NTEN

MARCH 11, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. Speaker: Debra Askanase, Community Organizing 2.0. Session: Bringing Community Organizing Into Online Campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Organization Size: Medium. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? Name: Allison Nassour. Title: Social Media Manager.

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NetWits

JULY 12, 2011

Idealware who surveyed over 500 nonprofit staff members about their Facebook usage and goals may have answers to some of the questions organizations have been seeking. In 2010, 78% of nonprofits surveyed by NTEN who had raised money on Facebook raised $1K or less in 12 months. Check out the key Facebook data below. Nonprofits Spend 2.6

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Road trips touch on so many different goals that organizations focus on that it’s hard to believe how few major nonprofits have embraced the road trip campaign strategy.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. The fundraising response rate fell by 19%, while the advocacy response rate fell by 7%. Meanwhile, unsubscribe rates held steady from 2009 to 2010. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Highlights.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2016

In my last post, I answered the age-old questions, “ Can my 501(c)(3) really engage in advocacy? ” With that settled, it’s time to move on to the benefits of advocacy. How can advocacy make a measurable difference for your organization? All this being said, advocacy can be difficult to quantify. New advocates.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 31, 2010

Last week in my post, Keeping Your Balance While Helping Haiti , I suggested that you research organizations working in Haiti that you would like to support by donating, volunteering, or helping in some other way throughout 2010. Have you chosen a way to support an organization working in Haiti throughout 2010?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Responsibilities fell to the board of directors and executive directors to do something to save their organizations. If one’s work as an executive director of a nonprofit organization is a vocation, a “calling,” the answers to the following questions are likely to be YES!: Is this a job or a vocation? New ideas take additional time.

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2010

I think we'd all do ourselves and our audiences a favor if we read this article from Jake Brewer and The Sunlight Foundation : " Rethinking Advocacy Email." s 2010 Top Small Workplaces. . Thanks to Joyce Raby for organizing the local nptech group for her community. Please welcome the Northern Colorado 501 Tech Club !

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

More than 1,000 organizations later and they still focus on simplified solutions with an attractive pricing structure. Founded: 2010 Designed with fundraising staff in mind, iDonate’s overall mission is to move overall giving from 2% of disposable income to 4% by 2025. For a Fundraising Swiss Army Knife.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Social Media is definitely going mobile, and I have listed below three mobile strategies that your nonprofit can start experimenting with and considering for 2010: 1) Text-messaging for advocacy and fundraising: Services like Mobile Commmons and mGive offer mass text-messaging and Text-to-Give services for nonprofits.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Kerri Karvetski points to this article about the important differences between Facebook and Twitter, and reminds nonprofit communicators to understand what this means for their advocacy efforts. I know many of you have tackled this for your organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2011

So, when the ICT-KM Program was tasked with organising the social reporting for the Share Fair on Agricultural and Rural Development Knowledge in Africa in Addis Ababa in October 2010, it was clear that it was high time that we document the social reporting team’s experiences and lessons learned in a generic guide. Event management?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

I tell you this not to wax nostalgic, but to remind you that while there are only 1 billion PCs in the world, we'll pass 5 billion mobile phones by the end of 2010. Mobile is the future, but it's also here, right now.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Much of 2010 was focused on Project Cultivar, which worked in the Dominican Republic sugarcane plantations and its company towns, bateyes. Every nonprofit aims to have impact, but few have the systems in place to calculate little more than outputs.

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2010

Want a way to make sure your nonprofit organization is represented -- artistically, that is? Beth reflects on the lessons learned from this year's online success in a thorough blog post , including slides and tips you can use for your own organization or advocacy efforts. Finally, answers! And a green solution! Thank you, Gavin.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

nonprofits, coupled with the 10 major activity areas of charitable organizations to diagram the relative flow of money from each source to each activity area. Nonprofit Economy NPQ’s Illustrated Nonprofit Economy explores the financing of the nonprofit sector. All Rights Reserved

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Understanding Facebook Places Functionality Opens Possibilities | Community Organizer 2.0 – Debra has a great post walking through the steps to setting up, using, and understanding Facebook's new geo-social tool, Places. Thanks, Debra, for a thorough guide! " How Useful is Social Media to Nonprofits?

