NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

I want to provide some updated findings for the entire year, as well as discuss the importance of online donations to support the Haiti earthquake relief efforts. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. This represented 77% of the organizations in the sample analysis.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

I want to provide some updated findings for the entire year, as well as discuss the importance of online donations to support the Haiti earthquake relief efforts. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. This represented 77% of the organizations in the sample analysis.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 15, 2010

When I posted about How to Help Haitian Earthquake Survivor s on Tuesday evening, there wasn't much information out yet about how to help, but now there are lots of posts and articles with lists of organizations you can donate to like: Helping Haiti. Her advice is: 1. give money, not things; 2. donate safely; 3.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

I’m joining a panel to talk about the response for support after the Haiti earthquakes last year. Examples from Haiti. Let’s look at a couple of the main examples from the Haiti earthquake response. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 31, 2010

Last week in my post, Keeping Your Balance While Helping Haiti , I suggested that you research organizations working in Haiti that you would like to support by donating, volunteering, or helping in some other way throughout 2010. Have you chosen a way to support an organization working in Haiti throughout 2010?

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2011

Check out our blog picks of the week. And feel free to tell us your favorite blog posts from this past week in the comments section. Share pictures – Facebook folks love pictures and it’s the perfect place to showcase the people who make the organization run or people that you impact. Goofy Face Friday).

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 6, 2012

I thought I'd share links to the blogs and/or organizations that came to the Changeblogger meetup in case you resonate with their work, and to give them a little link ? The blog covers social design and the Millennium Development Goals. The blog covers social design and the Millennium Development Goals.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2010

In the past 8 days, the surge of generosity for Haiti relief has been amazing. In less than a week, nonprofits using Convio systems have raised over $100 million through email appeals, websites and social media outreach and many other organizations are raising record amounts. Author: Jordan Viator.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

Crisis Camp DC participants work hard to develop applications and tools for relief workers in Haiti. Earlier this week, I introduced a series of blog posts discussing the Good News Story in Haiti. A Crisis Wiki to serve as "yellow pages" for folks supporting the relief efforts in Haiti. After the 7.0-magnitude

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2010

The images and stories coming out of Haiti are disturbing, upsetting, and unbelievably heartbreaking. Organizations are using social media to raise more money faster than ever before. Over the course of the next few weeks I'm planning to dig deeper into several of these successes and discuss them here on this blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

This session explores some of the ways individuals and organizations have used social media in crisis situations, like the earthquake in Haiti, and how various tools and platforms have developed to match the specific needs of rescue or service efforts. Related Links : Conference website.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 12, 2010

The people of Haiti are going to need a lot of help after today's 7.0 Below is a quick list of organizations asking for donations. I'm particularly interested in hearing about grassroots organizations. • You can follow their work on the American Red Cross Disaster Newsroom blog, and on Twitter at @RedCross. • earthquake.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Whether you lead a church, a temple, or another type of faith-based organization, fundraising is a recurring task on your to-do list. Peer-to-peer fundraising is one of the most popular fundraising methods for faith-based organizations. How Can Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Be Used For Faith-based Organizations? Let’s dive into how.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). JustGiving blog: Seven-year-old Charlie raises more than £100,000 for Haiti! As Charlie puts on his JG page, ‘at least 10 laps, I hope!’

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Design for People To Self Organize! You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

In January, after the Haiti Earthquake struck, if you were participating on social networks, you couldn’t help but notice the many, many Tweets and Facebook status messages about the Haiti Earthquake. And they expect a response from emergency and disaster response organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Source: National Arts Index It's at times like these -- in the midst of an extended recession and the wake of the tragedy in Haiti -- that the role of funding arts in society may be called into question. Write a review of a nonprofit arts organization, or - if you’re a nonprofit – invite reviews from your supporters at GreatNonprofits.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 22, 2010

Haiti mobile giving may spark surge in overall SMS contributions: "Manis, a former senior vice president at premium SMS aggregator m-Qube who left after it was acquired by VeriSign, said the huge spike in mobile giving after the Haiti earthquake represents a confluence of multiple factors. Organizations such as the Mobile.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2010

I wrote a blog post a few months ago about Fab Lab, a network of community-operated workshops springing up all over the world. Tags: Community Tech Centers Digital Divide Running Your Organization Spotlight. Also published on AshokaTech. Of course, to get the full effect of what's cool about Fab Lab, it's useful to take a step back.

