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Blog Action Day 2009: Creating Actions for Everyone on Climate Change

Amy Sample Ward

Earlier this week, I posted a summary from this month’s #4Change chat that focused on social media in the Climate Change movement. Blog Action Day 2009 will be one of the largest-ever social change events on the web. Today is Blog Action Day and this year’s theme is Climate Change. What’s Blog Action Day?

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Creating Healthy Nonprofits in Silicon Valley

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Why aren’t more local philanthropists directing their dollars toward these organizations? But paradoxically, many local community-based nonprofits aren’t healthy: they’re unable to meet rising demand, pay escalating rents, or compete for top talent, and they are struggling financially. But many local residents are struggling.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Summary of ROI. When I started at organization in July 2009, the Facebook fan page had about 6,000 fans and now it has over 35,400 fans. . When I started at organization in July 2009, the Facebook fan page had about 6,000 fans and now it has over 35,400 fans. Averaging 3,100 Facebook page views per week. Anything else?

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Guest Post: Celebrating Beth’s Five Years As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An online conversation led to a phone call, and in March 2009, Beth arrived here for what was originally envisioned as a nine-month Visiting Scholarship. Yesterday, we hosted “ The Beth Effect ”, a Google Hangout filmed live from our headquarters in front of an intimate studio audience of Beth’s local friends and colleagues.

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What are the nonprofit management implications of Pay for Success programs?

ASU Lodestar Center

In June 2016 a bipartisan bill passed the House of Representatives to allocate $300 million for state and local SIBs over ten years (Wallace, 2015). Impact Evaluation of the Adolescent Behavioral Learning Experience (ABLE) Program at Rikers Island: Summary of Findings. Nonprofit for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting.

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GiveMN 2012 Giving Day by the Numbers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As I wrote back in September when first covering Giving Tuesday, Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised many millions of dollars in 24 hours using the Razoo platform its first year. Each year since the event started in 2009, we’ve seen these numbers grow.

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Deconstructing An Angry Crowd: What Can We Learn?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's a summary and chronology of blog posts and Facebook and Twitter chatter. I blogged about it on November 16 as part of a trend of focusing online competitions on regional and local givings. To reinforce the local focus of this program, 501( c)(3) non profits with an operating budget of $10 million or less will be eligible.

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