Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2016

According to the latest statistics from the Urban Institute , donors gave over $350 billion in 2014, a five percent increase from 2013. While this is wonderful news for nonprofits and foundations, these organizations still face a significant challenge: how to be the donor’s choice amid a wealth of giving options. Information.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2016

According to the latest statistics from the Urban Institute , donors gave over $350 billion in 2014, a five percent increase from 2013. While this is wonderful news for nonprofits and foundations, these organizations still face a significant challenge: how to be the donor’s choice amid a wealth of giving options. Information.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2013

So when the latest version of Microsoft Office became available for eligible nonprofits, charities, libraries, and foundations through the Microsoft Software Donation Program , we teamed up with our friends at Microsoft Citizenship and Doug Thomas, content producer for Office.com, to host a tweet chat. Use OneNote! (It's Share and Learn.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Knight Foundation ; Sharon Pian Chan, Director of Journalist Initiatives, the Seattle Times ; and Joe Neel, Deputy Supervising Editor, NPR. New venture journalism has been incubated thanks to nonprofit and foundation support.” According to the 2013 Foundation Center report , U.S. and James L. million in 2009 to $687.6

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Some of the most impressive ones include: Blue Drop Awards 2013 - Best Non-Profit Websites. The 2013 Activism awards go mainly to charities and include: Change.org. Born This Way Foundation. The best advice I found in there is to: Create a clutter-free home page that encourages exploration. Who, What, Wow. Voiceless Eyes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

After spending a year facilitating a peer learning community of Knight Foundation grantees hosting giving days, one of the most factors for success for local no nonprofits participating is having about 6-9 months timeframe to develop a plan. NetworkforGood to the rescue! million in a day on #GivingTuesday 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2016

Community foundations across the country have been promoting local giving days to motivate people to support nearby charities, encourage nonprofits to embrace technology, and bolster their reputations. based software company, created Give Local America so community foundations could host annual one-day fundraising events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I delivered the ending keynote on the second day and my colleague from the UN Foundation, Aaron Shernian started the second day of the conference, a day packed with ideas, content, and inspiration from the best of Brasil. Un Foundation. The three-day conference was amazing (you can view the schedule here ). Teens As Free Agents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. on November 14, 2013. Special thanks also to you Beth for your consultation, advice and cheerleading!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

After she co-founded the Foundation For Friends of Nature in Bolivia, a million acres of natural habitat were put in to public trust. Places like TechSoup and the National Cristina Foundation put out the word that donated computers were badly needed in Louisiana, and they came by the truckload. They needed a capable person in charge.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

TechSoup's own social media team weigh in on the report and offer their advice for making wise social media decisions. It lays a good foundation for what sort of resources are required for photo and video creation, how to get started, which platforms to use for what, as well as tools on the rise. It doesn't have to be scary.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The list includes See3 Communications '' 2013 Benchmarks for Nonprofit Video , mGive ''s recent Text Giving Study , M+R Research Lab ''s eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , and the 2013 Visual Storytelling Best Practices Guide by Resource Media , all for free! There are even a few international reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

TechSoup wrote up this post based on some very early innovators in 2013, but still only a handful of nonprofits had established a presence. The Annenberg Foundation has been sharing snaps from behind the scenes at its leadership conference. Several years ago, I noticed that DoSomething.Org was actively experimenting on SnapChat.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

2013 was a strong year for fundraising, with charities posting their best increase since before the economy plunged in 2008, according to the 2013 Charitable Giving Report. With serious disasters abroad in 2013 eclipsing those in the U.S., “It costs money to bring in money,” McGinly said. .

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The list includes See3 Communications '' 2013 Benchmarks for Nonprofit Video , mGive ''s recent Text Giving Study , M+R Research Lab ''s eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , and the 2013 Visual Storytelling Best Practices Guide by Resource Media , all for free! There are even a few international reports.

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NTEN

JUNE 12, 2012

The Knight Foundation published KaBOOM!: Members Kari Dunn Saratovsky & Derrick Feldmann are working on a book to be published by Jossey Bass in early 2013, titled Cause for Change: The Why & How of Nonprofit Millennial Engagement. Submit your stories, strategies, and sage advice to causeforchangebook@gmail.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Published the Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook. I produced four “ Advanced Practices Webinars ” for the Knight Foundation for Giving Days hosts.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 24, 2015

Here are a few of Leading with Intent’s key findings, and some advice about how we can get beyond B-minus: Getting the people right is fundamental. BoardSource’s year-round board development program for organizational members provides a great foundation for this work, including an annual assessment tool.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

So, if you followed my advice from the first blog post, you have had your implementation meeting, and (if you are all still speaking to one another) one of the outcomes of that meeting is a listing of the accounts that your organization will need in order to provide the reporting required by all the users of the financial statements.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 9, 2021

Courtney then went on to be a volunteer football coach and operator of Classic American Hardwood s, a $40 million lumber company and 2013 inductee into the prestigious Society of Entrepreneurs. Takeaways from the book include Courtney's advice: The true measure of a person's character is how one handles one's failures, not successes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 7, 2013

Study and learn from the nonprofits listed below who had some foresight, got some good advice, and launched responsively designed websites: 1. African Wildlife Foundation :: awf.org. INFOGRAPHIC] 2013: The Year of Responsive Design. Nonprofits please don’t make the same mistake with your next website launch.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As we prepare for our leap into 2014, let’s learn from 2013′s ups and downs – triumphs and flops – and make this next year one for the record books. Here’s Your 2013 Nonprofit Roundup: THIS – thanks to Marc Koenig of Nonprofit Hub: Nonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Having benefited from the generous advice and expertise of many others, we’re honored to share our experience from The Encore Fellowships Network as the “Action” case study in the Winter 2013 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Wisdom About Networks From Encore Network – A Guest Post by Leslye Louie and Lyle Hurst.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 11, 2014

Today, he is a volunteer football coach and operator of Classic American Hardwood s, a $40 million lumber company and 2013 inductee into the prestigious Society of Entrepreneurs. Takeaways from the book include Courtney''s advice: The true measure of a person''s character is how one handles one''s failures, not successes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. The deck provides specific practical advice on charts, color, and maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

Wendy Hanamura (@WHanamura) January 25, 2013. Are there foundations funded initiatives or other efforts to encourage learning from failure in the nonprofit sector? If want to learn more about how to roll your own failfest or failfaire, here’s some how-to advice. 6. Irvine Foundation Arts Innovation Fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

She also recommends using the “fail fest” method that DoSomething had been using for years! (Wouldn’t a failfest be an awesome session at the NTC 2013?). There is an informative interview with Mayur Patel, who leads the Knight Foundation’s evaluation efforts.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Be sure to check out 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 too. Perhaps nonprofits have listened to my advice over the years to time their email campaigns when the most giving happens. Coastal Community Foundation’s Giving News: December 2015. Emails by Hour. Email Frequency. Tiny Heart, Big Love. Get ahead of 2016.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 23, 2014

Here are this week’s nonprofit highlights: In 2013, an estimated $5.1 Nancy Schwartz calls Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation a 5 Star Storytelling Success Story. Billion was raised through peer-to-peer fundraising. That’s a 60% growth since 2012.

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