back as a lessons learned, a personal New Year's resolution post, and a round up of what nonprofit folks had on their minds as they entered 2008: Four Lessons Learned: Social Media and Nonprofits Meme: I listed four lessons learned and tagged four other people.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

The Summit welcomed some of the most impressive individuals and organizations in the nonprofit sector, including Boys & Girls Clubs of America , Mary’s Meals, World Central Kitchen, the Ford Foundation, Greenpeace, Save the Children, and more to speak at the event’s global mainstage, in breakout sessions, and on thought leadership panels. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Source: Philanthropy 2.0 Last week, Geoff Livingston , Qui Diaz and I posted a summary of our findings from our Philanthropy 2.0 Million For 20,000 Charities And NonProfits by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.Com, Washington Post, May 29, 2008. Million and Counting , The Agitator, May 29, 2008. Frogloop Blog. I used a cli.gs

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

“A survey of 200 charity and foundation professionals revealed that nonprofits are finding it difficult to determine how valuable social media tools are for their organizations. Seventy-nine percent said they hadn’t found ways to do so.” – Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 12, 2009. Online giving in 2008 was up 44% from 2007.

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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. As an example, the ‘Millennial Impact Report’ was a study commissioned by the Case Foundation. Qgiv has been fortunate to make wonderful friends over the years. Q: Tell us a bit more about Achieve.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

World Giving Index Charities Aid Foundation looked at three different types of charitable behavior – giving money, giving time and helping a stranger and used the results to produce the “World Giving Index.&# Includes data from Blackbaud , American Red Cross , MobileMarketer.com , and the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Let’s look at the possible factors that caused philanthropy to run wild and capture the attention of so many people, inspire them to participate, and donate to stop the disease. 5) Whacky, Goofy, and Fun: “Stunt Philanthropy” has been around for years. I chronicled some of these back in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

Last conducted in 2008, this study of primarily US foundations found that there was little to no change in the degree to which grantmakers incorporated practices deemed important to the success of grantees. These debates are rooted in some telling assumptions about the evolving field of philanthropy.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2017

If I make a donation to a qualified public charity, operating foundation, school, or even to government, my taxable income decreases by the amount of my donation. Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. He is Editor-in-Chief of Nonprofit Management & Leadership. think tank. Hager earned his Ph.D.

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sgEngage

JUNE 22, 2011

The Giving USA 2011 report is out and the team at The Giving USA Foundation and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University have given plenty of data and statistics to sift through. Family foundations provided approximately 48% of all grants by independent, community, and operating foundations in 2010. and Linda H.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

No one understands the value of pro bono volunteerism , and the benefits to everyone involved more than Lindsay Gruber, President, and CEO of Taproot Foundation. We did a survey of hundreds of professionals during the 2008 and 2009 downturn, and found that often wasn’t the case.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2016

" So wrote Cynthia Gibson, then of the Carnegie Corporation , and Nonprofit Quarterly Editor-in-Chief Ruth McCambridge in a 2008 special issue of that magazine dedicated to infrastructure. Nonprofits and foundations have accomplished a lot. foundations making more than $2.5 That needs to change. million in grants annually.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2011

Council on Foundations ROI Panel. Next, colleague, Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation, talked about their how the foundation has embraced social media as a true experiment. This started in 2008, and as Kathy notes, “We didn’t know what we would learn, or how it would change our own work and our work with grantees.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 4, 2016

She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on such diverse subjects as Program Evaluation & Information Management, International NGOs, and Philanthropy. My main research interest is in individual and institutional philanthropy. I joined ASU in Fall 2008, and it’s been 8 years. Lili Wang, Ph.D.,

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AFP Blog

JULY 5, 2011

They also participate in Jumpstart Our Youth (JOY) -- the state's most comprehensive youth philanthropy program -- with Jobs for Maine's Graduates students statewide. The JOY program was launched in 2008 by the Unity Foundation, which is based in Unity, with funding partners UniTel Inc. and the Maine Community Foundation.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 11, 2009

Fundraisers in the worst economic era since the Great Depression continue to struggle according to a study out this week from the Giving USA Foundation. While an estimated $307 billion dollars was given to charitable causes in 2008; total fundraising declined an inflation adjusted of 5.7% from 2007 levels.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

