Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Note from Beth : This is an ongoing series from the Organizational Effectiveness Program team at the Packard Foundation about developing their program funding strategy in an open way or what has been dubbed “Learning In Public.” Assessment of 46 OE grants to networks awarded 2009-2011, conducted by Monitor Institute (2012).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Most often these new experiments have grown out of frustration with the fact that, despite several decades of rapid growth in philanthropy and nonprofits, many of the same social and environmental problems persist, or are getting worse. What models of “collective impact” or multi-stakeholder collaborations have emerged; is there a typology?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2017

Nonprofits must stay on top of social media trends and create engaging experiences for millennials in order to capture their loyalty. In a 2012 report, the National Chamber Foundation cited that Millennials have approximately “$200 billion of direct purchasing power and $500 billion of indirect spending.” Kylander, 2012).

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2017

Nonprofits must stay on top of social media trends and create engaging experiences for millennials in order to capture their loyalty. In a 2012 report, the National Chamber Foundation cited that Millennials have approximately “$200 billion of direct purchasing power and $500 billion of indirect spending.” Kylander, 2012).

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

I’ll keep this simple, as many of us have a lot on our minds as we experience the world grappling with a public health crisis. Second, model out and scenario plan for revenue declines of 5, 10 and 15 percent. To help facilitate this discussion, have your CFO run budgets from 2006-2012 and see how your revenue fluctuated.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Raspberry Pi Model B. Dubbed "Model B+," it's the third model the organization has released to the public since Model A went on sale in 2012. Libraries have also experimented with replacing terminals with smaller footprint Raspberry Pi computers. About Raspberry Pi. Creating sounds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

On the other hand, I kept wondering whether, in all the excitement about seemingly “new” models and approaches (which often are not so new ), we are losing sight of the basics. GEO’s 2012 National Conference shares a range of perspectives and new ideas [.] The questions are: 1. What is your organization aiming to accomplish?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. The Packard Foundation did find significant value in Learning in Public and has launched an effort to refresh the strategy for its Organizational Effectiveness Program in public, with crisp goals and a clear audience.

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Qgiv

MARCH 9, 2022

For example, a 2012 article published by American Health and Drug Benefits found that stable housing contributes significantly to better health outcomes and less utilization of the healthcare system. Unfortunately for many, homelessness doesn’t have an expiration date, but you can use a peer-to-peer model to support year-round giving.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

Socio-economic variables can be extracted from the ACS directly into a Shapefile for mapping or other forms of analysis and modeling. While the primary focus of their project was short-term forecasting of crime risk, ACS Alchemist is a great, user-friendly, free-to-the-public tool for anyone interested in analyzing complex Census data.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Data from the American Printing House for the Blind’s annual registry of legally blind students shows that in 2012 only 8.8% of legally blind children in public and residential schools used braille as their primary reading medium. And today, braille is not being taught to most blind children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Connect Alumni with Current School Experience. Conversation starters that link alumni to the current school experience can spark tons of engagement. Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. Make up your own nostalgia meme.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

There has been some discussion about for-profit alternatives to the traditional nonprofit model, such as “B” (for benefit) and “L3C” (Low-profit Limited Liability Company) corporations, which combine low profits with a social mission. One such model is the Social Impact Bond (SIB). Impacts of SIBs — It is too early to tell. Click here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Their marketing has tangible results: in 2012 alone they raised $33 million, and over $8 million of that was raised through their online fundraising platform. Encourage Donors to Spread the Word by Sharing Their Personal Experiences With Your Organization. How can your organization apply this? How can your organization apply this?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

She was a free agent for a long time, until the beginning of 2012, when she joined the teaching staff of Khan Academy. More importantly, it means that we should be looking to their model to push ourselves in how we think about delivering the most engaging, powerful content possible. But there are other content models we can explore.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Analytic Activism documents how nonprofits are using analytics to listen, experiment, learn, and thrive in the digital era. We develop public engagement and pressure tactics with the intent of seeing them amplified through the media. That’s an elegant story of data wizards manipulating the public.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 7, 2012

TheNextWeb.com blogger Alex Wilhelm writes that "Long-form content is headed back to the business model of the pamphlet, with short works selling at low price points and in large quantity." Finally, curation means that things are assembled in a very specific way to give a cohesive and user-friendly experience.".

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 2, 2022

Giving 150 local communities £1 million each with no strings attached: This is the leap of faith the National Lottery Community Fund took in 2012 when it established a nonprofit organisation called Local Trust to deliver Big Local, a programme that puts money directly into the hands of communities across the UK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I had heard of GuideStar in the US, but being face to face with the founder, and understanding the credibility of information in a self-reported model, based on transparency and public accountability, was like the discovery of a solution much needed in India. Ever since that experience, we WhatsApp documents to NGOs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

The Broadcast Web i.e., one-to-many communications defined as broadcasting outward with complete control of the message and no public interaction or feedback. Well, as of October 2012, Google Wallet is the first wallet service to launch the ability to donate online via a Google Wallet “Donate” button.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The Broadcast Web i.e., one-to-many communications defined as broadcasting outward with complete control of the message and no public interaction or feedback. Well, as of October 2012, Google Wallet is the first wallet service to launch the ability to donate online via a Google Wallet “Donate” button.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

The Broadcast Web i.e., one-to-many communications defined as broadcasting outward with complete control of the message and no public interaction or feedback. Well, as of October 2012, Google Wallet is the first wallet service to launch the ability to donate online via a Google Wallet “Donate” button.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

[Editorial note: the following article first appeared in the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , a free quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders.] That’s the complicated part of social change - complicated problems call for complicated solutions, even when our business models force us to focus on one simple arena.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

As this article from BusinessGreen says, boycotts have gone up by 123 per cent from 2010-2012 ; if consumers consider you irresponsible, they won’t buy your product. Focus on communicating to your consumers that the planet is at the heart of your business model and will not be compromised for the sake of profit. .

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

As this article from BusinessGreen says, boycotts have gone up by 123 per cent from 2010-2012 ; if consumers consider you irresponsible, they won’t buy your product. Focus on communicating to your consumers that the planet is at the heart of your business model and will not be compromised for the sake of profit. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

In addition to providing much-needed funds, the campaign would allow the Greater Greener team to validate their idea: if the campaign were successful, they could demonstrate to city officials that there was strong public support for this project. David Batstone, Not For Sale (Co-Founder and President).

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The experiment proved successful. Of course, this is an experiment, and the proof of concept remains in the execution. Given the lack of established models, there will undoubtedly be some unanticipated curves ahead. The user experience of the BerkShares app will resemble those of mobile payment services such as Venmo.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

The successful campaigns are using e-commerce, video, photos, blogging, mobile action, widgets, event management and more to augment the traditional (and extremely effective) precinct organizing model. But of course mapping has gone public. 2012 may be the year that Second Life emerges as a major player in a national election.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Consider, for example, the case of Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery platform founded in San Francisco in 2012. 25 These companies are wedded to a model of platform capitalism and do not advance notions of sharing rides or homes in the absence of hefty profit potential. 11 According to a 2017 report, 57.3

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last week, I finally watched The Art of the Steal , an arresting documentary on the controversy around the evolution of the Barnes Foundation from a suburban educational art facility to a major urban art museum (to open in May 2012). Unlike most art collections, Barnes' art was neither exclusively private nor a public museum.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

Why and how museums could develop their co-creative practice with the public, building on ideas from the performing arts and other non-museum organisations (free to download). Louise mostly focuses on the experiences and commentary of the professionals who run these performing arts organizations, though she did interview a few participants.

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