AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

In Canada, Online Giving Reigns - Press - AFP: "In Canada, Online Giving Reigns(Sept. 14, 2010) Online giving has surpassed traditional modes of transacting gifts among all Canadian donors under the age of 65, reports fundraising consultant Penelope Burk from her recent survey of more than 7,000 Canadian donors.

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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. Overall, 79 percent of organizations included in the report raised more in 2010 than 2009, while 21 percent saw declines in their online fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2011

According to the press release, the first NDU last March reached tens of millions of people internationally. AOL’s 2010 study on email usage found that 47 percent of respondents are hooked on email, 59 percent check email in the bathroom and 60 percent check email on vacation. Kids are afflicted too.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

We have been especially successful in receiving blanket agreements from major trade book publishers such as HarperCollins, Random House, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, Perseus, Scholastic, Encyclopaedia Britannica, as well as many university presses (including Cambridge U Press). . • Most publishers don’t say yes or no.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

September 22, 2008 I changed my Word Press theme, mostly because I was getting a bit tired of the old one, and wanted something really simple. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Welcome to the new theme!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

What’s kind of funny is that I was quoted on the press release , which was out 3 weeks ago or so, but it’s taken me this long to blog it. Bad Blogger! (I I think my clients thank me for being a bad blogger.) So what’s the news? MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

Crowdrise came on the scene with a big splash in 2010. Jumo is another social media for social good platform that entered the mix in 2010. Social media for social good is grassroots organizing, fundraising and impact in the digital world. Here’s 9 “social media for social good&# websites you should check out today.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Social capital is defined as the “shared values, ideas, norms, and culture [that] shape the kind of political and administrative efficacy that enhances collective action, democracy, and effectiveness in public service delivery” (Kalu, 2010). Harvard University Press. Princeton university press. Affordable Hous. & Cmty.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 23, 2021

Founded in 2010, Cloud for Good is a certified B Corporation and a Premium Salesforce.org Partner. Cloud for Good is a leading cloud consulting firm helping nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions create transformational value with technology.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

If your communications team is still solely focused on distributing press releases and pitching newspaper reporters, you are missing out on major opportunities to generate earned media and reach your target audiences via multiple channels. By 2010, the NYT circulation went down to 950,000 papers in circulation. Here’s why.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

If you read that link, which is basically a copy of a press release from Microsoft, you’d think they had it all sewn up. What this means is that MS will have to take all of the varied input from the ISO bodies, and go through a second vote early next year. Microsoft thinks that it will win approval , but that is far from clear. (If

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Care2

OCTOBER 8, 2010

These amazing leaders were joined by the traditional WOC crew comprised of brilliant consultants, technologists and online organizers from organizations like, Free Press , Alliance for Climate Education , SeaChange Strategies , Communicopia , and EchoDitto. For a full list of all WOC participants, please go here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

1 trackback } Linux Journal Lost South Of Calais « The Wayward Word Press 10.09.07 1 trackback } Linux Journal Lost South Of Calais « The Wayward Word Press 10.09.07 . … One wonders how many bad stereotypes they can fit in one column? Anyway, if you read Linux Journal, please tell them how you feel.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

More information is in the press release below – you can contact Marie with additional questions. The forum asks visitors to identify what they think is the most pressing issue facing Oregon and to share their best ideas to address it. Ideas can be submitted and commented on until July 13, 2010.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. In September 2010 Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, This meant that press from the road trip also contributed to the buzz around the larger event. In the fall of 2010 the community rallied around a pledge to find common ground and unity in the Charter for Common Ground.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In May, 2010. I moved from my old typepad blog to a word press blog that was designed to match the cover colors of my book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Alison Fine. The Old Beth's Blog. My blog was way over do for a fresh and new look!

