ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 17, 2011

Volunteers come in all shapes and sizes, and we in the nonprofit sector are thankful for their involvement any time we can get it. Some of these contradictory estimates by experts can be partially explained by different research methodologies, such as those discussed by Mark Hager in his recent blog, Really, how many people volunteer?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

A huge thanks to the small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle and published blog posts to share their reflections and thoughts. Vicki Rosenberg, Vice President Education, Communications and External Relations, Council of Michigan Foundations.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

All month long, we''ve been featuring curated content on the NTEN blog authored by NTEN Members, and Members are sharing thoughtful, sometimes funny, often touching appreciation for each other with the #ntenthanks hashtag. NeonCRM is offering three months of free service to NTEN Members that sign up for the first time before 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2009

Last week I was in Michigan to do a training for Chapter Leaders of EPIP. We were are all leaving Detroit at different times and the taxi to the airport wasn't exactly cheap. And, it didn't involve as much time and effort if EPIP went around and asked her person what time their flight was and then organize the groups for people.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2013

So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them! Raleigh, NC: Time to get social! Online: Part Two Google For Nonprofits Google Ad Grants with Net2 Northern Michigan. Check out the blog to keep on top of the gossip from our community. They’re the new Santa Claus, offering #nptech gifts year-round!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Pacific time. His best selling Accomplishing More in Less Time, Less Effort, and Less Stress workshop enables business professionals to better cope with information overload and competing priorities. Find him on Twitter at @pierrekhawand and on as a guest blogger on the TechSoup Blog. Find Kristy on Twitter at @kg.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2013

And now, in the past month, Michigan''s Attorney General and State Senate have blocked the emergency manager of Detroit from seizing the DIA''s collection to pay off the city''s debt. But this argument for the public value of the art is tough to uphold in a time of severe challenges.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan’s Giving Tuesday giving day donation page. Encourage them to give up that habit for a certain time (could be a month or even longer, like the entirety of Lent). You could challenge your congregants to climb a flight of stairs 20 times then donate to your church. Themed giving days.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2011

Guest blog alert: In my past life as a staffer for a Girl Scout of the USA affiliate, I met Suneil Singh, the then Chief Communications Officer for Girl Scouts of Southeastern Michigan (for those of you with limited Michigan geography like me, think Detroit). You know, the one you've heard countless times before.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2014

A modern marketing geek, crossfitter, Michigan State alum and tex-mex obsessed. Are they tweeting or yelping or blogging or reading magazines? Over time you will begin to see the variable that makes the most impact on your campaigns. Marketing Manager at Blackbaud – follow Clare @clareinatx. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 18, 2008

One of the things I've realized while doing the 29-Day Giving Challenge is that I "volunteer" a lot of free advice for organizations and individuals, but I haven't volunteered in my community for a long time. The United Way Capital Area posted a call on their blog for people to participate in their United Way Days of Caring on April 25th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2007

In a few weeks, the NP2020 will be bring together individuals from around the country to begin a discussion about leadership in the nonprofit sector at the Pew Campus of Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. So, this got me thinking about women who may in the early stages of their nonprofit careers and also blog.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 25, 2011

How many times have your constituents emailed you about forgetting their password? My newest pal at Convio, Natalie Cole*, sent me a link to this blog post. Michigan Humane Society has implemented this on their Convio sign-in page for their site. Author: Sally Heaven. creating a new profile.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2006

Another thing that's kept me away from blogging: we've been travelling to Lansing to work with our newest user, United Cerebral Palsy of Michigan. We've known Linda Potter, the executive director, for years - but this is the first time we've had an opportunity to work directly with her. So stay tuned!

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2007

It's been a quiet month on the blog -- because it has been anything but quiet here at Members Only Software. Last time I checked, that goal hadn't been quite reached yet, so I guess we'll be busy in 2008 as well. This is a great organization with the motto: Eliminating Racism, Empowering Women. We've also finished a pro-bono project.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2011

Voices from the Community is an ongoing series of blog posts culling. While some web developers may feel that meeting accessibility standards and offering assistive technologies to their staff or users is too large an effort , Rush holds that the time is right to take that very effort on. online community channels. and Ottowa.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan’s Giving Tuesday giving day donation page. Encourage them to give up that habit for a certain time (could be a month or even longer, like the entirety of Lent). You could challenge your congregants to climb a flight of stairs 20 times then donate to your church. Themed giving days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2007

times the number currently working the field. The conference will bring together individuals from around the country to begin a discussion about leadership in the nonprofit sector from July 26-28th at the Pew Campus of Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. What skills, resources, or support will they need?

