Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2012

All this adds up to the why it is even more important to pay attention to Crowdsourcing platforms, social media, and rating sites can serve as useful feedback channels for nonprofits. We know that when low-income families can access other people’s consumer feedback it is both extremely useful and a source of empowerment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2011

Just like any real world activist, motivation is triggered by empowerment and shut down with arrogance. FF acknowleges your hard working free agents, and you can use it to show influencers that you are courting, you know they are tweeting and you are paying attention. Pay attention to what is working in the community.

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Care2

OCTOBER 8, 2012

3 steps for engaging in "empowerment marketing," including identifying your organizational values, telling the truth and being interesting. In this webinar you will learn: What the story wars are and why you need to join the fray! The 5 deadly sins of marketing and how to avoid them. How to create your own Story Strategy Map.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Grant makers and nonprofit professionals are now talking openly about some very painful (and inter-related) issues in philanthropy, such as. You Can’t Lift People Up by Putting Them Down’: How to Talk About Tough Issues of Race, Poverty, and More. As Foundations Reimagine Themselves, They Should Give Attention to DEI in Operations.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

World leaders and technology firms should be paying attention to their solutions—and backing them up. A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. The future of our world depends on it.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

TechSoup is participating by amplifying what other agencies, collaborators, and libraries in our network are doing to raise awareness on this important issue. Even if your organization isn't involved in this issue, these organizations' work offer great examples of how a theme month or day can bring attention to your mission.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

If you give them tools for taking more control of their lives, they will pay you back in attention, support and even hard cash. Empowerment is unconditional. Be specific, define the issue, problem or idea, and let the answers pour in. Getting people’s attention means offering them something valuable. People want control.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

The shutter snappers at Keshet Dance Company based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico caught our judges' attention with their powerful slideshow titled "unlimited possibilities through dance," snapping up the first place prizes for best photo story. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts." " First Place Photo.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Here are just a few of the many examples of how the humble mobile is being used for development: For those nonprofits working on agricultural issues - The Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (Kace) , provides crop growers with the very latest commodity information via SMS and has helped farmers to quadruple earnings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

You can explain complex issues like cap and trade in 140 characters. Policymakers do not pay attention to messaging that comes through social media channels. I used the following statements given that I had a mix of staff members – from executive directors, social media managers, and policy/program directors.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

As time has gone on, my attention has shifted from the tactic of participation to the outcome of building community. HOW (slides 24-42) There are three “tracks” to our theory of change: individual empowerment, social bonding, and social bridging. Let’s start with empowerment. More and more families showed up. And so on.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

engagejoe : Hmm…What about ‘using webby tools 2 organize ppl for impact on an array of issues, w/the goal of creating real world change?’ realize_ink : Q3: empowerment & ownership. challenge 2 coordinate w/other movement builders working on same issue. engagejoe : w/online campaigning, seems a (natural?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

CUAV's blog eventually drew media attention to the trial when the blog was covered by the news. Also, if you are writing about the same topics repeatedly on your blog, when a reporter is searching online for an expert on your issue, your posts may come up at the top of their search results.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. Ambitious, multi-layered projects like this have the issue of being hard to fund. CLIMBING SACRED MOUNTAIN.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Given the quantity of organizations, and the enormity of the issues we're faced with today, five qualities are important when designing an action: 1. Many people feel like they can't change issues like the genocide in Darfur, they feel too big. In a time when our world's challenges can feel overwhelming, and there are 1.4

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. Day 4: Action Learning Projects, Communicating After Workshop, and Managing Our Attention. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot. Day 2: Integrated Social Media Strategy.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" Most of these youth have bigger issues on their minds: addiction, gang violence, social anxiety, the possibility that they may not graduate from high school or get a good job. They are fickle.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety. From the elite to the grassroots, gaps between women and men, girls and boys are set to widen.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2008

The recent book, Just Another Emperor, is getting a lot of attention in philanthropic circles these days. It does not say that market forces will solve all social issues: they will not and cannot. Note what this critique does not say. It does not say that social enterprise is not a vital part of social sector reform: it absolutely is.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I felt an emptiness inside, as a woman, that I wasn't hearing from the teachers that I wanted to about world issues. A lot of attention on team, it's probably the hardest thing because you have to keep getting out of your own way. We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. 10×10 :: @ 10x10Act.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

There's a long fight ahead, but for issues that stir you, one simple, positive thing you can do today is give - your time, money, voice, or attention - because so many organizations need your urgent support. The last few days have been equal parts terrifying, challenging, and complicated. LGBTQ Rights. Immigration & Refugees.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

I realized I had a platform where, for whatever reason, people would pay attention to me. It could be the environment, it could be educational issues, political issues, international, national. I came up with the slogan, "Off the Mat, Into the World," and put that on a T-shirt, which I sold to benefit YouthAIDS.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. There are no men in Zimbabwe who are immune to these girls' attention. I read hundreds of grantee profiles, and tried to balance the book according to the issues and the geographies that I wanted.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

To me, that sort of sums up something very special about the way in which we try to make these resources accessible to women-led initiatives that are often some of the most creative that we are seeing on issues ranging from the environment, to health, to education, to building peace and sustainable communities around the world.

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