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Independence Day, 2011

VisionLink

Independence Day, 2011 Stan Stahl, Ph.D. Today, 235 years later, the world measures the morality of a nation by the extent to which its people are free to live their own story, the extent to which its government secures to its people life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. © Copyright 2011. Douglas Zimmerman VisionLink, Inc.

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What happened in 2020 disaster philanthropy beyond COVID-19?  

Candid

This year’s Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report, published by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) and Candid, tracked roughly $121 billion in aid to date in 2020 across multiple sources—including bilateral and multilateral aid, U.S. Since 2011, more than 13 million Syrians have been displaced.

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Social Media and Cute Dogs Go Mobile And Other Cute Animal and Nonprofit Tales

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs. Michelle, was a participant in the Measuring Networked Nonprofit peer learning groups supported through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation.

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2011 NTC Preview: A Scientist in Your Communications Department: Segmenting Messages, Customizing Content and Delivering Results

NTEN

Your communications strategy should acknowledge that each of these groups has a different reason for pledging their support. Start collecting this information in a standardized way, so that you can begin measuring and evaluating your constituents' actions. Are they bringing friends? Are their friends donating? Komen 3-Day for the Cure.

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Getting Beyond the Slacktivism Debate

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the June 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Campaigners are right to learn from testing, measuring and message appeals from direct marketing, and the use of petitions, pledges and letters from centuries of campaigning practice. If you ask for your open and click rates you will get them.

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Innogive Conference Panel Resources: Mobile is the Needle, Social is the Thread

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The DOT is a pledge to Do One Thing to help the environment – and cool the climate. When Goodwill was planning their mobile site, they knew from their web analytics that their most popular feature would be the store locator; more than 7 million visited the Goodwill website in 2011, and more than 6 million of those visited the locator.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

This morning, I had the huge honor of presenting the keynote at the 2011 MyCharityConnects Conference in Toronto, ON. So they provide the examples and maps, but they let the youth pick and pledge whatever it is they want to do to make a difference. What do you measure every day, week, month, year? What about a fundraising tool?

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