Connection Cafe

JULY 6, 2016

This blog is the third in a three part series that will focus on the tools you need in order to build a comprehensive grants seeking program. Build in several collaborative partnerships: Farmers Market, school district, etc. Collaboration is no longer an option for grantseekers – it is now a necessity. Grants are hard work.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 24, 2012

She is guest blogging for TechSoup on the current. So, clearly, education-focused nonprofits are pursuing and being awarded private funding from both foundations and corporate giving programs, and may be starting to secure more private funds then institutions. Learn more and request yours today ! grantseeking and fundraising.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

In the past, more than 20 grants have been awarded for each challenge. The foundation wants to get a short summary of what you propose to do, what you've done so far, a bit about yourself and your organization, and the outcomes you're working toward. Find more information at: The Knight Foundation Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. I hope you’ll also vote for my panel proposal, Nonprofits and Free Agents in A Networked World and while you’re there vote for the other awesome nonprofit panel proposals (I’ve shared a list below). Crowdsourcing the Corporate/ Nonprofit Partnership.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2016

In this npENGAGE blog series, top Big Idea presenters recap the topics they presented on so you can use their insight to build your next Big Idea. Nonprofits are preoccupied with writing what the funder wants to read or hear, and foundations are compliant with proposal templates that change little over years or even decades.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

A volunteer network of software developers, designers, and other collaborators have teamed up with the award-winning blog techPresident to launch Twitter Vote Report.     Twitter Vote Report was inspired by a techPresident blog post on October 6th proposing the use of Twitter for election monitoring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Gregg Swanson from HumaniNet picks out a few projects that are based on collaboration/partnership and a track of record of doing projects like the one proposed. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

So, I design all of our in-house print and web-content, including proposals, email templates, social media posts, logos, invites, everything. I also read up on a lot of web design blogs, which explain the things you might already be seeing but help identify what’s working and what’s not. Webby Awards. Smashing Magazine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

I did a roundup of nonprofit panel proposals a few weeks back and wanted to give you an updated list. At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. It was organized by Ed Schipul. Submitted by David Neff.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Through hurricanes, fires, floods, the pandemic, and more, Two Ten awards millions of dollars in emergency relief each year, and they rely 100% on donor dollars to do it. McKnight used to require two application steps: a letter of inquiry, followed by a full proposal.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. Butterfield was speaking from the floor about the proposed energy bill on the hill. They accepted questions via Twitter and then had an expert reply via the White House blog.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

We awarded $5000 to each exhibit design that was translated to real life. Doing so meant we could raise awareness very quickly (because everyone loves to blog about a contest), which was useful given the short time frame. However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

And, you can use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, to support engaging crowds to participate in the activity. The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal. 1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

He did and gave me permission to blog! He went on to say something that made me pause for a minute: The user behavior on my blog is quite different. " And I'd add blogs, twitter, flickr, tagging, and all the other social media tools and strategies to the list too. Unique Blog Readers (content consumption ???

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

anniversary celebrates British physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal for creating the World Wide Web in 1989. NPTech Contests and Awards. DoGooder Video Award Winners. Recipients of the Eighth Annual DoGooder Video Awards were announced this month at the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Washington, D.C.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. A pricing manifesto proposes that members of the community that can afford the software should support the project financially. I'm looking forward to reporting on the latest from Route 66 Literacy on my blog and in future updates.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2007

YPAC is an umbrella group formed by the Forum for Youth Investment , Mobilize.org and a few organizations who won Capitol Advantages Youth Civic Engagement Award in 2004. Given the collaborative nature of YPAC, I suppose I shouldnt have been surprised that Thaddeus was game. At the heart of the collaboration is cross promotion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2018

The book was created by Shareable , an award-winning nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the “ Sharing Cities Movement.” ” The way the book was produced also embraces the idea of sharing through collaboratively publishing with a team from nine countries to crowd source the book proposal and write the book.

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