Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

I grew up in a small town by the New Jersey shore in a house a block from the Atlantic Ocean that my elderly parents still live in today. With Hurricane threatening a direct hit and potential devastating damage, emergency officials called for a mandatory evacuation — something that hasn’t happened in many years.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

funding from foundations, bilateral and multilateral donors, the U.S. In this blog post, we highlight a new section of the report, which offers specific, actionable takeaways for how donors can maximize their disaster-related giving. . Enable advocacy and community organizing efforts. In it, we examined?available?2019?data

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

What about Hurricane Sandy? The Giving USA Foundation , which estimates national charitable giving over a 50-year span, reports that campaign fundraising has historically had no apparent impact on overall individual giving. Are people going to give less because they donated to Hurricane Sandy relief? Is it the economy?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Elliot blogged about another one of the winners last week. As you may have noticed, we've been writing tooklits and guides , conducting webinars , and blogging about different ways to plan and prepare for disasters and emergencies over the past couple of weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Before the pandemic, Rhodri Davies, head of policy at Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), authored the 2019 white paper, “ Machine Made Goods: Charities, Philanthropy, and Artificial Intelligence ,” describing the opportunities. “If The future plan is to use this tool with other aid organizations and types of natural disasters such as wildfires.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 18, 2021

In short, we were caught in a hurricane of uncertainty. Organizations across the board had a drastic increase in first-time gift givers in 2020. If you’re a part of one of these organizations, I cannot stress enough how important it is that you steward them. Take this time to set your organization up for the long game.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

To adapt and thrive, says Solis, businesses and organizations must take a more profound and humanistic approach to transformation. His prescience was proved right when t he organizations that had worked on their digital communications pre-pandemic did more than survive; they thrived. Are you keeping up with your blog or e-newsletter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2013

This honed his appetite for frolicking in the hurricane swells that sweep the ocean in late summer. Who Connected You to the Ocean – a reflection from Surf Rider Foundation, CEO, Jim Moriarty. Donate to SurfRider Foundation: [link]. He made his reputation as a competitive swimmer and won many awards. Fundraising'

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BoardAssist

JULY 8, 2014

The best accounting software depends on many factors unique to each organization. For example, an organization that provides professional development to teachers can close a class when the room becomes full and wait list teachers in excess of capacity. Not surprisingly, the answer to “What is the best way to build a budget?”

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Due to a lack of major upfront expenses, fundraising online is one of the most profitable ways to raise money for your organization. And if you’re searching for fun and engaging ways to raise money, auctions and simple online events will get your donors excited to support your organization. Wishlist drives. Emergency campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2016

As I mentioned in my previous two blog posts about the GMN 2016 annual conference , we asked conference attendees to respond to the following question: Where are you on your journey to measuring outcomes and impact? Albert Ruesga, President & CEO of the Greater New Orleans Foundation—a customer of ours, I’m proud to say. “Be

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2017

For all the details on how to make this work for your nonprofit, read on below in this week’s guest blog post on text messaging. A recent study shows that, for every 1000 email subscribers, nonprofit organizations have 13 mobile subscribers. How Text Messaging Has Revolutionized Giving. Text-to-Give Case Studies.

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Candid

APRIL 9, 2024

Much of the non-governmental funding went to the Maui Strong Fund at the Hawai‘i Community Foundation (HCF), which received almost $188 million in donations (including earned interest) as of March 22. As far as we know, this is the highest amount ever raised by a single community foundation for a non-terrorism-related disaster.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. The information in our 2009 research comes from approximately 2,300 nonprofit organizations using a combination of our online fundraising, email marketing, and integrated CRM tools. This represented 77% of the organizations in the sample analysis.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. The information in our 2009 research comes from approximately 2,300 nonprofit organizations using a combination of our online fundraising, email marketing, and integrated CRM tools. This represented 77% of the organizations in the sample analysis.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Lisa Tacker and her team at Two Ten Footwear Foundation , a charitable foundation based near Boston, were scrambling. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? Or support an organization that does recycling. There was so much support for the idea, that he started an entire fundraising organization fueled by social media to support Jane Doe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

A number of nonprofit organizations are promoting Valentine's Day giving opportunities, here's a few: A Day for Hearts is an opportunity to raise awareness about congenital heart defects, a lethal constellation of birth defects of the heart that affect millions of newborn infants and children worldwide.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) You have a very, very interesting blog.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2018

million, while hurricane-related funding totals $480.6 Have you seen companies donating to organizations helping in this area of relief, or, even better, has your company offered a matching program towards this effort? But, when you examine disaster-related funding in the last five years, funding directed at wildfires is $13.1

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Organization(s) : The U.S. In one day, more than 20 students from 6 universities and five AIDS organizations hit the streets with only cellphone video cameras to produce 8 short video messages to encourage youth to be tested for HIV. Organization(s) : University of Auckland Clinical Trials Research Unit and Healthphone Solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I wish I had the capacity to write a blog post about each of these links below. I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. Steve Heye has been blogging chapters in the book for the past few weeks. Take your pick!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

Do you have a foundation background? Before GlobalGiving I spent a few years helping to build the Washington Area Women's Foundation - and that's when I started becoming a "student' of philanthropy. The US projects are an interesting mix - several in the gulf coast as a result of Hurricane Katrina.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

Michael Quinn Patton , an evaluation guru, visited the Packard Foundation yesterday. along with others on the Packard Foundation organizational effectiveness team. Michael Quinn Patton, an evaluation guru, visited the Packard Foundation yesterday. along with others on the Packard Foundation organizational effectiveness team.

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Care2

JANUARY 23, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Her idea is now a reality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I have the honor of working with a cluster of grantees working on children’s healthcare coverage on a networked capacity building project called “ Friending the Finish Line.” Source: Tweet4Ok Blog. Is your organization placing a small bet on promoted posts?

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