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FEBRUARY 21, 2008

The final, official results have arrived for America's Giving Challenge and I'm happy say that we came in first place for global causes ! My America's Giving Challenge Dairy. Day 1: We're Entering the America's Giving Challenge. America's Giving Campaign: Bloggers Roundup - Thank You. Special thanks to Michele Martin!

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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. Experiencing a cascading technology failure in real time for just one community is painful enough.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Dan Michel, Digital Marketing Manager, Feeding America Twitter: @dpmichel. Last week, Dan Michel offered an intriguing answer to this question : “What form of social media measurement does your organization engage in; Community participation, advocacy (earned mentions, discussions), or donations ($ or time)?

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DECEMBER 13, 2007

I also want to highlight some of the great people, like you, my dear readers, who have supported the Sharing Foundation (especially the kind and generous folks who have supported Leng Sopharath ) and the scores of dedicated volunteers who have given so generously of their time to the Sharing Foundation.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

One email to David Cush, the CEO of Virgin America and he graciously agreed to help out. Porter Gale Porter Gale is former VP of Marketing at Virgin America. Getting the place ticket was easy. Finding the perfect bone marrow match for Amit Gupta is the real challenge. Go ahead, give G+, Facebook or your Tumblr a workout.

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JULY 2, 2012

At the time, Rufina was the CEO of Nasscom Foundation and transforming the nonprofit technology sector with her incredible networking, scaling, and capacity building skills. The teacher introduced me as a visitor from America and asked if there the children wanted to ask me any questions. How many beaches does America have?

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

Facilitated by Lucy Bernholz, the panelists discussed how data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models affect poor and working-class people in America. It learns over time your typical style of writing emails. While I have noticed it has saved me some time in my email box, it is a bit creepy. What you think?

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MAY 27, 2015

Code for America , one of the organizations that we worked with, is already implementing outcome assessments. Code for America tracks their impact on open governance ecosystems by monitoring a range of results, including the number of apps created by fellows that are sustained by municipal administrations.

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APRIL 16, 2012

With strong roots in prior national giving events and contests such as Twestival Local and America’s Giving Challenge , we wanted Twive to have the same fun spirit of those early ground-breaking giving events. Cities across America will compete to win their share of $30,000 in award money for a locally-serving nonprofit.

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JANUARY 17, 2018

Her book is based on traveling the country and visiting and interviewing dozens of social entrepreneurs who started nonprofits such as Teach for America, City Year, DonorsChoose, charity:water, and others. How to optimize the time, resources, and energy spent on fundraising? How do you measure that impact?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

And, while the hike was steep, it was not as steep as the Stanford Dish where I walk all the time, but at high altitude is was a workout. The scenery on the trek was some of the most breathtaking beautiful I have ever seen. That women is a member of Mr. Luis’s family, his wife and son.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The tool will pool the data from these three sources and do analysis of online giving habits in the US, practically in real time. I can not resist playing with online data mapping tools, so I gave America Gives a spin.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Encouraging nonprofits to embrace this mode of fundraising was the point of the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge , one of the first giving contests launched back in 2007 where I was a first place winner raising funds for Cambodian children. Giving Tuesday is also promoting many of the ideas in Giving 2.0

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MAY 20, 2014

Now that we’ve had some time to reflect, I am wondering about how the Sharing Economy will catalyze new forms of philanthropy and CSR? ” TechSoup’s Lewis Haidt shared a post that challenges to think about how we can all participate with a greater emphasis on the sharing and less on the IPO. Data Philanthropy.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

Earlier this week, I flew across the country (thanks Virgin America !) In my spare time, a video crew was following me around to create a short piece for Blackbaud Conference on October 20-21st in Washington, DC as part of the keynote to be delivered live by Allison. (I’ll It takes time and patience as Allison notes.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

to hear presentations about multi-channel campaigns , including the deck above from Rebecca Willett of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. This presents a wonderful opportunity because every time a donor interacts with your organization it is a chance to share another aspect of your story and reiterate the work they make possible.

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

Fortunately, we had a team of social media volunteers at a central location (our “command center”) at the Mall of America which made it easy to coordinate our response via email, blog, Facebook and Twitter. that evening, it was just in time for the after-work rush of donations. (That was one of the G-rated tweets.). million.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2008

But many other people across America won't have that luxury. According to the Food Research and Action Center , more than 36 million people lived in households in America struggling against hunger in 2007. Hunger isn't just a problem in America. Hunger isn't just a problem in America.

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

Not only is this unjust, it’s also a huge waste of potential with serious global consequences. Millions of girls are being denied an education right at a time when it has the power to transform their lives and the world around them.

