Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2020

According to this Fast Company article , another example, is a partnership between GiveDirectly and Google.org aims to smooth the process of disaster relief funds to the people who need them most urgently due natural disasters caused by climate change (recent wildfires, hurricanes, and tornados.).

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sgEngage

AUGUST 18, 2021

In short, we were caught in a hurricane of uncertainty. So, for the benefit of the entire industry looking to solve hunger across communities, cities, and nations, I present to you your guide for Foodbank Fundraising in 2021. Organizations across the board had a drastic increase in first-time gift givers in 2020. Data is great.

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See3

OCTOBER 29, 2007

In reaction to this desire, the main organs of Jewish philanthropy set up funds to help. New Orleans had problems long before the hurricane and the destruction only has exacerbated a long list of problems. But we all felt that in running a national service program we could not avoid addressing New Orleans.

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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. This is, in part, because September is National Preparedness Month.

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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. Support the only national sexual assault hotline. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. They originally wanted to organize a conference to convene social innovators and social entrepreneurs on the nonprofit tech cutting edge to see what everyone was doing. You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

The audience consisted of patient and professional patient advocacy organizations that were attending the ASCO meeting. She was one of the first patients to use video blogging through her nationally recognized YouTube channel to share her story and educate people about life with IBD. Carrie Martin Munk, The ALS Association.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2008

They have packaging network with a national headquarters and satellites in 14 states and Canada. The organization was founded by Richard Proudfit who was on a medical mission to Honduras after a hurricane ravaged the country. They do this by mobilizing children, teens, and adults volunteers who, package the meals.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

As the east coast continues cleaning up from Hurricane Sandy, those of us who have been in the industry a while can't help but reflect on what this means for the fundraising sector and think back to the lessons of Katrina. What portion of it may be attributed to the disaster-based fundraising? The impact is not only going to be offline.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2005

Wyclef Jean Brings Aid to Haiti with His Music Alfred de Montesquiou of the Associated Press wrote an article recently about how the hip-hop musician, Wyclef Jean, uses his music and his new aid organization, Yéle Haiti , to help deliver aid and food into some of the most dangerous areas of Haiti. Free Books for Kids!

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

In order to ground things a bit, we’re going to include an example of each type of lede from a hypothetical environmental organization sending a fundraising appeal on the topic of climate change. And we are bracing for yet another intense, potentially deadly hurricane season. Today is National Endangered Species Day.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2005

What is there one can say about not-for-profit organizations and the continuing crisis of Katrina that would be of some use to our readers? And numerous YMCAs all over the country have announced that all of their facilities are free to people displaced by the hurricane. But what can other organizations do?

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2005

Web-based social tools open up unimagined possibilities for our sector, nationally and internationally. A prime example is the Katrina PeopleFinder Project [link] an ad-hoc online collaboration of organizations and individuals to help locate loved ones in the hurricane-affected areas.'"

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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

JULY 12, 2009

Organization(s) : The U.S. Objective : Get the word out about National HIV Testing Day. 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.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They’ve been contributing to our blog, writing about donor acquisition, experts on both sides. So they got the whole nation covered, which is also cool. So you’ll be able to walk out of this with some action steps we hope that you can just go ahead and implement in your organization. We got connected last year.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

I mean, we’re used to hurricanes, tornadoes, you know, fires, wildfires. And also, last year, a lot of organizations were able to bring in new recurring donors for their organization. The bigger organizations, interestingly enough, those 25,000 plus, they saw smaller percentages of donors giving monthly.

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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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Care2

JUNE 29, 2009

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) Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005.

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