Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2010

And though it is sometimes not easy to admit or accept, our lifestyle left unchanged will have detrimental effects on our national security, our economy, our planet and all its inhabitants. More than 1 billion people participate in Earth Day activities, making it the largest secular civic event in the world. Facebook: Green Festivals.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

And there are more than 500,000 people in America experiencing housing instability on any given night. And while the issue of stable housing isn’t unique to the Bay Area, as a region that’s home to global companies like Levi’s, Facebook, Uber, Apple, and yes, Salesforce, it offers a stark example of just how pervasive the problem is.

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AUGUST 16, 2022

5000 list , the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. Facebook, Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. Cloud for Good Recognized as a Nationally Registered Apprenticeship Program by the U.S.

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JUNE 26, 2012

Next came Social Media where platforms like Facebook and Twitter have revolutionized the way we engage with our supporters. We already see nonprofits that host run, walk, and ride events prove this concept works as the top 30 alone have generated $1.69 billion from these fundraisers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The training event, which will be live streamed starting at 9:00 am , will feature fundraising and social media gurus Katya Andresen, Danielle Brigida, Tracy Equality Viselli, Jocelyn Harmon and more. While they had a relatively smaller number of followers on Twitter or Facebook, they had focused on engaging their community online.

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OCTOBER 18, 2009

In 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge encouraged 70,000 individuals to help raise more than $1.8 With the explosion of social media, America’s Giving Challenge hopes to get even more people involved this year and raise a lot more money for nonprofits. Tags: Nonprofit Events Social Networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Note From Beth: I’m a huge fan of Giving Days because they raise the awareness, engagement, and donations to nonprofits and being generous. Last week, we watched as a national day of giving and awareness campaign for “Giving Tuesday” unfold and spur spikes in donations. Social media specific webinars.

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Care2

OCTOBER 31, 2012

American Red Cross: Red Cross Facebook page/information. Give Blood (They’ve had to cancel well over 100 blood donor events because of the storm.) Facebook Global Disaster Relief page : all kinds of information and helping opportunities. Check it out and let me know if you have additional resources to add.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our free events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. Upcoming Tech4Good Events. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Europe and UK.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Small nonprofits can now just as easily be early adopters of this new technology as the large national and international nonprofits. They also Tweet and post on Facebook: Text SEIU to 787753 for mobile updates! SONC uses text alerts to inform supporters about upcoming events and breaking news. DoSomething.org :: Subscribe.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

National Volunteer Week has come and gone, but I ask you to join me every week in celebrating the amazing contributions of TechSoup's NetSquared community. hours planning each event, so more than 4,000 volunteer hours were contributed in 2016. hours planning each event, so more than 4,000 volunteer hours were contributed in 2016.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

EveryAction is built to scale and is now trusted by some of the nation's largest nonprofits - from the United Nations Foundation, to Planned Parenthood, Comic Relief, the Audubon Society and Greenpeace. Use a powerful Facebook Ads integration. It's trusted by some of the largest nonprofits. Visualize your data like never before.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2011

One email to David Cush, the CEO of Virgin America and he graciously agreed to help out. Meanwhile, a team at Stanford University is running a bone marrow event with cheek swabbing for Amit today and next week (@100KCheeks) and helping universities across the country run similar simple events through DoSomething.org.

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

Community-driven campaigns are perfect for your spring fundraising efforts, especially if you’re looking to capitalize on the warmer weather and add an event element like a 5k or Marathon to your traditional campaign. Amigos de las Americas uses peer-to-peer fundraising, a type of community-driven fundraising, to engage their supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

What Happened on Give Local America Day? Early on Give Local America Day , reports of slow page loads and server crashes started to trickle in from a couple of community foundations hosting Giving Days using the Kimbia platform. I think I suffered PSTD from this watching and why this blog post was not written earlier).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

It's called Bullseye Gives, a special Facebook page inviting folks to decide how they should allocate $3 million among ten large institutional charities, including: Parent Teacher Association Feeding America The Salvation Army American Red Cross National Parks Foundation Breast Cancer Research Foundation St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

