ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. It may be time to rethink how these important social organizations are funded. What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? Defourny et al.,

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Achieve

OCTOBER 25, 2016

and were more interested in social issues concerning education, health care and the economy. The second wave of data surveyed millennials from June through August 2016. More than a quarter of millennials surveyed did not want to vote for either major party candidate in November. Download the. About the Millennial Impact Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In total, GiveMN has helped raise $46 million for nonprofit organizations across the state of Minnesota since launching in November 2009. Social media strategy payoff. Those relationships were strengthened through the use of social media. Multiple answers were acceptable). 79 percent of respondents were female.

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Care2

MARCH 22, 2011

Check out the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from M+R Strategic Services and NTEN which surveyed 40 nonprofit organizations and analyzed all of this data and more. Online fundraising grew 14% from 2009 to 2010. From 2009 to 2010, advocacy response rates declined 7% on average. Online Fundraising. Online Advocacy and Email.

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Care2

APRIL 9, 2009

It's common knowledge that online giving and participation is growing and an online strategy has to be a critical part of your fundraising mix. But just how much money should you be investing in your online strategy? Results from the survey will be released at the Nonprofit Technology Conference on April 28, 2009.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

We hope that nonprofits will find this trend(y) report handy in planning their technology strategies for the New Year! To start with, we conducted a survey (tweet tweet!) There is a constant need to reach out to more supporters who exist on different (evolving) social platforms, and cultivate a personal relationship with them.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand."

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Many volunteer managers cite recruitment as their greatest challenge; however, Brudney and Meijs (2009) contend that “the preoccupation with recruitment distracts attention and resources from the management and retention of volunteers” (p. We welcome your comments and feedback. Sources: Brudney, J. and Meijs, L. 38(4), 564-581.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

What are your nonprofit resolutions for 2009? Convio just released a helpful guide for nonprofits appropriately titled, " Nonprofit Resolutions That Make the Difference in 2009 ". Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand." What are your top nonprofit resolutions for 2009?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? ” I was lucky enough to meet and interview Patton in 2009.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

" The Forrester Blog For Interactive Marketing Professionals - Forrester "found that technologies trigger changes in consumer adoption, and brands will follow, resulting in five distinct waves…" You can check out the 5 eras of the social web along with recommendations for "brands" preparing for the future.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Conducted in January and February 2013, Nonprofit Finance Fund’s 2013 State of the Sector survey assessed the financial and management challenges facing 5,983 organizations across the country. Short-term, Band-Aid strategies are no longer tenable for our communities or the organizations that serve them. deliver better social outcomes.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Taproot connects nonprofits and other social change organizations with skilled volunteers sharing their expertise pro bono. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

AARP California Twitter Account Last week at the WeAreMedia Workshop, someone asked a question about babyboomers and social media use. Is it only younger people who are using social media. Some recent studies on social media and social networking use and baby boomers show that more and more are adopting social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

I couldn’t help but wonder what might happen if there was a coordinated series of giving days in local communities that all took place under the back drop of Giving Tuesday’s ability to harness national attention or even world wide attention. The combination of bottom up and top down strategies could be powerful.

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AFP Blog

MAY 15, 2009

Nonprofits tap online networks to raise funds | Philly | 05/15/2009: "Nonprofits across the country - more than 85 percent use social media, according to a new survey - want to replicate that success.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

By cutting staff and services, according to our most recent State of Grantseeking Survey. They reference an article from the fall 2009 Stanford Social Innovation Review , The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle. Attempting to Combat the Overhead Myth. Mark your calendar now for September 20 to 21. Image 1 : Andrey_Popov / Shutterstock.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

What lies beneath a request for technology capacity or skill building or the rush to adopt the newest social or mobile tool? Are there other more pressing organizational issues that should be addressed first such as poor program quality or lack of a overall communications strategy or leadership issues.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" DZ: Was there any organizational resistance to Twitter (or other social media)?

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

Flickr Photo by cathytx2001 Many nonprofits understand the importance of an online strategy but are unclear on how much to invest in online marketing and fundraising -- and what to expect in return. Blackbaud is conducting a survey as part of their State of the Nonprofit Industry (SONI) series. Take the survey here ! .

