Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

For example, perhaps your idea for creating a nonprofit focused on raising funds for children fighting cancer started with one family’s need for support in a challenging time. Hold interviews. Is there a long-term need for your nonprofit, or could the issue be solved with a smaller-scale fundraising campaign or project?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Note from Beth: I was thrilled to be interviewed by Steve along with many other nonprofit data nerds, for his new book, Data Driven Nonprofits. He was kind enough to send me an advanced copy and it is definitely a must read. Along the way, I interviewed more than 20 nonprofit experts from a wide variety of organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by DaveFishernc Charity Balls, Dinner Dances, Black Tie Charity Events, and other parties where people donate money to a charity to have fun together are nothing new. From an article in the New York Times dated April, 1896 about the Hackensack Hospital's Charity Ball) . Charity Ball 2.0

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

This week they announced that registration is open for the two-day event, so check out the incredible speaker roster that includes General Colin Powell, Jose Antonio Vargas, David Rubenstein, Melody Barnes, and um, yeah, a 15 year-old named Jack Andraka whose invention could potentially revolutionize cancer screening.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

If you need help developing your character, review Bloomerang’s guide to conducting nonprofit interviews ! Charity Water does an excellent job with storytelling. This video focuses on the founder’s story, and thus, the origin story of Charity Water. It is important to tell the story as it was told to us. Watch below.

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Walk into a coffee shop in any size town, and you will see a bulletin board chock-a-block with posters for charity walks, runs, and similar events. The charity 5K and walk is so common that municipalities struggle to schedule parks and roadways for these events every weekend. The calls and requests for interviews started pouring in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote a reflection on a CNET article called "Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0," musing about the solution. You wouldn’t know it, but charity: water had very little Twitter presence before Twestival, compared to the way they use it now. Twestival Tweet Report reviewed by Tweetag.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

What if our child had cancer? As Parr points out, empathy is powerful because our innate ability and need to understand and connect with others – even we don’t know them personally. Parr spent over two years researching and interviewing people for this book. The more you show, the more your audience will understand.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Be clear about your goal for the meeting, whether that’s to learn the top 3 charities they support or what they think about your new program or something else. Try to make the conversation a conversation, not an interview. Once you make an appointment, it’s time to prepare and you definitely want to be ready!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better,” said Best in a 2014 interview in Fast Company. With $300 million in annual revenues, CustomInk is eager to extend its reach into the charity apparel space. They just didn’t have the resources.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

million charities in the United States alone and around 10 million worldwide. The American Cancer Society: When prospects explore ways to give on the ACS website, they see a clear statement about what they can expect for their donation. Your gift means we can continue to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Tell me about your project, The Generation Project The Generation Project is a new charity that seeks to revolutionize educational philanthropy by giving donors creative control over their gifts to kids in low-income communities. I am currently launching The Generation Project full-time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

for every hashtag mention to cancer charities. I ran into KK (Kris Krug) who is a free agent extraordinaire and did an interview I’ll publish later. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. Photo by KK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

I sat down for an interview to learn more about her work at Facebook and tips for nonprofits. We featured her as a guest on our Facebook Live program at WEF interviewed by New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof. In 2010, 35 year-old Gabe Canales was diagnosed with prostate cancer. What is your current job at Facebook?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

TechTalk public television show host Susan McKinnell interviewed Steven Clift about e-democracy including Issues Forums. Worlds Touch blog writes about a charity ball for geeks ! TechTalk is produced by the University of Minnesota and appears on a number of public television stations. RSS in Plain English and Uses For Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

It raised $3,500 in 15 hours. This campaign was a community-generated effort - spearheaded by Connie Reece and came from people who knew of Susan Reynolds fight with breast cancer and rallied behind her. Connie Reece shared some insights in this interview and you find more links to case studies and post campaign reflections here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

His interviewer interjects with a comment that ends with “It’s a really dire situation I think.” I wanted to turn this experience into something positive…so, basically, we released BlameDrewsCancer.com which allows you with a twitter hashtag, #blamedrewscancer , to blame anything you want on my cancer.” starts around 20:58).

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Whether you’re a humane society, a food bank, a veteran’s charity, a public health nonprofit, or any other kind of social good organization, this nonprofit calendar can help build your content plan for 2024. Here’s an example: September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month while October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Laura's Notebook has turned pink for the month of October to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month and so has Michelle Martin. Finding a cure for breast cancer takes more than virtual pink ribbons. For more on that topic, read the excellent interview with Carie Lewis of the HSUS here. and color schemes for your blog.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

And he’s quite revolutionary—what he’s figured out is that charity from multi-nationals goes to social service more than anything. If you get diagnosed with cancer you’re going home to look it up. Tags: interview Book Discussion: Civilizing the Museum inclusion. He’s invested in social service as an economic driver.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

Among the plethora of news stories on this, I recommend Der Spiegel’s frank interview with Berners-Lee. Charity Digital News in the UK just announced that the Digital Leaders 100 competition in the UK is now open to nominations. of charities or NGOs that are doing important digital inclusion projects. What the heck.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The charity got a $2,500 check the following week without any ask. It could be, you know, my mom had cancer that’s why I’m doing this volunteer work for the cancer organization. . So he wrote to the 30 charities they were giving saying, “I’m sorry, my wife just died. It takes time. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

This is yet another indication of the growing interest in the charity sector at SXSWi. Some people in the room were frustrated because the discussion focused on social media for charity and did not include social media for social change. Or should we simply just call fundraising and charity?

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