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Conversational Case Study: Myth or Fact - Can Small Nonprofits Win with Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge.

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Will Give Local America Be The Largest Crowd Funding Event in History?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Give Local America , powered by Kimbia’s technology, is an effort to coordinate giving days on one platform. Last year, Give Local America raised more than $53 million from more than 306,000 gifts in 2014. Give Local America emphasizes small, local nonprofits. 1) #iGiveLocal. 4) Leaderboard App. Lori Finch.

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Nonprofits Mentioned in the Book

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Some are featured in case studies, others are simply listed as examples of excellence. Electonic Frontier Foundation. Latin America Working Group. By the time I am done writing, there could easily be over 200 nonprofits mentioned in the book. Nonprofits mentioned in the book thus far are: Amnesty International.

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New Tips from the Giving Day Playbook on Crowdfunding Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From GiveMN Case Study - Click for Case Study. Note from Beth: I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. Today, we are excited to share them.

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Which Social Networking Analysis Term Best Describes Virgin America?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. I flew back from DC last night on Virgin America. How would you describe Virgin America in social networking analysis and mapping terminology? .

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Why Can’t the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector Scale Generosity? #givedaylessons

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What Happened on Give Local America Day? For the past few years, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees , all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. Here’s a case study from Kivi Leroux Miller documenting what they did.

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Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Network Impact team spent 18 months consulting with civic tech thought leaders and offering technical assistance to Knight Foundation grantees focused on assessing the impact of their technologies. Code for America , one of the organizations that we worked with, is already implementing outcome assessments.

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