Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2012

The CTK Foundation has just launched the 2012/2013 Heart & Soul Grants , with over $55,000 to assist nonprofits like yours in accomplishing your mission. to recognize and celebrate the work nonprofits do and seek to promote the use of technology in managing the accomplishment of their mission. What is the CTK Foundation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

At the 2012 GEO conference, I learned about a Big Experiment for Learning in Public undertaken by the Packard Foundation, together with TCC Group and Beth Kanter. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

To celebrate all of the good going on around us, they’ve created a huge, global image gallery of people, organizations and businesses doing good this holiday on their Facebook page – because they believe that #GoodSpotting is everywhere, and something everyone can do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Invisible Children’s film tapped into a network of celebrities, whose tweets and status updates helped to amplify a simple story and call to action. Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Since 2012, Educational Testing Service (ETS) has engaged Forum One to design and build more engaging, interactive reports to share the NAEP results, including the most recent 2022 Nation’s Report Cards for Mathematics and Reading , with data at the national, state, and district levels. The post Celebrating Mission-Driven Success in 2023!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

They wanted to visualize their network for a specific purpose: getting a national bill ( Moving Children Outdoors Act) on Obama’s desk for signature by Oct. How do you appreciate, thank, and celebrate important people in your network? They used sticky notes to visualize the network. Staff members were at the core of the map.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

in 2012 to $142.05 Camp Kesem empowers college students across the United States to create a free, life-changing one-week summer camp experience for children affected by a parent’s cancer. Over 1,300 #bigkidsgive photos were shared on social media, including celebrity posts from NBA star Blake Griffin and B.J.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Since 2012, Educational Testing Service (ETS) has engaged Forum One to design and build more engaging, interactive reports to share the NAEP results, including the most recent 2022 Nation’s Report Cards for Mathematics and Reading , with data at the national, state, and district levels. The post Celebrating Client Success in 2023!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2012

recent security lapse will be rolled out at every seminar and conference for the next three years to warn small children, sorry, prospective users of cloud services, of the cloud’s inherent insecurity. One of the biggest is security. "No doubt Dropbox’s. What the NTEN Cloud Survey Report Says.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Ian and Sam asked us to design three seemingly-simple things: a challenge to overcome, rules to master, and a win condition to celebrate. At the end of October, we started handing visitors business cards with all the Fridays through the end of 2012 listed on it. Celebrating the Win Most games have a big finish. It's not easy.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2015

But, with a 60 percent increase in the use of peer-to-peer fundraising between 2012 and 2013 , peer-to-peer is on the rise. Is there a celebrity, even a local one who would champion your cause? It can be a greater fundraising strategy than just creating a campaign. Find a hero.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

As CEO Brad Damphousse explained to TechCrunch in 2012, the company’s growth was “due to the maturation of payment processing — allowing individual users to accept credit card payments — as well as social platforms like Facebook, which tie campaigns to identity and link them to people users know.”. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2012.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2017

According to the 2017 RWR 30 released in March, revenue from the top Run, Walk and Cycling events are down 8% since 2012. What I love most of all is the option to “celebrate a transplant anniversary.” But this doesn’t tell the real story of the P2P evolution happening across the industry. He also didn’t ask permission.

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

Then in 2012, Ross Hendrickson and myself decided to start Bloomerang based upon the premise of bringing proven best practices in professional fundraising to life. Those of you who have watched Simone mesmerize a large audience should see her work with a small crowd of energetic and knowledge seeking children.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Since 2012, #GivingTuesday has become a worldwide day of (mostly) online giving. It allows donors to celebrate with you when your goal is achieved. SOS Children’s Villages shared that 75% of their new donors all year came through their year-end peer-to-peer fundraiser. GivingTuesday Ideas & Best Practices.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

They're aware of human issues, both here and abroad, and that somehow drove them all into the position that food was a place where they would be advocating for change through their passion, their life work, and through wanting to celebrate not only communities, but also by becoming activists for changing the way we eat.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Forum One has partnered with NRDC to develop its website as well as additional digital assets, such as an immersive storytelling experience to celebrate the organization’s 50th anniversary in 2020 and an offshore drilling position tracking tool to help constituents easily find their legislators’ positions on offshore drilling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

GEO’s 2012 National Conference shared a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and presents opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. Tuesday, March 13 was my youngest son’s 4th birthday. Where was I? Fifteen minutes for a four-year-old?!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

Remember the “ Take Back the Pink ” Campaign in 2012 or numerous imitators of the popular yellow Livestrong bracelets like this one ? The organization has also hosted the “ Polar Bear Plunge ” fundraiser that raised $20 million in 2012. Sand for Palestine children. Blue it Up (Lung cancer). Rubble Bucket.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2015

It's an evangelical church with astonishing programs that attracts the crowds, including celebrities like former New York Giants quarterback, Jeff Hostetler, and his family. The 30-Hour Famine event is a project in which school children learn about hunger, raise funds to help hungry kids in the world, and experience hunger for themselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

I’m at the AFP Conference where I will be on a plenary session about “ Social Media for Social Change ” moderated by Social Media 4 Nonprofit leaders Darian Rodriguez and Ritu Sharma, along with Carolyn Miles, Save the Children and Ben Rattray, Change.Org. Some key themes: the need to focus on measurement for impact.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2014

This is the 2013 edition of my annual review of year-end email subject lines that started in 2011 and continued in 2012. WATCH: 5 Reasons We’re Celebrating. In memory of his five-year-old sister… Celebrating the Season Together as One Family. How are you celebrating the holidays? Apollo set the standard.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2015

Be sure to give the 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 reviews a look too. Celebrate With Us, There’s Still Time. Give Hope to Children this Holiday Season. Happy Holidays from Boston Children’s Hospital. We will stand for children. Great holiday gifts for children from Gifts of Hope! Here it is! Branch Out!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Be sure to check out 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 too. Best Innovation in Graphics: This one goes to Lifeline Children’s Services for showing a giving pyramid inside the email noting how many gifts of each level they had received and still needed to get. Countdown for our children. Let’s Celebrate.

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