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

CANADIAN WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION | Mobile Giving for Haiti Earthquake Relief Raises $500,000 in Canada: "Mobile Giving for Haiti Earthquake Relief Raises $500,000 in CanadaMobile Giving Foundation Canada Enables Leading National Non-Profit Organizations to Drive General Public Donations via Mobile PhonesOTTAWA, Feb.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

When it comes to fundraising, though, one of the areas of most interest is motivation – this can help fundraisers and organizations align their message and delivery with the points of interest and the channels that are the most influential to the target audience. Have you seen online donations increasing for your organization?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). "Oxfam is responding to the biggest earthquake for 200 years in Haiti.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 28, 2010

New technology tools help Haiti earthquake relief - NashuaTelegraph.com: "Volunteers have built and refined software for tracking missing people, mapping the disaster area and enabling urgent cell-phone text messaging. Organizations including the International Red Cross, the United Nations, the World Bank and the U.S.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons. A great example of crowdsourcing is Voluntweeters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

A big thank you conference organizers! We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). Many in the audience were colleagues that I have met through my blog over years and have helped me with Cambodian fundraising, like Roger Carr.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 6, 2010

If you're looking for ways to help the earthquake's survivors, the sites and blogs below have posted lists of relief organizations working in Chile: Chile's 8.8 blog Check each relief organizations' individual site for ways to support their work.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On January 12, 2010, I didn't personally experience the major earthquake that hit Haiti, but I was forever changed by it. We have a robust social media presence on all the sites you'd expect: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and our blog. Multiple organizations and systems were having trouble coordinating and sharing information.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

For my particular organization -- Mercy Corps, a large international relief and development agency -- that didn't seem like such a compelling prospect. So we used Facebook and Twitter to syndicate the stories and other content we published on our website -- particularly the Mercy Corps Blog, a new feature we launched last May.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Each organization received $25,000 and the announcement caused some controversy because of the contest eligibility rules and lack of a leaderboard. . The 100 organizations are now participating in the next round , "The Big Idea" where the 100 charities share their big idea for changing the world and get votes. For example.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

The competition we conducted as part of this panel surfaced a collection of case studies of organizations using social media in their program delivery. A process like this can ensure that lots of different ideas are included but that the competition can stay true to it’s purpose or the goals of the sponsoring organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Click to see larger version.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2010

One of the most recent examples I've seen that exemplifies this concept is from the organization Free The Kids that used its influencers earlier this year when the earthquake in Haiti struck. He used his megaphone to spread the message to his own followers about something he felt was a worthy and timely cause. By using a bit.ly

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Since 2009, Zynga.org has enabled millions of players to contribute nearly $20 million to more than 30 nonprofit organizations globally. In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City. Don’t miss this special offer for Beth’s Blog readers: Get 10% off tickets with the code beth_g4c14.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

"There's really no more rewarding work in the world than helping women and girls attain the highest possible quality of life." ~ Carinne Brody This month's Big Vision Podcast interview is special because it's part of the Girl Effect Blogging Campaign organized by Tara Sophia Mohr. Share Tweet.

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Care2

JANUARY 20, 2010

Care2's Jocelyn Harmon's wrote up a great list of six suggestions for Fundraising Success Magazine's blog on how nonprofits need to step up their marketing game in 2010. 5 Social Media Lessons From the Haiti Earthquake Relief Effort. To the Point: Get Ready to Rummage Time to toss what’s not working and make a new plan for 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2013

It takes us through why it is important for nonprofits to connect with Millennials based on a good synthesis of recent research and follows through with informative chapters that will help your nonprofit build a solid strategy for connecting with the connected generation in your organization’s communication’s strategy.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2010

There are also projects you can participate in online, to put your nptech skills to work for earthquake-devastated Haiti. Allyson Kapin writes up an article for the Care2 blog about the impact of mobile fundraising for the Red Cross (txt "Haiti" to 90999 to send $10!) Deadline to apply is Feb 19.

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