EveryAction

MARCH 8, 2023

About the author Mark founded Cathexis Partners in 2008, providing technical and consultative services to nonprofits of all sizes and types. He previously served as director of IT consulting at a fundraising event production company focused on nonprofits.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In the height of the 2008 recession, skills-based volunteering exploded across the corporate and nonprofit sectors. As a diverse swath of organizations are looking for of infrastructure supports, skills-based models must be diversified to meet changing sector needs, just as they did in 2008. New Skills-Based Volunteering Models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A few weeks back I met Melinda Venable, Associate Director Digital and Ethnic Media at Resource Media who told me about the ClimateChangeUS Twitter strategy. . The use of social media is part of a larger strategy to inform the public about the impacts of climate change, not just at the North Pole, but in their backyards.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 25, 2019

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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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. Keeping donors engaged and giving during uncertain times can often feel like a challenging balancing act, but new technologies and strategies are available to keep us centered.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. Using more than two hashtags is not a good growth or engagement strategy on Twitter. Be more generous and strategic in your follow back strategy. Don’t be a #hashtag #spammer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I wanted to give some encouragement to all the small and medium-sized nonprofits out there on the Social Web that tweet, share and post regularly with the hope of growing their communities and inspiring social good – some feedback I received last week from Line Storgaard-Conley, Director of Digital and Social Media Strategy at Safe Kids Worldwide (..)

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2023

Instead , they pursue a variety of other strategies centering on litigation, education, and industry-wide advocacy. Similarly, the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) has pursued a legal strategy of suing restaurant owners for wage violations and used the legal settlement process as an opportunity to negotiate additional rights for workers.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 26, 2024

Author: Mark Becker, Founding Partner, Cathexis Partners Mark founded Cathexis Partners in 2008, providing technical and consultative services to nonprofits of all sizes and types. If your campaign met most of your goals, maybe you should focus on making sure your next fundraising campaign doesn’t leave money on the table.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program. Changed from brochure to interactive website, multi-facteed file building strategy and acquired over 1000 new names per month and have converted about 1% to donors in 6 weeks. Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Edwin Shneidman (left) at his home in Los Angeles, California with Maurizio Pompili, who was the recipient of the 2008 Shneidman Award. By this point, suicide was a global health issue, and the United Nations and World Health Organization had worked to establish guidelines for suicide prevention strategies. However, the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. And finally, Chris Brogan focused on needs for 2008. What are the nptech social media needs for 2008? As we move into 2008, one last reflection, what are you lessons learned about Nonprofits and Social Media ? Let's take a look.

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DipJar

AUGUST 24, 2021

The idea for the first DipJar came from founder Ryder Kessler in 2008 as a way to tip coffee shop baristas. “We know how challenging this past year has been for our customers – the pandemic forced so many to adapt their strategies to reach and engage with donors. And man, how it has grown since then!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2015

What comes to mind when you think of nonprofit strategy? Every nonprofit needs strategy: it’s essential to making mindful choices. Strategy is a set of unified actions undertaken to advance a nonprofit’s mission by leveraging its competitive advantage. [1]. Here are a few tips to help your nonprofit think about strategy: 1.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies. All rights reserved.

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NetWits

OCTOBER 3, 2012

President Barack Obama raised nearly $410 million dollars through individual contributions in 2008.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2019

Since 2008, SEFCU’s Community Support Program has helped more than seven million people within its branch footprint – which includes upstate New York’s Capital Region, Binghamton, Syracuse and Buffalo areas – through funding vital nonprofit organizations. with more than $3.7

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010. I am full-time and paid, though, like everyone else in the non-profit world, my time/resources are limited, so I don’t get to do social media strategy/long-term planning all day long. That would be me!

