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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Launched the advocacy Twitter handle in January 2010 (@Advocate4PanCAN) and it is growing steadily. We just launched mobile texting and text-to-donate this month (November). Our official launch of text communication will be done at a Los Angeles Kings hockey game on November 27 th. It has close to 400 followers.

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SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

Tech Soup

Kiva is a classic nonprofit social enterprise that relies mainly on earned revenues rather than grants or donations. eGood is a new Los Angeles based company that has developed a community website and app that helps shoppers locate charitable businesses and restaurants that donate a portion of sales to charities.

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Research Friday: Branding in the nonprofit sector

ASU Lodestar Center

Their name and logo are so well-known that the average American trusts their brand and, (arguably) because of this, is likely to donate to their cause. Now charities also have to work on the cause of the problems: they have to become the movements for change.” Sources: [1] Non-profit branding: Cause and brand effect. 4] Keller, E.

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Social Media Lessons from 4 Generations of Canadian Donors

Connection Cafe

Michael Johnston is the president and founder of the global fundraising consultancy, Hewitt and Johnston Consultants (hjc), which has offices in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, and Cordoba. LinkedIn use rose 24% from our 2010 study to 48% in 2013. Twitter use increased by 20% from our 2010 study to 59%.

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Fundraising Trends: Mobile Giving and Crowdfunding, and the Next Generation of Canadian Giving

Connection Cafe

Michael Johnston is the president and founder of the global fundraising consultancy, Hewitt and Johnston Consultants (hjc), which has offices in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, and Cordoba. Since 2010, there has been a 12% increase in donors who have a landline but choose to use their mobile phones.

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Why Privacy Matters (or Should) to Nonprofits

NTEN

Data Theft Creates Notification Nightmare for BlueCross" (March 1, 2010, CIO.com). Wanted: Defense Against Online Bank Fraud" (February 8, 2010, Wall Street Journal). Banking laws leave business customers vulnerable to Internet fraud" (March 21, 2010, Los Angeles Times). Have you mitigated your privacy risks?

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Five Things Nonprofits Need To Know About Office 365: The Free Roadshow Events [EDIT]

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global and Tech Impact are teaming up to do a series of free one-day events for charities and libraries in September called Office 365 Roadshows. Monday, September 15 th in Los Angeles. Lots of charities like to use it with their existing versions of Microsoft Office 2010 or higher. TechSoup article).