Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The United States has Give Local America Day (May 1, 2018). Each state organizes giving campaigns through local community foundations. $68 Also, activate your ambassadors. Be very active throughout the day on social media.1. Post on Facebook a minimum of 3X. Go live on Facebook and Instagram at least once.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 15, 2023

Currently, the fire has burned over 1,000 acres of land, and firefighters are still active, battling flare-ups in Lahaina and in Maui’s inland Upcountry region. The Salvation Army is activating to provide displaced persons and others needing help with food, shelter, emotional and spiritual care, and other critical services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

What Happened on Give Local America Day? The activities for this community of practice included regular conference calls primarily for the cohort, webinars for a broader audience of community foundations, and an online safe space open to any community foundation hosting a giving day to share knowledge and tips with colleagues.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

You can use a Facebook event, Eventbrite or a simple campaign site like splashthat. Design a local route with varying distances to be both competitive and family-friendly. Take a look at how HikeFor.com is helping Donate Life America raise funds. Canva is a great tool for designing images. Bike-a-Thon. Tour-de-France (July).

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Givinga

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Each of these examples uses a unique tactic to engage employees and increase impact on the local, national, or international community. The campaign donated a meal’s worth of money to food banks every time someone liked their Facebook page, combining philanthropy with social media marketing and brand awareness.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2016

On May 3, 2016, right in the middle of Give Local America day, the online fundraising company Kimbia's donation processing platform stopped working. Give Local America day is a big deal. Monitoring this activity as it began, we dedicated the full resources of our company to resolve the issue as promptly as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The intent is to create an annual national day of giving on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving or this year on November 27, 2012. The campaign will encourage philanthropic activities that support nonprofit organizations. Think about all those marathons or walking events for social causes that have been around before Facebook.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

When I first started myspace.com/nonprofitorganizations almost 4 years ago I had no idea that it would evolve to become as large as it has, or that the brand/community/concept would spread to Facebook , then YouTube , and now Twitter. I was able then to tap into that community when I expanded into Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Central and South America. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Asia and the Pacific Rim. Europe and the UK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I've been participating in service days where I can share my technology skills with local organization. Create your own opportunity: Reach out to a local school, organization or people near you to find out what sort of technology help they need. What are your plans for giving service to your local community this fall? .

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Political Engagement and Activism. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. Their voter registration app can be added to any Facebook Page and allows people to connect via Facebook to register to vote and share with their friends. School and Job Preparedness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2011

Kicking off Wednesday’s activities will be Pulitzer Prize winning author Sheryl WuDunn ( Half the Sky ), who will be leading a keynote conversation with Laura Pincus Hartman of ( Zynga.org ) and Pierre Guillaume Wielezynski, the Head of Web at the World Food Programme. June 20 – 22 is fast approaching.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

However, while in Asia I got to watch CNN Asia and the BBC and read the local press. America didn’t seem like such a mess in the foreign media. Create a Google+ Page for your nonprofit and start informing your communities on Facebook and Twitter that your nonprofit is now also on Google+. Diversify your news sources.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

When you hear the term "hackathon," you might imagine a group of coders getting together to break into a protected website or engaging in some other shady activity. AT&T is very active in the hackthon space, holding weekend events for mobile app creation. or Code for Oakland ). Library Hackathons. The ReStart Challenges.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The weekend event was organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy , Code for America , Random Hacks of Kindness , and many other organizations and companies. Interestingly, the hackathons varied in terms of their activities and the challenges. Honolulu Day of Civic Hacking. ReWrite Oakland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

Fight Hunger us working to end child hunger by 2015 through a global day of awareness called Walk the World and other fund raising and action activities. It also is a Facebook application that I can click on and it takes me over to the web site campaign where I can click and their sponsor donates.19 19 cents to the program.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

In this case, parents with kids dealing with substance abuse, local media, medical professionals and law enforcement. Frank who works with the Partnership for a Drug-Free America in Arizona. If your organizations wants an active blogging program filled with thoughtful posts and voices, offer stipends. Offer Stipends.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

To make sure school supplies aren’t out of reach for any student, they created the Free Teacher Market to help “Erase the Need” for local students. Facebook Live and YouTube Live are free options that your participants will be used to. Family fun days are another creative fundraising that we see. Social media. Final Thoughts.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Give Local worked with other organizations to highlight nonprofits during the holiday season. Activity or Event: An event is a great way to raise funds for your year-end campaign on the spot. Reaching out to your board is another great avenue to boost your year-end fundraising activity. Excert from Fiver’s Toolkit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 26, 2008

