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DECEMBER 10, 2013

The best ever resource and template for an editorial calendar comes from my colleague, Holly Minch at LightBox Collaborative who has been sharing her template in a google document since 2011. A must for any organization of any size.” – Erin Fogg, 2011. The 2014 version – new and improved has arrived! Great idea!

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

MacArthur Foundation named 13 organizations as recipients of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. The Award, which recognizes exceptional grantees and helps ensure their long-term sustainability, provides each organization with up to $1.5 and Catherine T. million, depending on the size of its budget.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

MFGII summary findings Nov 2011. The research found that two-thirds of individuals do not typically research the organizations they donate to compared those that advise donors and foundation grant-makers do due dilligence on every dollar they contribute. MFGII summary findings Nov 2011 View more presentations from GuideStar USA, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

On Monday, I attended Compasspoint’s Nonprofit Day 2011. The theme was “Inspired Resilience: How we sustain People, Organizations, and Causes.” How does your organization deal with mistakes and failure? On Monday, I attended Compasspoint’s Nonprofit Day 2011. Blame game or learning?

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AUGUST 16, 2011

The process has opened – so you can browse and vote for the nonprofit panels you think are worthy of being on the program until September 2, 2011. And, if you’re thinking your organization can’t afford to send you to the conference, there are scholarships available for nonprofits folks.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Note from Beth: A couple years ago, I organized a “ Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam &# at SXSW. How often does your organization step back and remember your mission? You must submit an application by midnight on March 28, 2011, and you’ll be notified if you’ve won on April 10. Guest post by Juan A.

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011). This year during Ramadan, Tunisia Telecom launched an initiative to support 14 charity organizations. Tunisie Telecom learned about Esmaani thanks to their effective Facebook page and selected the organization based on the importance of their charity work in Tunisian society.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

This is a question being asked in many nonprofits as they look at how to prepare younger leaders in their organizations to lead and develop their talent. Are leadership skills different for emerging “Millennial” leaders than for people from different generations? Or is there a set of skills fundamental to every level?

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MAY 2, 2011

Benchmarking is the process of comparing your organization’s practices and results with a group of peer organizations. It can be an informal study and fairly simple to do. You identify a list of similar organizations and collect specific metrics to compare. Devon summarized the data in the above presentation.

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JUNE 13, 2012

The conference registration is $99-$125, but I have four passes to give away to the four best answers to this question: Why do you think it is important for nonprofits to engage Millennials both inside and outside of their organizations? This year’s study on Millennial engagement with nonprofits is out and can be downloaded here.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Leave a comment on this post explaining what your organization’s singular, most important activity will be in 2011 that will at-once drive social impact, engage supporters and increase revenues. Note from Beth: Carol Cone was kind enough to offer several copies of her a book as a giveaway. Deadline: December 23rd.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Generosity Day: This got started in 2011 by Sasha Dichter, Scott Case, Ellen McGirt, and Katya Andresen. The Humane Society and many animal welfare organization’s are using the hashtag #myfurryvalentine to encourage their supporters to share their valentine’s to their pets.

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

Larger organizations may have the capacity and resources to make a bigger investment. But many smaller organizations don’t. Looks like 2011 is going to be the year for to explore and learn about how mobile integrates with social media and other communications channels. Are larger gift amounts soon to follow?

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

The 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference will take place on March 17-19, 2011 in Washington, DC. Social Media in 30 minutes a day for the under-resourced organization new to social media. Share What’s on your Mind: A Productive Therapy Session for Social Media Organizers. Here’s a short list from Debra Askanase.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

For the past three years, I’ve been a fundraising champion for NTEN, the premier organization for nonprofit techies. It is the official start of giving season and year-end campaigns. We were called “Circuit Riders.”

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

In addition, the top reason donors cite for ceasing their giving to a charity is how they were treated by the organization. Nonprofits can participate by visiting the Be Your Donor Day site ( [link] ) and spreading the word to other organizations. Here are some ways to participate: Tweet about it: #BeYourDonor Day is 10/24!

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JANUARY 4, 2011

We will answer your questions about how to make your organization’s social media efforts more efficient and effective. We’ll share tips, resources, and tools for saving time on engaging in conversations, listening, content strategy, measurement, tools and more.

