Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Yesterday was the fourth Giving Tuesday , a global day of community-driven philanthropy. Global Giving did a creative campaign to encourage people to share why they give. If you tweeted with the hashtag #IGiveBecause – you received a $20 gift card to donate to the charity of your choice on their site.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Lasa, a UK-based technology and welfare charity (and content partner of TechSoup's), published a crowdsourced report on how charities and nonprofits can engage with technology to build a stronger connection with their constituents. Technology can help charities save money and time. " Mobile is the future.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

TechSoup Global’s Dara Westling attended the recent Global Donors Forum in Washington, D.C. to report on Tech for Good trends and also to find out how things are going in one of the most challenging areas of philanthropy: providing much needed help and support to people in the Muslim world. Dara Westling.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2017

#GivingTuesday lives online through social media—as evidenced by the hashtag in its name—and aims to create a sense of global collaboration for an annual day of giving. Over $1,640,000 in gifts were given this year, and over $177,000,000 was raised online for charities and nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

If you’re trendspotting the latest in webwear like me, you’ll notice that the bold and beautiful charity websites are slimming down the text and accentuating the images. Major web design competitions often have charity categories. The best advocacy website is Global Zero developed by Advomatic & Free Range.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

To provide some background, #GivingTuesday is a global giving movement that builds off of Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the overall spirit of generosity during the holiday season. Started in 2012, this movement inspires millions of individuals to donate to their favorite causes annually. To put this in perspective, in 2018, 3.6

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JUNE 3, 2014

Good documentaries are about people. We’ve grown up with platforms to connect with others, new ways to discover and share stories, and a global consciousness that is unprecedented. They can mobilize people, spur discussion, and drum up support for action — because they make people care in a way nothing else can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 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. The Internet Gets Charitable – guest post by Darin McKeever. that touches on the subject.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2012

TechSoup Global's partner in Germany, Stifter-Helfen.de – IT for Nonprofits , has been collecting case studies from the organizations it works with over the last year. Here is a look at how a few German nonprofits and charities are using technology donations for social good. Aiding People in Times of Crisis.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

Fast Forward to 2012. Several models also come with Symantec Norton Antivirus 2012 with system restore capabilities. The program is scheduled to launch in late 2012 or early 2013. InterConnection is one of Microsoft’s primary charity refurbishers. Refurbished Computers in the TechSoup Global Network.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2012

Richard Cooper of Charity Technology Trust (CTT) in the U.K. Richard’s case has been making the rounds in the TechSoup Global network, most recently at TechSoup Canada’s blog. Richard’s case has been making the rounds in the TechSoup Global network, most recently at TechSoup Canada’s blog.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Charity and government support remain crucial but are insufficient to address the magnitude of the task at hand. More than a million tax-exempt organizations exist in the United States, including public charities, private foundations, and civic organizations—not counting the 220,000 religious congregations that are also registered.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

For the first time in the nation’s history, people came together to fundraise on a global scale. In 1969, the Tax Reform Act gave us Section 501(c)3 in the Internal Revenue Service Code, which said that every charity in the U.S. billion in donations for nonprofits in 2012 and has only been growing since.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. Call us what you will, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2015, a bit over 37 percent of the total global workforce will be made up of mobile workers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2017

Recent trends in philanthropic giving indicate that the new generation of donors has a high interest in ensuring that their donations generate outcomes (Flandez, 2012). Additionally, these nonprofits were large organizations with wide-reaching impact, serving tens of thousands, if not millions of people. 2012, June 21).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Free video services like Instagram and Vine that feature short videos now attract millions of users, offering nonprofits, charities, and libraries an opportunity to connect with new audiences. The company was founded in June 2012 and was acquired by Twitter later that year. ways to tell stories in just a few seconds.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Derrick is the author of “Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change” (2016) and co-author of the book “Cause for Change: The Why and How of Nonprofit Millennial Engagement” (2012). John Haydon is one of the most sought-after digital marketing experts for nonprofits and charities. charity: water.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

#GivingTuesday is entering its fifth year as a global social media movement inspired by the purpose of giving. Since its creation in 2012, over 10,000 organizations have participated in #GivingTuesday and over $55 million has been raised. ” If you’re reading this thinking “yes, I get it, but how do I change people’s minds?!”