Changeblogger Facebook to connect with other changebloggers. Alex Steed will be there as a stop on his Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing tour (which you can donate to, like Beth Kanter did). blogging activism nonprofit changeblogger blog Changemakers/Changeblogger Meetup on October 15.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The leading apps are Snapchat , Facebook Messenger , and WhatsApp. "There are many groups, locally and nationally, making real impact around digital skills and access to devices. When major tech players and platforms like Google, Salesforce, Facebook, PayPal, Kickstarter, etc. This trend is likely to continue."

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

Here are some key highlights from The Changing Demographics of America by Smithsonian. Most of America's net population growth will be among its minorities, as well as in a growing mixed-race population. Where do they hang out online – Facebook, MiGente, or Black Planet? I encourage you to read the entire article. Get educated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Citizen journalists have repeatedly emerged as critical in crisis reporting and several citizen journalist platforms have emerged to harness their potential to report hyper-local news. The notion of a community is really tricky because every web page is a latent community, waiting to be activated. The Obama Girl.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

Facebook discussion board here. As I was reading The Great Good Place I identified with Oldenburg’s description of Main Street USA, small town America, and rural life. Our museum is in small town America. How can a local history museum connect with third places in the community? It’s always been a topic for debate.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

amysampleward : does growing a Facebook Fan page numbers count? I used that tactic locally 2 move others to act. zerostrategist : Q3: I think Access 2 the net, uncensored information, being unmonitored or not fearing reprisals for being an active are important. does growing an email list count? link] was abt ppl, not an org.

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Classy

AUGUST 25, 2021

There’s also a sense of relief and excitement to return to in-person activities. Classy’s Why America Gives report showed the early success of virtual events during the COVID-19 pandemic. Classy’s Why America Gives report showed the early success of virtual events during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sixty percent of U.S.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Black Youth Project — BYP has various local chapters. Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)— SURJ has various local chapters. Take time to celebrate your local community and find ways to support them during this time of celebration. We’ve highlighted a few events local to our offices: Bay Area Juneteenth Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

For example, the Giving Tuesday Toolkit offers some excellent curriculum to involve kids in Giving Day activities. Perhaps your nonprofit has been growing its network on social media platforms and you have the opportunity to activate new supporters through your Facebook, Twitter, and social channels.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Nails, the car, hair, you know, all those local small business vendors that are potential supporters of the organization. You know, it’s local business leaders and high net worth individuals that want to get to know each other but don’t want to go to massive things where everybody’s approaching them. So ask your.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

And what they should start doing was doing the activities that started attracting larger donors, attracting larger gifts that helped his organization lead donors to a deep understanding of what the need was. What is that very nuts and bolt plan because that tells us what our fundraising activities should be for the year?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Twestival Local Weekend : Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water on Twitter on February 13th with more 200 cities sponsoring local tweet, meet, and give parties. Watch for news about the Case Foundation's second America's Giving Challenge. . I'll be participating in one at the end of the month).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

There have also been some good critiques of the article that I’d like to highlight here: Article Isn’t Well Researched: There Are Good Examples Out There of Folks Using Social Media for Activism. Nancy Scola at TechPresident, in a post called, Malcolm Gladwell Goes Searching Twitter for 60’s Activism.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And so I have more than five years of experience creating online and offline communities to support social and environmental causes as Steven said and I worked a lot in Latin America. We have all of Latin America. And it far surpasses the next one, which is Facebook Messenger. So this is me. . So this is. So we have Canada.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

Goals The main goals were to raise awareness of childhood hunger in America, give people the tools to take meaningful action to help end this solvable problem, and create a case study from which non-profits and corporations could learn how to better use social media in their cause marketing.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

If you all don’t know Emma, I mean, I’ve been seeing her awesome videos on LinkedIn and Facebook, and every time, just really good advice and just like breaks through to something that I never thought of that way. What happened was I posted this on Facebook, and I actually got a lot of critical comments on this interesting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

Last week, I read Jocelyn Harmon’s post about Nonprofit Facebook Fail and in the comments, Petri Darby refers to the dramatic increase of visits to his nonprofit’s Make-A-Wish Foundation Web site. Active Social Engagement/Sharing Channels. (Her recent book, Measuring What Matters , is a must read.). More Multimedia.

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