October 11 has been declared the “ International Day of the Girl ” and the launch of an international campaign called “ Because I am A Girl ” by the Plan, one of oldest and largest children’s development organizations in the world that works in 50 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas to promote child (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Here's an update from Mike Everett-Lane on the Social Actions blog about how the nonprofit tech community is supporting the event. This year’s theme is “Digital Inclusion” and there will be local service events that you can join! Here's some ways to participate: 1. More information here.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Check out the latest articles, news, and events from NTEN Members! Neighborworks America takes you behind the scenes and shares how to roll with the unexpected when an important visitor comes to your organization. Chances are you''re on Facebook, but chances are you may not know how to get the value you could out of this platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2011

As the leading global advocate for making and supporting games created for social impact, we want to share some of the exciting events at this year’s Festival that we feel will resonate with nonprofits. The 8th Annual Games for Change Festival takes place on June 20 – 22 in New York City. June 20 – 22 is fast approaching.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

She is a public speaker, consultant, and event planner and heads up programming, marketing, and event logistics for the series. The next conference will be in New Delhi on December 5, and then we'll be back in North America in 2013, heading to New York City , Silicon Valley , and Vancouver , plus most other major U.S.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

Twitter's technical staff was only 10 percent women, and Facebook and Yahoo's was at 15 percent. Additionally, there are more open jobs today in America — and the majority of them are in information technology. I first learned about Year Up's local Bay Area chapter through a Microsoft YouthSpark initiative event.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

This year kicked off with the launch of the new United Nations agenda for global philanthropy, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will take us through 2030. Clearly, Facebook is the undisputed heavyweight champion of social media world. An admin for your Facebook page needs to do the application. The Backdrop.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 28, 2014

We found out about BIKERSCAP when the organization's CEO, Greg Reaster , posted on our Facebook page "TechSoup has made all we do here at BIKERSCAP possible. BIKERSCAP now has around 20 volunteers, mostly older bikers, who meet on weekends to fix PCs and hold charitable events. Back in my 20s, I was a law enforcement officer.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. Facebook’s Problematic News Feeds.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Not only that, but with the move to more and more online giving (there was a 32% increase in online revenue in 2020), events like #GivingTuesday have become an even more important part of your fundraising calendar. Activity or Event: An event is a great way to raise funds for your year-end campaign on the spot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Feeding America has a national hunger study. You can’t link to a specific page inside the document – if you want to share one page on Facebook the best you can do is link to the whole document, and when your friend clicks and realizes it’s a 30 page PDF they hate you. It’s a significant event and you should pay attention.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Latin America and the Caribbean. 16% participate in endurance fundraising events, such as marathons and bike-a-thons. 32% have donated through Facebook Fundraising Tools. 32% have donated through Facebook Fundraising Tools. Of those, 89% said they are likely to give through Facebook Fundraising Tools again.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the issues they champion have taken a backseat in people’s minds this year, as our nation’s attention has been captured by one shocking event after another. WFP USA shared their blog post of Rani’s story on Facebook for Literacy Day on September 8. The Facebook post included two hashtags , #LiteracyDay and #AHandUp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

This has been found in a number of surveys over the past few years (see Allison Fine's astute commentary on the recent Blackbaud survey here ) If we look back a year ago at donation trends on Facebook Causes, we also see the same complaint. The Long Tail of Facebook Causes. Find one fundraising event or idea to take online this year.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The French government extended the gift of the Statue of Liberty to the United States in 1876, in recognition of our first 100 years as a nation. The statue was a gift, of course, but America had to come up with the pedestal on which to set the statue. He was astounded that America was so apathetic concerning this magnificent gift.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

amysampleward : does growing a Facebook Fan page numbers count? creativegreeniu : Direct contact from national 350 organizers incredibly effective in motivating me. America’s Giving Challenge = push vs. Kiva peer-to-peer microfinance = pull. Question 1: How do we define campaigning in the context of social media?

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

That’s why we’ve taken the guesswork out of the equation by curating only the best strategic marketing resources for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, and Pinterest. They use hashtags impeccably and they get involved in current events such as Black History Month, and National Love Your Pet Day.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

NAACP + NAACP Legal Defense Fund —The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization formed as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. . Attend Events .

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

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