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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. active nonprofits in US It’s very common to see multiple charities fundraising for the same cause in the same geographic area. Local organizations can opt to join a charity program hosted by the event organizers.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

In this case, it's a recap of some of the big nonprofit technology stories of 2012. Top Nonprofit Technology Buzzwords of 2012. "Hackathon" was, in fact, one of Lucy Bernholz' top 10 philanthropy buzz words for 2012. By the way, Lucy Bernholz' top buzz word of 2012 was " data."

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

As summer starts, we’ll report on what happened to Facebook Causes, some big developments in cloud computing including the launch of Salesforce1, a big partnership between Salesforce and Microsoft that bodes well for charities, and the launch of Box.org, free cloud storage for nonprofits. It was one of the original 10 Facebook apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

So, now we are seeing an emerging practice that for lack of a better phrase, I’m calling “Charity Jacking.” Charity Jacking is imitating a successful fundraising campaign theme or idea that has become popular and instead of encouraging donations to the original charity, redirecting donations to another cause.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

” In other words, if the new PC market grows by by 9% worldwide in 2012 as is forecast by the business research firm IDC , then the used PC market will grow as well. Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

On Facebook, people connect with friends, family, their communities and the issues and causes they care about most. We work to empower the millions of people and organizations that use Facebook to create high-impact solutions to problems big and small, all over the world. Facebook is all about sharing and connecting.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

It is essentially a single day when people across the globe rally to give back. The idea is for charities and the people who support them to sign up on the #GivingTuesday website. Supporters commit to doing something good like donating money or services to a registered charity. The Movement Goes Global This Year.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We need a combination of political action and big personal changes to get the global community moving forward to protect our home. Leading organisations like the UN are telling us unanimously that we need to act now with global systematic change in order to save the planet. Conserve your water.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 9, 2012

A new report, "Digital Citizenship: Exploring the Field of Tech for Engagement", released by the Knight Foundation, explores the potential for technology to improve democracy -- specifically at how it can help people engage with their communities, leaders, and governments. I don't want to spoil any surprises; read it all here.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Now, here's the latest: Global Digital Inclusion. Ah yes, another month and another massive global digital inclusion initiative. Last month it was Facebook’s Internet.org initiative to develop very low-cost Internet on mobile phones for people in developing countries. trillion in 2012 and will nearly double to $8.9

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Charity: Water is a nonprofit site that is admired for their compelling design and messaging. Their “Water Changes Everything” video conveys, in three minutes, why people should care about their mission. Figure 6: The Charity: Water website uses a video to explain “Why water.”.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We need a combination of political action and big personal changes to get the global community moving forward to protect our home. Leading organisations like the UN are telling us unanimously that we need to act now with global systematic change in order to save the planet. Conserve your water.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. It also has a “Charities and NGOs” section. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. It also has a “Charities and NGOs” section. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

We the People :: petitions.whitehouse.gov. We the People is an online petitioning service launched by the Obama Administration that enables U.S. You can also view statistics about what time people voted and from what country. 501(c)(3) organizations can register people and try to convince them to vote. Government.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

One thing we learned is that heavy social media users are more likely to be new donors to the charity after encountering them on social media channels. The infographic also summarizes some best practices for nonprofits for crowd funding platforms: Tell engaging and personal stories to connect people to their fundraiser in an authentic way.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

And I’m a man of the people. So in other words, philanthropy is shifting from the middle-class boomers to people like Mark Zuckerberg. So the more trust both of those people feel in your process and your ability to accept their gift, the better. At least wait an hour because like I said, this is an exciting one.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. It also has a “Charities and NGOs” section. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. It also has a “Charities and NGOs” section. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com.

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