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Care2

JANUARY 20, 2010

To the Point: Get Ready to Rummage Time to toss what’s not working and make a new plan for 2010. Care2's Jocelyn Harmon's wrote up a great list of six suggestions for Fundraising Success Magazine's blog on how nonprofits need to step up their marketing game in 2010. Stop being passive about press coverage.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Then Mathew signed a book deal with Interweave Press! Here’s an in-progress photo from the elbow detail knit in September 2010. I sent the finished knit pieces back to him and he assembled them into the final garment. Along with a number of other knitters, I signed on to knit for the book.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Frogloop friends: We at Care2 rarely issue press releases, as we’re more interested in being an organization that does things, as opposed to talking about doing things. But this week we bent our own rules and …issued the press release below. Increased website visitors 175% year to year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I’d be really hard pressed to suggest that they spend much of their meager resources on that. And people in orgs hear all this buzz about this thing or that thing, and feel hard pressed and stressed to get on the bandwagon. Should they spend a bit of time tying their RSS feed (if they have one) to a twitter account?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Georgia Center for Nonprofits press release about our collaboration for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Atlanta. Speaking of 10NTC partners and announcements: ifPeople is putting out a call to Georgia nonprofits to take part in the 2010 NTC Day of Service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Sometimes there’s no getting around a staff increase: since 2010, the U.S. Luke’s, StoryCorps, NPR, and Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. Don’t only look at social media analytics. Read your social media stories. Then share them with your organization’s leadership. Government.

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NTEN

MAY 26, 2011

Check out the 2010 Annual Report in video ! Have more news to share? Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! VolunteerMatch has a great example of sharing an annual report in a pretty cool way: through video! Are you using Google Analytics for your organization's website, blog, or other online space?

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Care2

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Is your nonprofit planning to upgrade your website in 2010 such as migrating it to a content management system or a new one - but don't want to change a thing about it otherwise? For instance, say you have a section for press releases and each release has a specific format.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Here are some tips that I''m re-sharing from another Frogloop blog post from 2010 that are still the gold standard. Save your press releases for the media, and your “talking points” for policy makers. Eight Online Fundraising Strategies You Can Do Right Now. Create Killer Landing Pages.

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2012

In 2010, 62.8 Use the discount code “PRESS” for a free registration! Greg Baldwin was recently featured in the Huffington Post for his article on The Economics of Generosity. Using data from Independent Sector , Greg calculates the value of an hour of volunteer work at roughly $21.79.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

About $500,000 came from unnamed individuals in the early days and in September 2010, Omidyar Network announced a grant of up to $750,000. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 The Jumo website had its soft launch back on March 18, 2010.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Pressing Needs That Require Immediate Attention. You may well have pressing needs to budget for like upgrading from Windows XP and Office 2003 before April 2014 and getting newer IT equipment, for instance from TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative , that already has Windows 7 and Office 2010 installed.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2010

Then, select a few to further research and to add to your reading list for 2010. Readers' favorites included those written by or about sports coaches, athletes, CEOs, scholars, religious leaders, governmental and military leaders. Take a look to see how many of these leadership books you've read. Perhaps you'll find one of your favorites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

In February 2010 I organised an event called Follow a Museum , this was prompted by the low number of followers which I felt most museums had on Twitter and simply aimed to boost those numbers. On December 8, 2010 , conductors from around the world will come together to engage with fans, first-timers and complete strangers.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2014

Here's how to avoid being a Pavlovian dog and checking email every time there’s a reminder: Go to Outlook Options (images are from Office 2010), select Mail and uncheck. Tip 2: Set times when you will check your email.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

PRESS RELEASEChase Community Giving Advisory Board Names 17 Additional Charities to Receive Grants - MarketWatch: "NEW YORK, Oct 07, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Chase Community Giving Advisory Board today announced a final list of 17 additional small and local charities to share a portion of more than $500,000 in grants, receiving $30,000 each.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

This person told me that the behind-the-scenes phone calls and pressures, public meetings and traditional press were still how they did their work — and quite successfully. And this pressure from the bloggers acts as a feedback loop to the press, a loop that we never had before. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Analyzing Public Comments in the Detroit Free Press Online The pre-vote public commentary in the Detroit Free Press about the millage is like any online newspaper commentary: polarizing, extreme, and highly varied in tone and reasonableness. As one Detroit Free Press commenter wrote: "You are not getting it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

The press release from Chase describes the two-step process: In Round One of the Chase Community Giving program, Facebook users will vote for non-profit organizations they think should receive a portion of Chase's philanthropy funds. 12/16: Chase announces the top 100 winners on its Facebook Fan Page and in this press release.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 11, 2009

November was a good month for press. Plan Your 2010: Craft Inc. The WE Volunteer blog I write for, Do Good, Feel Good , was mentioned in WSJ.com's Blog Watch (thanks Beckey Bright!), and Kimberly Wilson interviewed me for the Tranquility du Jour Podcast (thanks, Kimberly!). and Craft Inc.

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