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" But, does your nonprofit have a solid strategy to engage these new recruits and potential donors?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Video, social media, and peer-to-peer fundraising and engagement are helping nonprofits leverage the trends and data to be more successful in their communications and fundraising programs. 63% of online consumers planned to use the Internet to donate to charity in the last quarter of 2009, up from 51% in 2008.1.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

" They probably said the same thing about Facebook, Twitter, and other social media tools. Blackbaud studied 1,274 nonprofits to compare their online fundraising results for the first six months of 2008 to the same period of 2009. 38 nonprofits in the analysis had at least one online gift of $20,000 of more so far in 2009.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

For this week’s post, we welcome Angela Francis from Nonprofit Finance Fund to discuss NFF’s recently released State of the Sector survey findings. Nonprofit Finance Fund recently completed its third annual "State of the Nonprofit Sector" survey with the help of nearly 2,000 nonprofit leaders nationwide. So why do we do it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

I've been preparing for a Leadership Conference with TCG (Theatre Communications Group, the service organizations for theatre companies) on strategic social media. So, I've been looking at a lot of different examples of how theatres are using social media.  Foursquare is a location-based social network. 

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Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

As a Certified B Corporation , we strive to hold ourselves to the highest standard of social and environmental performance for business, motivate other companies to do the same, and celebrate those who are working to create positive social change. Enable a culture of environmentally conscious stakeholders .

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Care2

MARCH 6, 2009

Nonprofit Social Network Survey. Calling all nonprofits that use social networks. NTEN, Common Knowledge and ThePort have teamed up to take a snapshot of how our non-profit community uses social networks. Click here to take the survey and to contribute to nonprofit tech community knowledge.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

We’re here to talk about how to build a better grant strategy in this post-COVID, to the extent that we are post-COVID world. And folks should check your agency out once the session is over, over there at RBW Strategy. What’s our strategy?” And we’re going to talk through some strategy building blocks.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2015

In the Fall 2009 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review , Gregory and Howard identified the “nonprofit starvation cycle” which they defined as follows: The first step in this cycle is the funders’ unrealistic expectations about how much it costs to run a nonprofit.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Saturday, November 27, 2010 5 Reasons To Do An Employee Survey Business leaders who wonder whether they should conduct an employee survey should think about these five good reasons for conducting surveys, as recommended by John Kador and Katherine J. Armstrong in their book, Perfect Phrases for Writing Employee Surveys : 1.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Here are 10 questions Polaris recommends you ask employees as part of a wide-ranging employee satisfaction and engagement survey : For each of the following statements, indicate if you: • Strongly disagree • Disagree • Somewhat disagree • Agree • Strongly agree 1.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Sunday, September 19, 2010 Do you have a brand strategy? A fellow Blogger, Debbie Laskey, shared these keen insights with me: “A brand strategy is the ultimate business strategy and often the least understood." Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2018

I met Debbie Laskey in 2009, when we worked together virtually for MicroMentor, Debbie in California, and me in Kansas. Guest Post: By Debbie Laskey There is no denying that social media has changed how brands communicate. Therefore, in today’s social climate, who owns a brand’s messaging? Here’s Debbie’s brief bio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The report also suggests that a more sophisticated way to offer philanthropy advice would be to use machine learning with social and environmental needs and data on the social impact of CSOs and interventions. Can Machine Learning Predict Social Impact? This webinar on Sept. Is the next frontier mining internal emails?

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2011

5 Biggest Trends in Online Fundraising Friday, March 18, 2011, 1:30 to 3:00 pm Attendees will learn why online fundraising is fast becoming an integral part of any successful nonprofit’s fundraising strategy as well as a critical way to attract new and younger donors.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2011

It all begins with the first workshop in Blackbaud’s new Social Media Learning Series on Thursday, March 17, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM. They will provide insight into how thousands of nonprofits are using social media and highlight the most successful strategies. It’s not even on YOUR website.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2011

A survey recently completed by the job-placement firm Manpower that found 84 percent of employees intend to look around for a new job this year, and that is up from 60 percent last year. . Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Source: Entrepreneur, March 2009 Be A Visible Leader Walk around.

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