Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Each year the International Computer Refurbishers Summit awards a lifetime achievement award. This year the award went to Nancy Jo Craig who runs the nonprofit Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council (CACRC) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was not an easy road for Nancy. Coming Back Home and a Challenge of a Lifetime.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Note from Beth: Last year John Haydon reached out about a special project he was working on for the CTK Foundation that was providing some resources and financial support for nonprofits. 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.

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JANUARY 24, 2013

Make 2013 the year your fundraising comes of age. Join Paul Habig of SankyNet, Sarah Alexander of Food & Water Watch, and Eric Rardin of Care2 as they outline the critical and often easy ways you can boost your fundraising results in 2013. com where he helps hundreds of nonprofits connect with donors and supporters online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Photo courtesy of The Miami Foundation. These strategies are helping community foundations experiment, iterate and implement best practices when it comes to hosting Giving Days as well as document and spread those practices to others in the Network. Note from Beth: It’s Giving Day Season! Give Miami Day raises record $5.2

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AUGUST 5, 2022

It helps to start with a clear, shared definition of purpose and what it means to be a purpose-driven company. CVS realized that tobacco didn’t align with its purpose: “helping people on their path to better health.” CVS didn’t just remove tobacco from its stores; it launched several programs to help smokers quit.

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NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2013

Four non-profits will receive a Rs 3 crore Global Impact Award and Google''s support to make their winning ideas happen. Apply here or check out past award recipients for a dose of inspiration. Haven''t renewed your 2013 NTEN membership or thinking of joining? Help out with a study! Anything we missed?

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Verizon Awards $20,000 Disaster Relief Grant to the American Red Cross for Colorado flood victims | Justmeans : September 13, 2013 /3BL Media/ - What: The Verizon Foundation today approved a $20,000 disaster relief grant to the American Red Cross to support the agency’s relief efforts for Colorado residents.

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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 Webby Awards is sort of the Academy Awards for web design. It is replete with celebrity awards for people like actor Kevin Spacey, musician David Bowie, Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf, and Arianna Huffington.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

What is it like for a nonprofit to have a successful, lasting partnership with a private philanthropic foundation? One foundation that has been a committed supporter of our work is the Lavelle Fund for the Blind. That’s what a lot of foundations would love to see happen: in this case, it’s happened multiple times!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I have a couple of New Year’s rituals that help prepare me for a new year. Peer Learning Capacity Building Programs: This year I continued my work in designing and facilitating peer learning programs on behalf of several foundations for their grantees. Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Wins 2013 Terry McAdam Nonprofit Book Award.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2016

Does my budget, location, or mission affect my organization's ability to be awarded grants? The primary goal of the twice-yearly State of Grantseeking™ survey and report is to help you understand the recent trends in grantseeking, and how you can use those trends to grow your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2013

December 23, 1921 – June 23, 2013. To honor my Dad’s memory and his love of the ocean, I am raising money for Surfrider Foundation in his memory to support their ocean conservation efforts. And his love for ocean will live on through the work of Surfrider Foundation. RIP: Earl Kanter, MD. Love Never Dies.

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Care2

APRIL 1, 2013

The winner will receive a cash award of $1,000, plus Care2 will donate an additional $1,000 to their favorite charity. The prize will be awarded on April 13th at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Minneapolis, during the awards luncheon hosted by our partners at NTEN. to cast your votes to help select the winner!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

NTEN Members share knowledge and experience, help their peers, and give of their time and expertise all year long. In November, we recognize all that sharing and generosity and say a heartfelt #NTENThanks – and we encourage you to say #NTENThanks on social media or nominate someone you admire to receive an award.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Grant funding can be a great way for a nonprofit to boost its revenue, with giving by corporations and foundations in the United States in 2013 amounting to $67 billion. While that may help to win grants from some funders, other funders will want to take a more in-depth look into the organization and the program before awarding funds.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

Community Improvement and Capacity Building: Fewer Grant Awards. According to the State of Grantseeking 2011 responses, community improvement and capacity building -focused organizations (CICB) receive more awards from private foundations than from any other grant source. Private Foundations Play a Bigger Role.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge received many many entries from 12 different countries. The Freedom To Dream video by Dalit Freedom Network in Vancouver, BC, Canada was the grand prize winner in 2013. Our audience choice award for 2012 went to Alliance Center for Independence (ACI) in Edison, New Jersey.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