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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. Given that they were the children of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, they didn’t have the income to support significant giving. Q: Tell us a bit more about Achieve.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

Mark founded Cathexis Partners in 2008, providing technical and consultative services to nonprofits of all sizes and types. For instance, include videos of your top fundraisers offering tips on strategies that have worked well for them. This guest post comes from Mark Becker, founder of Cathexis Partners.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

Blogging was the missing piece in my social media strategy. Online giving in 2008 was up 44% from 2007. Early estimates for 2009 show an increase in online donations of 46% from 2008. I was a reluctant blogger. I only launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 seven months ago. I didn’t think the world needed another blogger.

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Double the Donation

JUNE 10, 2021

Peer-to-peer campaigns are a key part of many nonprofits’ fundraising strategies. by Mark Becker, Founding Partner, Cathexis Partners. If you’re running peer-to-peer campaigns, it’s important to strike a balance between growing your peer-to-peer fundraising programs and working with limited resources. .

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 27, 2017

The American spirit has long been rooted in entrepreneurial success (Acs et al, 2008). When one strategy, method, or product starts to plateau, there is room for a new strategy, method, or product, as a means of increasing revenue. Allowing opportunities to be optimized is an entrepreneurial act. Sources: Arcs, Z., Phillips, R.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

This discussion will center around the stories, strategies, triumphs and challenges of innovative non profits with a passion for change and the cajoles to rock it out online. Yet many have overcome the odds and made a splash online and offline by using the latest Web technologies -- for pennies on the dollar.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

These are the themes I heard while attending the interesting Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook" event this past Monday in DC, organized by the team of Lucas Cioffi , Stephen Buckley , and Kaliya Hamlin. There's a ton of interest in these strategies - so it cannot come too soon! News: InformationWeek ?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

According to a study by The Russell Sage Foundation and The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, the GFC reduced total giving by 7 percent in 2008 and by another 6.2 percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009. This decline is not anecdotal. percent in 2009. and México.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 5, 2008

San Luis Obispo County’s website | 06/05/2008 | Nonprofit Strategies: Why nonprofit groups need to be online: "Nonprofit groups are exhorted regularly to increase their online presence.Staff and volunteers are already stretched with current activities and might be resistant to adding technology to the workload.After all, even technology that enhances (..)

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Double the Donation

AUGUST 21, 2021

Your organization’s strategy is evolving faster than your software. Your organization’s strategy has expanded to include more social media, apps, SMS, matching gift tools , and other technologies, but your software does not support or integrate with those technologies. It seems to take too long to set up and/or edit a new campaign.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. 1 But let’s compare their numbers for 2008, the year for which the Chronicle recently reported. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion. Why the difference?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

in general, which includes Twitter, Facebook, and others – with the goal of crafting a strategy. strategy that includes a whole host of tools, including Twitter, is a darned good idea. But, the biggest reason that I’m twittering is that as the Coordinator of NOSI , I’m experimenting with Web 2.0 1 trackback } Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Jeremiah Owyang, who’s blog I read occasionally, has a good point: figure out what your strategy is, first ! The second part of Facebook’s advertising platform is likely not going to be used by nonprofits, for the most part, but is important to consider if Facebook is a part of your constitiuent-building or fundraising strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. What was your outreach strategy? . What are some insights that you've harvested about your social media strategy? Photo by Dwinton. What is the referral traffic?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The choice to plan and implement professional development strategies can prevent turnover, especially when it comes to quality employees who expect to be invested in. That does not excuse the organization from investing in employee strategies, as this is how a professionally trained staff is built. Hoboken: Wiley. Ridder, H., &

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 12, 2008

Network for Good recently published The 2008 Online Fundraising Survival Guide: 12 Winning Strategies to Survive & Thrive in a Down Economy. This 45-page guide includes sections on avoiding “the four most common fundraising mistakes,&# answering the four questions required to get a donation ( Why Me?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Soledad O’Brien led a thought-provoking discussion with Beth Kanter and Allison Fine , co-authors of The Smart Nonprofit , and David Brown , senior vice president of strategy at Knotch, a content intelligence company. Marie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and enjoys hiking and traveling with her husband and two teenagers.

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