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Givinga

MARCH 19, 2019

As recently as 2010, a Fast Company journalist posited that it’s impossible to prove whether CSR helps or not 1. This is doubly true now, when digital platforms like Facebook are nixing organic reach 2 : a previously important marketing tool that was effective for SMBs with small budgets. The answer isn’t immediately clear.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

February 12, 2010, and promises to be “more than just a conference on the next generation web.&# Plus, if you register soon you can get a 20% discount! Are you a an online advocacy guru, a fundraiser, or grassroots organizer? This includes people who work in: Online Advocacy and Outreach. Grassroots Organizing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

September 14-21: Mozilla Service Week September 16 & 17, 2009: Online Nonprofit Technology Conference: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission September 25 (deadline) Applications are being accepted for the TED 2010 Fellowship program September 30 (deadline) Enter the GreatNonprofits' Youth Thrive Awards 2009

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Care2

DECEMBER 29, 2014

They are being bombarded with fundraising appeals from multiple organizations. This can leave organizations with higher than usual unsubscribe rates. Several organizations that I work with have very large goals like ending world hunger or ending global warming. In 2010 nonprofits heavily invested in Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2012

I was going to write something patriotic about social media, but I got an email from Mari Tikkanen with story about her recent experience working with maternal/reproductive health organizations and human rights NGOs in Nigeria for the MacArthur Foundation. She approached me after the training, with a leaflet in hand.

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Care2

MARCH 14, 2011

This annual report analyzes the online fundraising performance of approximately 600 nonprofits that used the Convio platform in 2010. The study also provides data for organizations based on size of email file. In 2010, Convio clients raised $1.3 Online giving is growing fastest for small organizations. Key Findings: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2012

This prize will be given annually to an organization that leverages networks. Annie Leonard, the Story of Stuff, was the recipient. Vinay Bhagat of Convio was given the 2012 Care2 Impact Prize for his outstanding impact in online advocacy and fundraising. Several individuals in the nonprofit technology community were recognized.

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Care2

JUNE 7, 2010

The 2010 PDF (Personal Democracy Forum) was the place to be for nonprofit and political campaigners last week in NYC. With movers and shakers ranging from Clay Shirky to Arianna Huffington, campaigners heard first-hand what strategies they should be focusing on in their online advocacy, fundraising and social media engagement.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 14, 2011

Well, maybe “exhilarating” isn’t the right word, but if you’re a research nerd like me, or if you’re wondering how well other orgs performed in 2010 (i.e. website traffic and registration, email communications, online fundraising and advocacy) look no further. Advocacy continues to play an important role.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 21, 2010

Social Media’s Changing Landscape to Make A Profit – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – I'm really looking forward to this conversation – what do you think? "Admit "In the last week, I attended both the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference and the AFP 2010 Conference.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

HOW TO: Turn Slacktivists into Activists with Social Media – "Throughout the non-profit world, organizations struggle with social media’s impact on the volunteer and donor cycle. There are some important social media strategies for transforming those one-click “slacktivists&# into fully engaged activists.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Who wants to do fund rising programs.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

A few offered solid concrete suggestions that take the big idea of "advocacy" and make it concrete, like list wages on hiring requests and refusing to use unpaid interns. Dan Hicks suggested: Build #PositiveAction training—as defined in the 2010 Equality Act—to make a 'pipeline' to begin to address under-representation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Submissions close January 22, 2010." 7 Things I learned From #Beth53 Fundraiser and PoST Class – Beth's Blog: How Nonprofit Organizations Can Use Social Media to Power Social Networks for Change – Beth shares some great lessons from the fundraising campaign she recently ran for her birthday. "This

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2014

Prior to becoming a consultant, she was the Technology Manager at the Applied Research Center (now called Race Forward), a national racial justice think tank and media advocacy organization, where she first laid hands on Salesforce.com in 2010 when leading the organization’s implementation of it.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 13, 2010

In the new decade we are in the “perfect collaboration storm:&# energy around our “community visions&# , enormous critical community needs, myriad of new nonprofit organizations, and desire for greater impact. Tell us about YOUR experience – how are these organizations having an impact?

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Care2

DECEMBER 28, 2010

What’s on tap for social media and advocacy? I hope that 2011 will be about getting back to basics and mastering online fundraising, that is the art and science of fundraising via an organization’s own website. Organizations must test appeals to determine which messaging works best. Online Advocacy is broken.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

The organization I helped found as Colorectal Cancer Coalition in 2005 officially became Fight Colorectal Cancer on Monday, March 6, 2011. However, a small organization with a small budget can make some pretty big changes. She really understood the organizations. Absolutely positively not! Why did we do this? She got it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Engage in advocacy campaigns. How do traditional non-profit organizations link up to movements that are sparked by a moment in time and the conditions preceding it? It’s getting a little easier (I think). * “Building Organizations in a Movement Moment,” Beth Zemsky and Dave Mann. Deepen agreement on a shared political frame.

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