Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. Coordinate analysis and writing work with human rights monitoring and advocacy organizations, academic collaborators, and courts throughout the world.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The photos are the centerpiece of NRDC’s handsome report, and they compel readers to read more about the programs and advocacy projects of NRDC in their effort to protect our planet. The magazine-like quality to the report makes it accessible to high school kids and corporate sponsors alike. The answer is no one.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 15, 2017

The Climate Reality Advocacy Bot. Environmental advocacy nonprofit Climate Reality uses a bot on its Facebook page to encourage supporters to become more involved in the fight against climate change. Take a look at how three nonprofits use chatbots to engage with their communities. Happy chatting! spanhidden

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NTEN

JUNE 12, 2014

In 2009, Tanya received a Rising Star award from Campaigns and Elections'' Politics Magazine, recognizing people under 35 years old who have made a significant mark in political consulting or advocacy. She has also worked as a political analyst and a data manager and is a veteran of local, state, and federal electoral campaigns.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2012

Maybe social reports to PR or maybe everyone does work in the same department, but their advocacy and fundraising campaigns are orchestrated independently. The organizational failure to understand the customer experience stymies donor development and advocacy. This siloed approach to nonprofit marketing is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Alliance Magazine, September 2012. ” The other application for nonprofit communications is using ambient social media data to inform advocacy campaigns. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Beth’s Blog, September 2011. Larry McGill, “ Data for Good.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

Time Magazine provocatively named “The Protester” as its 2011 “Person of the Year” for its riveting influence on last year’s social and political events. Infusing Social Into Social Justice Organizations – Guest Post by Daniel Jae-Won Lee, Executive Director of the Levi Strauss Foundation.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2017

The Climate Reality Advocacy Bot. Environmental advocacy nonprofit Climate Reality uses a bot on its Facebook page to encourage supporters to become more involved in the fight against climate change. Take a look at how three nonprofits use chatbots to engage with their communities. Happy chatting! spanhidden

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Social Media is definitely going mobile, and I have listed below three mobile strategies that your nonprofit can start experimenting with and considering for 2010: 1) Text-messaging for advocacy and fundraising: Services like Mobile Commmons and mGive offer mass text-messaging and Text-to-Give services for nonprofits.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 3, 2021

To do so, they turned to their ERGs for employee-driven campaigns, education, and volunteering and advocacy opportunities. After spending 12 years as an editor for consumer-facing technology magazines, she turned her attention to marketing SaaS-based B2B enterprise solutions. Increased Focus on Mental Health.

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Care2

JUNE 2, 2010

In The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting With Social Media To Drive Change, co-authors Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, show how social media is catalyzing a shift away from this type of “organization-centric&# advocacy, governance and communications toward a “network-centric&# approach.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

I invite you to read Daniel’s first-person account of his expert testimony as published in the statistical magazine Chance. We advanced human rights advocacy and the community more broadly by placing human rights at the forefront of academic research and by educating wide audiences about statistical best practices in the analysis of violence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. The purpose of the Design Lab was to answer two key questions to gather input for its strategy: How can the Brainerd Foundation and its philanthropic partners accelerate the transition to 21st Century advocacy for grantees?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

The Alliance for Biking and Walking creates, strengthens, and unites state and local bicycle and pedestrian advocacy organizations. The contest will help them build a biking and walking advocacy photo library that will provide free, high quality images of biking and walking to Alliance member organizations.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

It’s also great news for the many Frogloop readers who are nonprofit professionals and consultants engaged in online advocacy, fundraising and marketing. Magazine -- that promote Care2 campaigns via their websites and email to an additional 80 million civic-minded citizens. 201 / sueanne@care2team.com

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Care2

JANUARY 20, 2010

Every day I carve out at least 30 minutes to read articles by some of my favorite nonprofit practioner bloggers filled with useful new data and thoughtful analyses of fundraising, online advocacy and social media. Below are my top picks for the week.