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MARCH 21, 2010

I spent some time on the phone answering questions, referring resources, and later introduced her to colleagues. . I used the example of recommending a Michaela, relative newcomer to the nonprofit technology field at the time,for a SXSW panel. . to help promote awareness of homelessness in America.

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MARCH 28, 2009

Tveskov ( Photo from Lynn ) Manager, Community Impact Leadership United Way of America. Tveskov from the United Way of America letting me know that UWA has caught social networking spring fever! You only have so much time! At the same time, stress that you’re speaking as an individual.

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APRIL 8, 2014

What’s cool is that these efforts are not mutually exclusive, as the group experiments, documents, and shares what they’ve learn, these real-time lessons are being add to the Giving Day Playbook and share beyond Knight’s grantees. What’s the best way to recruit and train volunteers on a Giving Day?

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JULY 1, 2010

Enjoying a great view of Manhattan's skyline on the roof of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. (L One of Foursquare’s first badges was the “ gym rat “–awarded to users who check into a gym at least 10 times in 30 days. L to R) Charles Lenchner, Shelley Bernstein, Naveen Selvadurai, Farra Trompeter, and Thomas Negron.

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JANUARY 27, 2008

Roger Carr, Everyday Giving Blog , signed up to help me with a Bloggers Campaign part of the Sharing Foundation's Americas Giving Challenge , Today, I observed a twitter exchange from Angela to Roger. This still time to donate $10 (or more) to this important cause. I thought she might be referring to our campaign, so thanked her.

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MAY 9, 2013

My latest project is called @home , which explores homelessness in America through the story of Mark Horvath (aka @hardlynormal on Twitter). Our newest webisode features none-other-than Beth Kanter, a long-time friend and supporter of Mark Horvath’s digital movement to make homelessness visible.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

Since early December, the issue has been covered on over 60 nonprofit and philanthropy blogs, technology blogs and press, and news publications, including The New York Times , Huffington Post , The Guardian , Chronicle of Philanthropy , Nonprofit Quarterly , Cause Marketing Forum , and Foundation Center.

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JANUARY 15, 2009

Hunger is a serious issue in America, especially in these hard times. Share Our Strength is the leading national organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger in America. Photo by Joi No, I'm not talking about texting in your take out order. Bloggers have helped raised awareness of this important issue.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. In fact, they could follow his curation and pick items from that, thus saving time.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

This example from Teach for America is a photograph of handwritten thank you note from a student to an TFA alumni thanking them for making a difference. Here’s a great example from Teach for America sharing a funny visual about goofy year-book photos. Remember, engagement is not a quick fix and takes time and some thought.

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AUGUST 30, 2013

Note From Beth: Many of us don’t value taking the time for intentional learning within our organizations. In a much larger organization, you will likely need more time (assuming there is only one person conducting the interviews). What Wyman did: We conducted 50 interviews in an organization with 33 full time staff.

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JUNE 21, 2010

During the peak, it was ranked as the #1 nonprofit bestseller, #3 for general industries , #19 in the overall business segment , and # 108 overall in America ! Next time, I think it is important to have someone verbalize the questions to those who are on camera. We really appreciate everyone’s contributions to this success.

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JUNE 26, 2010

This was the first time I had participated in talk show style streaming event. It was more than a book promotion event – it was an opportunity to have an in-depth conversation with a peer (Peter) about social media. We also keynoted the Nonprofit 2.0 Conference. For me, the party was more a like a family reunion.

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

Here's what Stephanie Strom, New York Times reported: JPMorgan Chase & Company is coming under fire for the way it conducted an online contest to award millions of dollars to 100 charities. Any organization determined to be ineligible at any time will be disqualified.

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MARCH 17, 2017

We worked with a network of women’s rights NGOs located throughout Latin America and Guatemala who traveled to Antigua for the multi-day training. The challenge is getting people’s attention when time is up because the noise level goes up. It maximizes the opportunity for people to connect and be comfortable.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

That requires that organizations are able to spend as much time on the mission as possible. It also requires the ability to connect, to share, to communicate – in real time. We heard that from Africa, India and Latin America. And the cloud helps that.

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JANUARY 13, 2008

Meanwhile, I am so proud that he put the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge widget on his blog. If we are four of the top causes to get the most unique donors, we'll win $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation as part of America's Giving Challenge. He's working on his thesis and a little stressed. any advice to offer him?

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DECEMBER 4, 2012

Offline events included a young professionals networking “happy hour” at Rainforest Café in Mall of America and a live video “telethon” from Mall of America on which nonprofits and schools could introduce themselves and explain how funds raised that day would further their missions and work.

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