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JULY 23, 2012

One core belief has driven the Organizational Effectiveness program for nearly 30 years: Organizations are more effective at meeting their goals when they have thoughtful strategy, strong leadership, and sound management. Assessment of 46 OE grants to networks awarded 2009-2011, conducted by Monitor Institute (2012).

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DECEMBER 16, 2011

On November 16, 2011, more than $13.4 million was raised to benefit Minnesota nonprofit organizations. In a 24-hour period, nearly 4,000 Minnesota nonprofit organizations benefited through donations, matching grants and prizes. Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ raised $13.4M in one day by Jeff Achen, GiveMN.org.

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APRIL 30, 2013

Will Coley , comes to the topic understanding how activists and activist organizations are using the techniques as part of their content and engagement strategies. That the curator selects, describes, filters, organizes, and present resources. So, varying speakers, interaction, and mediums – helps make the content stick.

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MARCH 17, 2011

If you work for a nonprofit, the program provides your organization with several new benefits. All in all, a packed day before the official start of the 2011 NTC. If you work for a nonprofit, the program provides your organization with [.] More about the launch from Rohit Bhargava and Mashable.

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

.” Content curation is sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network. While I have been doing content curation for the past twenty years that I’ve worked as a technology trainer, in July, 2011 I discovered the Scoop.It

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MARCH 23, 2012

As of August 2011, an astounding 8.1 Most recently, I was reminded of this as I live-tweeted an event for MomsRising put on by Latino civil rights organization the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). MomsRising is an online and on-the-ground organization with over a million members, many of whom are Latinas.

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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.

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MAY 5, 2011

The State of Marketing 2011 report recently released from IBM analyzes over 300 online and direct marketers across a wide range of industries, geographies, and company sizes. I expect to be blogging more about this topic. It is a hot topic in the corporate marketing world.

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APRIL 1, 2013

.” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. Click to see larger version.

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MARCH 16, 2011

I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today. If all else fails, the message should be that the organization risks being irrelevant to its stakeholders. Geoff Livingston noted that more and more organizations are adding staff as mobile specialists outside of social according to a Forrester study.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

The cute animal theory has not gone unnoticed by nonprofits, even those that are not animal welfare organizations, zoos or aquariums are sharing content featuring cute animals on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Specific measurable objectives included: Increase page likes to 12,000 by 12/31/2011 (achieved on 12/1/11).

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JUNE 22, 2011

Download the complete 2011 Millennial Donor Study findings and recommendations by visiting millennialdonors.com. But this takes a different kind of management approach , rather than organize them, nonprofits need to facilitate Millennials to organize themselves. (Cat Cat herding skills?).

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APRIL 15, 2014

What does learning the new mean for organizations? She also talked about a new role called “Social Learning Practitioner,” someone who encourages and enables and supports knowledge sharing and learning across the organization. Organization. Teaching the new is not structured because it is social learning.

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MARCH 25, 2012

In the fall 2011 issue of our quarterly journal, we published short pieces by the Marguerite Casey Foundation and the Foundation for the Mid South about why they think it’s smart to combine funding for services and advocacy. NCRP has contributed to this discussion, too.

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JUNE 13, 2011

2011 Putting Principles in Action: Valid Metrics Matrix. These are simply a guidelines to help think through what to measure – or what metrics that will help your organization demonstrate progress towards an objective. . We’ve come a long way since the early days of social media in terms of measurement practice.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Last year, my organization took its first steps. we discussed how the organization might utilize social media in similar ways. As 2011 came to a close, our board members wanted to know what we were “doing” about social media. After just one year, social media is playing a front-and-center role within the organization.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

2. To capture summaries of the 2010 conference to show the richness of the content as a means to promote the event for 2011. In the for-profit sector, we’re seeing more and more senior managers turn to social networks to keep up with their employees as this study indicates. Criteria for Success.

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

You can do a whole network analysis which looks at organizations and people in specific geographic or social change area. You do this to consider who to connect and engage in your professional network for learning or help your organization address social change goals. There are two different lens to think about network mapping.

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JULY 5, 2012

Five Steps You Can Take Now to Apply the New Measurement Standards In Your Organization. However strategists like you know there are deeper insights and more meaningful ways to determine if your social media efforts are making a difference and truly helping your organization’s mission. But where to start?

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