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

To make things easier for your supporters, set up an online registration form where they can pay ahead of time. Sell the balloons at your event, and towards the end of the night, have people pop them at the same time to see what they’ve won. Check out this scavenger hunt hosted by Junior Achievement of the Michigan Great Lakes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Audience size, breadth, and depth: If your organization has big lists, lots of traffic to your website or blog or social media pages, or big crowds at events, there are many ways to turn this into a donor benefit. A dedicated blog post about the sponsorship. Donors could be featured in your email newsletter 1x or multiple times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Michigan for the chapter leaders of EPIP which stands for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy and again this week for the Bay Area Chapter. With my short time Scholar in Residence, I've been exposed to a gold mine of incredible thinking, discussions, and resources on topics related to my field.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2005

Of all the various kinds of non-profits we work with, I've thought that the YMCA's might profit most from the community-building benefits of a blog. But when I scan the net for YMCA blogs, I don't see a lot going on out there. While I had a hard time finding blogs posted by YMCAs, I had no trouble finding blogs that mention YMCAs.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

Around the same time, Marshall also posted an interview with Beth Kanter. If you don't read Beth's blog, well, you oughta. This week I discovered the blog of Ken Stein (no relation), a teacher in New York city. His blog explores technology, web, and usability issues as they apply to libraries. Well worth a read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. Funded a project to work with state of Michigan - requirement for high school graduation is that all students have an online learning experience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

This is the seventh post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. For examples of text-free avatars, see the United Way of Southwest Michigan and Amnesty International : Instagram Bios. Second, write a compelling Instagram bio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

A good point made based on research was: " Social networking Web sites are relevant to people at different times in their lives." from Michigan State who is doing research on how younger people are using social networks. Work with them to create a framework for measuring the ROI of your blogging efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

Is this how Npower Michigan is using delicious ? Internal Organizational Collaboration/Resource Sharing - within the walls of one organization that different offices locations and/or distributed staff or volunteers in terms of time or location. Throwing seeds out? Marnie's posts on tagging.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2005

Then I did a general search for YMCA and Katrina and found that: the YMCA of Houston is housing evacuees, and the YMCA of Ann Arbor Michigan is collecting gift cards from national chains and sending them down to the Houston Y.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 27, 2006

This holiday season the Mission Merchant's Association has designated December 4-6 as a time to Shop Local First in the Mission, and created a map and discount coupon that you can download and take with you as you shop. I wrote the post below for them, but thought I'd post it here too 'cause Shop Local First Week is a national program.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 5, 2022

Make sure to tune in early and catch Cloud for Good’s Pre-Keynote Commercial featuring some of our incredible customers, like Harvard Radcliffe, Indiana University Foundation and Alumni Association, Western Michigan University, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The Summit Awards.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 24, 2024

At the same time, employees began expressing reservations about the use of AI in the HR context; for example, 71% oppose the use of AI to make hiring decisions, and 41% are worried about AI reviewing job applications. In the summer of 2023, jobs that offered remote work received three times more applications than jobs that didn’t.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

I grew up just outside of Detroit Michigan, daughter of a police officer and nurse. During that time, I discovered this group of English majors who had started their own Internet Company. Time management becomes quite the problem when you have 2 different worlds to keep track of. How did you end up working in a virtual world?

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In that same time frame, Sites went on to say that PayPal alone has been utilized nearly a hundred times for online gifts. We’ve had around 4,000 new accounts created in a short amount of time. Clearly, these improvements are working, and once we start pumping the content and campaigning…the sky’s the limit.”

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2016

The most effective dashboard solutions are intuitive and visually dynamic; they present an accessible real-time look into a range of metrics. By implementing a powerful customized dashboard solution, UWMD was able to transform its reporting so that its board now receives timely information in an easy-to-understand format.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

m a product of the Great Lakes and have a degree in technical writing from Michigan Technological University. Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. sites were the right way to grow our constituency and awareness online that I dedicated a lot of personal time to pursuing them both before- and after-hours.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

What is being blogged about in social media tied to your mission? As with any translation, there's room for error, which is why render testing is vital and potentially time-consuming. What subject lines get opens, and how do these look compared to industry benchmarks? What content in your emails is being clicked on? .

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Because it was my first time meeting the students, part of the half hour was spent getting to know each other. Today, 826 has chapters in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Michigan, and Boston. Tuesday was my first day volunteering with the "reading partners" program at my neighborhood public elementary school.

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