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Care2

DECEMBER 31, 2010

com , where she is responsible for connecting nonprofits to Care2’s 14 million + members so that they can acquire new donors, members and advocacy supporters, online. She writes a bi-monthly column for Fundraising Success magazine. Jocelyn Harmon is Director of Nonprofit Services for Care2.com

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Care2

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Increasing its dedication to helping nonprofits connect with over 12 million civically-active members in their online advocacy, fundraising and list growth, Care2 is pleased to announce the addition of Jocelyn Harmon as Director of Nonprofit Services. She also writes a bi-monthly column for Fundraising Success magazine.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 30, 2007

Rochelle specializes in online advocacy using technology for positive change in public consciousness, law, and social policy. One of the cool things on her site is a link to Social Change Websites , a directory of nonprofit, grassroots and advocacy campaign web sites. The site is Rochelle's brainchild.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

The discussion wandered from writing to advocacy to curating to poetry to copyright. Mercy Corps publishes his writing in the form of exclusive stories for newspapers and magazines. We ate at Six Feet Under , a delightful seafood restaurant overlooking the famous Oakland Cemetery.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Su Patel of WITNESS, will tell you more about the WITNESS Hub a new advocacy platform for sharing and watching videos about human rights. Morgan Jindrich of Consumers Union (the great organization that publishes Consumer Reports magazine), will tell the amazing inside story of the Cover America Tour.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

Its mission is to advance philanthropy through advocacy, research, education and certification programs. Even his pointers to traditional stories like the Fundraising Success Magazine ’s “ Fundraising Advice From Katya Andresen Over the Years ” are good insightful pieces.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Their creativity may inspire others.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2014

That likely means more email “asks” this year (donations, event registrants, advocacy actions) and fewer retention emails, like reporting back to donors and building relationships. Let people know you’re being featured somewhere (TV, radio, magazine, etc.). It conveys the progress you’re making is newsworthy.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2014

That likely means more email “asks” this year (donations, event registrants, advocacy actions) and fewer retention emails, like reporting back to donors and building relationships. Let people know you’re being featured somewhere (TV, radio, magazine, etc.). It conveys the progress you’re making is newsworthy.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Currently, Doug serves as a judge for CIO Magazine’s prestigious CIO 100 Awards. Ashley Hansen -- Director of Nonprofit Services, Care2 Ashley works with nonprofits to win advocacy campaigns, strengthen their online fundraising program and drive traffic to their website. He received a B.A. in Psychology and an M.B.A.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2012

You can read her writing in Fundraising Success magazine and her personal blog, Marketing for Nonprofits. Jocelyn is also a recognized blogger and speaker on online marketing and fundraising. Finally, she serves on the board of directors for NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Network).

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Achieve

AUGUST 13, 2015

Fundraising & Philanthropy Australasia Magazine. Aided by technology, an individual who donates his or her voice may still give skills, time, and money, and then go beyond these actions to advocacy. This piece originally appeared in. Historically, the media spread the generation gap story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Michele Martin has an excellent post about how to make the most of Netvibes, an RSS reader, for nonprofit applications such as advocacy, marketing, and customer service. Netsquared featured project WiserEarth In Ode Magazine Social Media Resources. Frogloop has a brief report from this week's Internet Advocacy Roundtable.

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Care2

JULY 19, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) and let me know what you think!

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) and let me know what you think!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

Allyson Kapin is the editor of Frogloop , Care2's blog for nonprofit professionals in online marketing, fundraising and advocacy. She was recently named one of the top tech titans by Washingtonian Magazine. Bonus – for every click generated, FreeCause will donate money to your nonprofit.

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See3

APRIL 6, 2009

Her direct mail portfolio includes work for Highlights Magazine, The New York Times and AOL. See3 specializes in online strategy for fundraising and advocacy. In addition, Sexton worked for nine years as art director in the direct marketing department of the National Geographic Society. About See 3 Communications.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2016

" So wrote Cynthia Gibson, then of the Carnegie Corporation , and Nonprofit Quarterly Editor-in-Chief Ruth McCambridge in a 2008 special issue of that magazine dedicated to infrastructure. And we need advocacy for new levels of excellence and for policies that support our work.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This article originally ran in our Nonprofit Hub Magazine. With the access we now have to technology, an individual who donates his or her voice may still give skills, time and money, and then go beyond these actions to the point of advocacy. Derrick is the founder of MCON, the nation’s premier event on millennials and social good.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

This Challenge encourages innovations with mobile technologies in human rights investigations and advocacy. Oh, and while this isn't tech-oriented, I was happy to see NTEN member organization Green America (formerly Co-Op America) featured in the January issue of ASAE's magazine for their "lunch cooporeratives" initiative.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2009

Largest Online Social Action Community of 10 Million "Do Gooders" Adds Fundraising and Advocacy Experts Allyson Kapin and Stephen O’Keefe, Who Bring Decades of Experience at Helping Nonprofits Succeed Redwood City, Calif.

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