Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Organization: Taproot Foundation. Blog: taprootfoundation.org/blog. LinkedIn: taproot-foundation. Dupe: I love our blog – I has surprisingly become one of the strongest presence on our website. We also have an External Affairs Visita Volunteer who manages our blog space. Jumo: [link].

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Candid

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Once the preserve of large foundations and mega-donors, impact investing is growing in popularity, including among women and younger generations. Of course, whether we’re writing checks to local charities, endowing a scholarship at our alma mater, or establishing a family foundation, we’re investing for impact. In 2023 alone, U.S.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

When a door closes, a window opens… at least that’s how it seemed to the BHcare Foundation team! BHcare Foundation provides a comprehensive and integrated system of care for adults, children, and families who are struggling with mental health issues, substance use issues, or domestic violence. Reinventing Volunteer Opportunities.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 1, 2023

Blogging can be a unique and powerful way for nonprofit organizations to connect with their audience. However, with so many blogs out there (let alone all the other media your audiences see every day), it can be difficult to stand out from the crowd. But those basics only set the foundation of your blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 15, 2011

When I give talks about nonprofit blogging, I often use the Case Foundation's blog as an example of a juicy blog. Icons for their RSS feed, Twitter feed, Facebook page, and newsletter are featured at the top of the blog. • It has a blog roll. What nonprofit blogs do you loooooove to read?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In our report, Unlocking Generosity with Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Giving ( ai4giving ), Allison Fine and I identified examples of where the algorithms and data are used to provide recommendations for philanthropic investment – whether everyday donors, program officers, or major donors. Source: GiveDirectly Facebook Page.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

From creating a financial cushion to clearly managing your financial reporting, your finance team can create a strong foundation to help you weather whatever the new year has in store. Here are seven ways your team can make sure your nonprofit has a strong financial foundation this year.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In service of this, in this blog, we’re highlighting five things we’ve heard about our grants data that aren’t quite accurate. foundations (e.g. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , Ford Foundation , and Hewlett Foundation ) share such data with Candid. based foundations. Many of the largest U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is the eighth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. For example, Plan International’s website : 2) Post 2-3 times weekly to your LinkedIn Page and respond to your followers. For example: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 20, 2020

She’s worked with Movember, Dress for Success, USTA, American Idol, The Gary Sinise Foundation, Hashtag Lunchbag, and many more. . For the example below, we’ll be building out a sample Facebook Live co-branded series. For example, if you’d like to see 10,000 views on each video. Are you ready to innovate? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Nonprofit technology professionals know how to converts laughs to donations and devoted an entire session to sharing tips, techniques, and examples during a NTEN conference. Bruce Wayne of the Wayne Family Foundation. Nonprofit Humor Blog chronicles funny (fictional) stories about nonprofits.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2024

It is that example of rising to the occasion and people coming together that has helped shape my ardent belief in our collective power and what guides us at the Ms. Foundation. Foundation, we trust those who are closest to the issues affecting their communities. There is intentionality in all that the Ms.

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2023

Read this blog to learn more about how these nonprofits are addressing the issues facing workers today by filling gaps left by traditional labor unions , and find out what Candid’s data says about philanthropic support for this growing movement. Take the manufacturing industry, for example. Foundation funding for workers’ rights i.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In this blog, we share tips on how to take your marketing to the next level with the help of analytics. In addition to the tools, a very important piece of successful marketing is Taxonomy & Metadata – the foundation of your marketing. You can learn more about content tagging and taxonomy in this blog.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Glasspockets.org is a website sponsored by the Foundation Center that is focused on transparency among funders. foundations still don’t have websites, quite possibly intentionally. The objectives of the Glasspockets project are actually pretty simple: Inspire private foundations to greater openness in their communications.

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Candid

JULY 18, 2023

As the saying goes, “Money talks,” and there’s no better example of this than the Giving Pledge and its effect on the social sector. Case in point: Through the Gates Foundation , Bill and Melinda Gates have such outsized effect on philanthropy in the U.S. That’s potentially a lot of philanthropy.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2020

You may think this is an odd beginning for a public policy blog, so please bear with me. I would like to highlight two examples of federal policy making from late December 2019 to illustrate this point: Unrelated Business Income Tax. Private Foundation Excise Tax.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a meeting organized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation called “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations.” Our foundation is viewed a valuable information source. Our foundation is viewed as transparent. Elizabeth R.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2021

That copy can take lots of forms—you can include a call for recurring gifts at the top of your donation page, for example, or you can use design to draw attention to your recurring options. If you’re looking for ideas about how to use online fundraising tools to support your events, check out these real-life examples: Girls, Inc.

