Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

Note from Beth: What if your organization embarked on its first ever crowd funding campaign with a goal of raising $50,000 and only raised $10,000? Director of Programs and Policy answered a few questions about how they used learning and pivoting to get better results. Why did you decide to do a crowd-funding campaign in 2012?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

This week before I leave for the Middle East, I will have the honor of presenting at the Grantmakers For Effective Organization’s Conference in Seattle. I am doing a session called “ Learning in Public ” with Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, TCC Group. Stay tuned for a blog post about it.

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Qgiv

MAY 8, 2023

Regularly communicating with potential donors via email and social media helps keep them engaged while teasing them with what they can expect from attending your fundraiser keeps them excited and eager to donate—which results in increased donations at your events! in 2012 at the age of 24.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 15, 2012

There are more than a million nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Thomas Pollak from the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute, will dive into the results from the 2012 Fundraising Effectiveness Project. and each one is fighting for the same donor dollars you are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

What is the change that will result? These individuals undertook organizing, fundraising, and advocacy – activities that were once only in the control of nonprofits – outside the “control” of nonprofits. What is the definition of success? Free Agents still find creative ways to make a difference today.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

The latest Chronicle of Philanthropy survey of American corporate giving essentially finds that companies are still giving out cash grants, but are putting more energy into product or in-kind philanthropy. The Chronicle of Philanthropy has been surveying large American companies on their philanthropy annually since 2005.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 23, 2023

That means that thousands of organizations all over the world are inspiring generosity in their communities on GivingTuesday. Whether you look at GivingTuesday campaigns from organizations in your hometown or charities on the other side of the world, there’s no shortage of nonprofits who are doing amazing things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. And the development of systems is a challenge, since learning, even when objectives are well-defined, is an organic process. We are all pro-learning, and there’s little obvious downside risk in signaling that we want to be known for it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Funding Services AND Advocacy: The Smart Choice for Grantmakers – guest post by Aaron Dorfman, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. Are we turning a corner in philanthropy? I sure hope so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012. A starting point for envisioning a future state in which data is the ‘GPS of philanthropy.’ Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

But a shifting communications environment and changing donor demographics could render those best practices ineffective at best, and obsolete at worst, as early as 2012. Raising money in 2012 will require creativity and foresight. Donors of all ages will be looking for meaningful points of engagement with your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. According to a survey recently released by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, the answer appears to be ‘not by much’ or at least not fast enough. GEO’s 2012 National Conference shares a range of perspectives and new ideas [.]

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. Some organizations gather data such as program expenditures, customer satisfaction or program outputs (e.g., As part of a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

One goes something like this, ”Our organization has to collect a lot of data, mostly counting data for our funders. But that data doesn’t tell anything about how we can improve and get better results.” Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 4, 2012. What is funder’s role to support good measurement?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 5, 2015

of Americans are non-Hispanic whites , Americans of color still struggle for their voice in many areas of society, namely philanthropy. The underrepresentation of African-Americans and Hispanics suggests that organized philanthropy is not doing an adequate job of engaging non-white communities — Diversity in Giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. What is your organization aiming to accomplish? What are your organization’s capabilities for doing this? How will your organization know if you are making progress? The questions are: 1. He blogs frequently on the CEP Blog.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

Online Fundraising Shows Strong Gains - Online Fundraising - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : Explore Online Fundraising Results, by Quarter The Chronicle uses online fundraising data provided quarterly by Blackbaud, Network for Good, and PayPal to analyze online giving.

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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. While my in-box filled up with many GivingTuesday requests from nonprofits that I support, I was struck by the creativity of how each organization incorporated giving Tuesday into fundraising or donor recognition campaigns.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 5, 2014

Data published last year in the Chronicle of Philanthropy shows this trend clearly: online donations to nonprofits increased 14% in 2012 relative to 2011, while overall donations increased by only 1.5% The result? in the same period. But this trend has been uneven. of its donations online in that period. The lesson?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

This level of increased global philanthropy is worth a further look. The Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity recently published its Annual Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances for 2010 and reported “financial flows to the developing world from the United States increased notably in 2010 to $326.4 PHILANTHROPY (U.S.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This year, the agencies behind the event, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and DataKind, analyzed results in an insight report covering how much money was raised, how many people donated, what the impact of the money was and many other factors that came into play on Nov. Storytelling works. It was an international effort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

While giving related to Hurricane Sandy may boost total fundraising in 2012 it is unlikely to change fundraising results for most nonprofits. But the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University says we are experiencing the second slowest recovery since 1971. Are people giving less because of the economy? billion in revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. This of particular obsession in my world — the world of Jewish philanthropy. To be sure, there must be a baseline for all organizations looking to scale. Want to scale through advocacy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Given the massive cuts we are seeing across the sector, there is no way that private philanthropy can respond on a dollar for dollar basis.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 15, 2012

There are more than a million nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Thomas Pollak from the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute, will dive into the results from the 2012 Fundraising Effectiveness Project. and each one is fighting for the same donor dollars you are.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This new free online data visualization and mapping tool demonstrates the value of applying technology to philanthropy, in this case, creating a place to find out how and where foundations are supporting U.S. As a result, the dataset is only complete through 2012. To quote an overly used advertising tag line: know the gaps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Never, ever brainstorm,” cautioned Jonah Lehrer, the keynote speaker at the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations conference in Seattle. And yet brainstorming, “consensus-building” processes are endemic to our field.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Nonprofit organizations are vital to the nation’s economic well-being and have nearly doubled in the last 30 years (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2015). It may be time to rethink how these important social organizations are funded. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 10, 2012

The term social economy puts up front the economic value of social organizations — that they produce and market services, employ people, may own valuable assets, and generate social value. It encompasses the income sources that drive our society: profit, government, philanthropy, earned income. 18 & 19.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Bill Gates wrote about it in his annual letter earlier this year, when he said he was “thinking a lot harder about how we can use the web to make it easier for givers of all sizes to connect to causes and see the results of their giving.”

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

On September 6, 2012, TechSoup held a free webinar with two guest presenters from The Foundation Center. George Ford gave an overview and tour of the Foundation Directory Online , including tips for finding funding to match your organization’s mission and location. View the archived recording of the Got Grants?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2016

My colleagues, all experts, practitioners, and instigators share a passion for inspiring others to build great organizations for greater societal impact and increasing the expectation and adoption of high performance in the field. Is your organization ready to join them? Every nonprofit gets equal space. Early signs are promising.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

Social service and nonprofit programs have traditionally been supported through philanthropy and government contracts. Needs continue to grow beyond what philanthropy or government can provide. SIBs — Funding Innovation Moves From Philanthropy to the Market. One such model is the Social Impact Bond (SIB).

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 18, 2013

As the founder and creative director of Catapult, a start-up nonprofit organization that helps development projects for women and girls get funding, she has every reason to boast. Catapult, a crowdfunding site that insists on transparency and engagement with donors, is one of several organizations changing the world of philanthropy.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

(GrantStation is a set of tools and resources to help organizations identify and secure grant dollars.) OK — confession time — I love data — but the data from the State of Grantseeking Survey has real, valuable results that can impact the grantseeking success of nonprofits. What is the age of your organization?

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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. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

So we’ve compiled 10 of the most valuable philanthropic resources available to help get you to the best results—and not twiddle your thumbs while you try to figure it out! Here are 10 of the most helpful reports and resources for philanthropy professionals: Giving in an Election Year. 50 Fascinating Philanthropy Stats.

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