After answering this question at eight of nine sold-out conferences and earning a 92% approval rating from more than 2,500 nonprofit leaders in our first conference series, Social Media for Nonprofits realized that there are a lot more community leaders out there still wrestling with this question, and we’re here to help.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Find the first installment of this series, Developing a Grant Project here , the second installment, Researching government funders here , and the third installment on researching foundations here. Corporations and businesses sometimes create foundations or giving programs with funds generated from their profits. Information Today.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Let's say that the XYZ Foundation awards your nonprofit a grant for 2011. In QuickBooks, set up a customer called "XYZ Foundation." " Next, set up a job underneath the XYZ Foundation called "2011 XYZ Foundation Grant." 2011 AT&T Foundation Gran. XYZ Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

I’m honored to be part of the Schusterman Philanthropic Network and Jim Joseph Foundation for #NetTalks , a free, five-part webinar series for Jewish professionals who want to tap into the power and potential of alumni networks. Let’s take a look at some of the specific tactics for engagement or conversation starters.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media,” Beth was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013. Kivi Leroux Miller. NonprofitMarketingGuide.com. She is also a certified executive coach.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

On the federal grant side, and increasingly on the foundation side, new regulations and policies have made survival as a grant-funded organization more challenging by adding additional layers of accountability and complexity for grant recipients. What Changed: Focus on Performance Management.

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2022

We are excited to announce that Forum One has been recognized as a 2022 Vega Awards winner of 10 awards in seven different categories! The Vega Awards acknowledge those who create and continually expand the digital universe. Without further ado – here are this year’s 2022 Vega Award Winners! The Harry S.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

As always, I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends. The nonprofit World Wide Web Foundation. The Alliance is about removing that barrier and helping as many as possible get online at reasonable cost.” All that and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

We introduced the GuideStar Seals of Transparency in 2013 to address these questions and to provide visible recognition when a nonprofit shares information on GuideStar. Private foundations also hold Seals of Transparency. As of late last year, 1,512 foundations had earned Seals, 369 of them at the Gold or Platinum level.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Each year the Electronics Reuse Conference awards a lifetime achievement award in my name (it's a long story on how that came to be). This year the award went to Kyle Wiens, the co-founder of iFixit. These have helped to stimulate significant design improvements by Apple, Dell, Samsung, and other electronics companies.

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sgEngage

APRIL 14, 2022

But the biggest loser when internal controls fail is the trust placed in you by your donors and the people you help. . In 2013, CBS News reported that the U.S. Likewise, moving to a common fund accounting platform where information resides instead of multitudes of spreadsheets can help break down silos among departments.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

I just read the new book from Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, and strategy guru Roger Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works. Even though I’m a Skoll Award winner, it really made me think about my organization, Benetech, and what we are trying to accomplish.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Note From Beth: Next month I’m lucky enough to be doing the keynote at Social Media for Nonprofits Conference in San Francisco to share some ideas from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Nonprofit book award. Conferences'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

Wendy Hanamura (@WHanamura) January 25, 2013. Don’t be afraid of failure because it often helps uncover a better idea or approach.” Are there foundations funded initiatives or other efforts to encourage learning from failure in the nonprofit sector? Global Giving’s Honest Loser Award.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The Baby Steps Video Competition makes one big statement… that engaging with a child in the first five years of life, regardless of the activity, is the single most important step parents, care providers and educators can take to helping that child succeed.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2017

But the biggest loser when internal controls fail is the trust placed in you by your donors and the people you help. Here’s an example: In 2013, CBS News reported that the U.S. Likewise moving to a common platform where information resides instead of multitudes of spreadsheets can help break down silos between departments.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Be sure to check out 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 too. Best Subject Line Award goes to Oxfam America Ambassador Aziz Ansari for his “Bad fruitcake news, Steve” message. Very innovative and clever way to turn something only seen by fundraisers to help drive year-end gifts. LAST CHANCE–PLEASE HELP!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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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. Nancy Schwartz calls Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation a 5 Star Storytelling Success Story. That’s a 60% growth since 2012.

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