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2024

This stable foundation helps you to ensure your new fundraising CRM supports you in meeting your objectives but also matches the needs of your stakeholders and community. #2 This could include, for example, being able to streamline data management processes and making them less time-consuming. #2 Get your copy here. Get your copy here.

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Association Analytics

MAY 20, 2024

A prime example is a credit card transaction company’s “Fees Begone” program, which helps associations alleviate members’ pain points around credit card fees while generating revenue through royalty sharing. These conversations provide a solid foundation to help as you begin pricing discussions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Plain Language Example #1 . Plain Language Example #2. Annual reports are too infrequent and written for foundations and major donors, thus not ideal for reporting impact to small and mid-size donors. For example: yourwebsite.org/impact. Feature your landing page on the right bar of your blog. Email #1 ?

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Candid

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In the previous blog of this two-part series, we introduced our jillionaire friend, Bob, and his love of animals in his hometown to help illustrate what DAFs are all about. For example, consider adding a place on your marketing or solicitation materials for a donor to indicate whether they are giving through a DAF. to track down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Note from Beth: Yesterday, I was the honored guest at a Google Hangout hosted by the Packard Foundation to celebrate the work that I have done over the last five years as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. It was wonderful to see colleagues in the room and online, reflect on the work, and talk about next steps.

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Candid

MAY 1, 2024

With the combined resources of Foundation Center and GuideStar, we at Candid have a unique opportunity to build the most effective solution for providing information for and about nonprofits and funders. For example, we heard that funders want more information about fiscally sponsored organizations and their sponsors.

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Candid

MARCH 26, 2024

Individual donors and foundations increasingly view data “ as the fuel for innovation and social change.” For example, aggregated data from the U.S. In November 2023, we received a grant from the Capital One Foundation to support our housing and financial empowerment programming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The Foundation Center released a report that documents the usage of social media tools by foundation executives based on survey responses from 73 members of the Center’s Grantmaker Leadership Panel. My blog was named on the list with 11% respondents indicating they have read it in the past six months).

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Candid

AUGUST 9, 2023

For example, Sarah Wiley, a DBA candidate at the University of Missouri, St. Another example is the work of Brad Fulton, associate professor in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. The post Candid Data for Academics: Go back to school with better data appeared first on Candid Blog.

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Candid

MAY 20, 2024

Foundation for Women’s report, Pocket Change: How Women and Girls of Color Do More with Less , as of 2017, the median foundation grant awarded to “organizations by and for women and girls of color” was $15,000. Women of color comprised 20.3% of the United States population in 2021, an increase from 18.4% According to the Ms.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Let me give you an example. You can use the data to identify the channel donors came through, for example, or get a sense of which campaigns and messages are performing best. Example: utm_source=facebook. For example, I might have a medium of “cpc” for all my paid ads on Facebook and LinkedIn, standing for cost-per-click.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

New Research and a Welcome Surprise from Foundation CEOs. How much promise do the following practices hold for increasing foundations’ impact in the coming decades?” This question was one of many in a recently released research study commissioned by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation on the occasion of its 50 th anniversary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I’ve been experimenting with a lot of models for workshop delivery and curriculum for social media. This workshop, graciously hosted by the Community Foundation of Monterey County with support from the Packard Foundation, was a two-part session.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Still, understanding your audience is the foundation of all other design strategies and directly influences the success or failure of a website. It’s important to understand both the tasks that someone needs to do on a site—for example, donate, find resources—and the mindset they are in when visiting your site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2009

What are Foundations Tweeting? About three weeks ago, the 411 Philanthropy Blog created a mega list of 90 Foundations that Tweet (and it is still growing.) Share history ( Detroit Foundation ). Talk vision and mission ( Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ). Recruit job candidates ( MacArthur Foundation ) .

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Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In this blog, we explore what to do when you get a rejection to a grant proposal and share questions you should ask the funder if your grant proposal isn’t selected. If you don’t, you can search Candid’s Foundation Directory to find who to contact, or you can reach out via a contact email from their website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Expect more blog posts and thoughts about how to design and facilitate these types of projects in the future – for starters I’ll be moderating and presenting on a breakout session at the Communications Network Conference in October with colleagues Farra Trompeter, Eva Penar, and Michael Hoffman).

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

For example, you will generate quite a different set of responses if you ask for information on “education” rather than “STEM education.” Exposure to diverse cultural perspectives promotes tolerance and broadens their outlook, contributing to a well-rounded and resilient foundation for personal and intellectual growth.

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