I am on the board of the Zerodivide Foundation, which is an extremely cool foundation serving the underserved of California with technology. Transformation A core foundation of our institutional vision has always been to deliver relevant, impactful community-based philanthropy. We're seeking new board members.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

According to t he 2008 Cone Cause Evolution Study, 79% of respondents said they would switch brands (provided price and quality were equal) to the one that is associated with a good cause. Everyone from Exxon to Wal-Mart have initiatives that engage non-profits and local communities. Enter Cause Marketing.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

Some other foundations provide resources for nonprofits to develop their evaluation knowledge, such as the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook. Room for Improvement: Foundation’s Support of Nonprofit Performance Assessment. The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Sources: 1. Carman, J.G. & Fredericks, K.A.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2010

billion (almost 5%) according the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College. between 2008 and 2009, according to the 2010 e-Benchmark study , though the report did note that online revenue for half of the nonprofits included in the study either held steady with 2008 or declined.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 28, 2017

Under pressure from multiple stakeholders, nonprofits tend to prioritize accountability to donors, foundations and governments over accountability to clients and the populations served by the organization (Ebrahim, 2003). Retrieved from The Center for Effective Philanthropy website: [link] 08/CEP-Hearing-from-Those-We-Seek-to-Help.pdf.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Don't Let $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation Slip Away! Sharing Foundation Has Supporters in Finland. Why Nhung Sun, A Cambodian Blogger, Supports The Sharing Foundation. Teaching Your Kids About Philanthropy. Why Is Pharoth Wearing A Foo Camp T-Shirt? Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. Micro Fundraising and Trust.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2008, the Points of Light Foundation and the Salesforce Foundation conceived HandsOn Connect — a native Salesforce application designed specifically to make volunteering easier for employees and nonprofits — in a series of whiteboard sessions in San Francisco. Connect with her on LinkedIn , Medium , and Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

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. Vincent Stehle is a regular columnist for The Chronicle of Philanthropy and a member of the Board of Directors of Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

I started 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa with the simple goal of working fulltime on Social Actions by July 1st. To reach that goal, I pulled together a talented team, attracted some financial resources, and logged thousands of virtual and real world miles spreading my vision for the micro-philanthropy sector.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! The Future is You: Philanthropy in the 21st Centur. Pollak, T. & Blackwood, A.

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Care2

JANUARY 5, 2011

Social network site usage for this demographic has quadrupled since 2008, from 4% to 16%. There are only a few organizations such as the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation that publically say they will close up shop after they meet their ultimate mission (finding a cure). What age groups are they comprised of?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Those of us who have planned, executed and evaluated these types of contests for good on behalf of major brands have done so with the best intentions and not to “cause wash” — i.e., buy good brand karma under the guise of philanthropy. Amazon, in 2005, and Google, in 2008, learned the hard way.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Major gifts come from three primary sources: (1) Corporations (2) Foundations (3) Individuals. According to the annual GivingUSA Foundation statistics (PDF) charitable giving in the U.S. topped $307 billion in 2008. Foundations: $41.2 While foundation and corporate giving play a major role in U.S. billion (5%).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Weber Shandwick released the results of a survey of 200 nonprofit and foundation executives to explore how their organizations (range of budgets) are using social media and the value they derive from these efforts. The other survey, implemented by Philanthropy Action, focuses on midsized nonprofits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 9, 2008

In May 2008, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported that six groups (Fetzer Institute, Ford Foundation, Hidden Leaf Foundation, Jewish Funds for Justice, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and Seeds of Justice Foundation) had formed the Seasons Fund for Social Transformation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

More than a million tax-exempt organizations exist in the United States, including public charities, private foundations, and civic organizations—not counting the 220,000 religious congregations that are also registered. However, the traditional reliance of nonprofits on governmental and charitable funding is increasingly unsustainable.

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See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Michael Hoffman MAR 12, 2008 Why do people give charity?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Since leaving the foundation last year, Ted has been a whirling dervish, starting a consulting firm , authoring a new book -- People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 Melanie Guin MNM www.charitynetusa.com/blog September 16, 2008 | melanie Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Gives me hope! All rights reserved.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

One large local organization that has made tremendous strides in their governance is the Arizona Sports Foundation, which operates the Fiesta and Buffalo Wild Wings bowl games. Does your nonprofit need board governance assistance? The ASU Lodestar Center can help! Sources: 1.

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