AFP Blog

MARCH 11, 2013

Cancer Research UK creates data game to find cancer cure | Charity Digital News : Cancer Research UK has teamed with Facebook, Google, Amazon and the Citizen Science Alliance to deliver a game for smartphones which aims to involve the public in finding a cure for cancer.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It's high time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! This time I’ll review some new developments in privacy and security, social media, cloud computing, digital inclusion, gaming for good, and the new tech blog, Re/code. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month. and Android.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A weekly update with the latest news from PND. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) in New York City has announced a $50 million gift from Mike and Maria Repole and the Nonna's Garden Foundation to establish a research and patient care initiative. Climate finance partnership to fund community-led forest conservation.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! If you’re a nonprofit news junkie, have a look at all our Nonprofit Technology News pieces from this past year. The project is soft launching this month, and going public in March 2014. Hacker Helper.

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

Before joining the Ford Foundation, McGruder served as COO of New York Public Radio (NYPR), where she led daily operations and strategic planning for WNYC Radio, WNYC Studios, WQXR, Gothamist.com, and The Greene Space. With M.O.B.B.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

The public health advice is to social distance, but we also need to mental distance from news and discussion about the virus. You simply can’t obsess about every news report or the worst possible outcomes. I put myself on a news diet by only consuming one-hour of news a day to be informed enough to keep my family safe.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 27, 2021

Where they consume their news. Again, its important to learn where your ideal consumer gets their news, spends their time. For example, take the American Cancer Society. Madison Gonzalez is a National Public Speaker, Storyteller of the Year Award-Winner, Best-Selling Author of Dear Mirror, Events Manager, and Published Poet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The public counts on nonprofit organizations to champion important issues and bring about positive change. The title “Help Us Cure Breast Cancer!” Share any news related to the nonprofit. By Paige Kutliek , SEO Manager at GoFundMe ––a free fundraising platform for charities, people, and the causes you care about.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

So how do you make the fact that you’re doing a 5K or walk into news that’s going to get reported? The fact that you’re doing a 5K for a worthwhile cause by itself is not news. The world of journalism and news publishing is changing rapidly. Write your posts like a news story. Photos that help tell your story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

National Public Radio(NPR) Shop. NPR creates and distributes award-winning news,information, and music programming to a network of 959 independent stations. Public Broadcasting System (PBS) Online Shop. Jude’s mission is to find cures for children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases through research and treatment.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

A winning strategy for spreading the word about your organization’s work is getting your nonprofit’s story in the news. . A news story gets your organization in front of a large audience of potential supporters and gives your organization instant credibility. . And, getting your story in the news still carries a lot of weight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Komen Foundation , a leading breast cancer charity, pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars in breast cancer screening funds from Planned Parenthood. Each year millions of women are screened for breast cancer at Planned Parenthood, and Susan G. Source: causes.com via Beth on Pinterest. On Tuesday, the Susan G.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

Public ideas about health are changing rapidly as a result of technology, medical research, and preventive and wellness services. For example, My Special Aflac Duck is a social robot that helps kids cope with cancer. Surprisingly, that can be good news for a company’s nonprofit partners. Take CVS Health.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. The public demands it, and because of it, governments are responding. .

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

What started as a small fundraiser for cancer research has now raised over $3 billion for social and environmental causes—and we feel like we’re just getting started. . First, Classy is officially changing from a C-Corporation to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC).

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Candid

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Based on the data we were able to collect from news sources, funder websites, and from funders directly , we issued two reports with our partners at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy to help the sector make sense of its collective response. At Candid, we’ve been tracking philanthropy’s response.

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Care2

MARCH 20, 2013

What do news organizations like CNN and health advocacy organizations like the Susan G. This is a significant failure on their part and is one of the key concepts discussed in the new book Social Change Anytime Everywhere that I co-wrote with Amy Sample Ward. Komen Foundation have in common? Three Tips to Operate Across Mulitchannels.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Double-certified neurologist and preventive medicine specialist with a background in public health, working toward the transition to replace the use of animal experimentation with superior human-based testing methods. Previously served as CEO of The Seany Foundation, a pediatric cancer foundation. Aysha Akhtar, M.D., President and CEO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The good news is that there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to organizational culture. His views on the philanthropic world have appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , USA Today , The Los Angeles Times , and on National Public Radio. They were all using a mix of technology, skills, and strategies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

A public search has a way of getting in front of new eyes, thus new donors and sponsors. birthday campaigns ( Facebook Fundraisers ), and for timely, news-driven events (Black Lives Matter). For example, the American Cancer Society on GoFundMe Charity : 7) Sign up for Facebook & Instagram Charitable Giving Tools.

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Achieve

JUNE 7, 2015

The Fashion Project partnered with another organization called “Look Good Feel Better,” helping women with cancer feel good about themselves as they go through the treatment process. uses news and film to activate people for causes. The images below are from their campaign. You audience can tell when you are using stock photography.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 27, 2017

There’s a lot of talk about the ways nonprofits can use Facebook to raise money — live streaming fundraising events, breaking news, impact stories, and more, directly from their Facebook Page. We decided to break the news ourselves via Facebook. Just to think it all started with an attempt to live stream our own news.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2015

Breaking news: press releases are a gold mine. You should use these to garner publicity in advance of your events, as well as coverage on gameday. You should use these to garner publicity in advance of your events, as well as coverage on gameday. The first goal of a press release is to let the public know about your event.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2016

A public relations firm may offer a nonprofit discount, but with the assumption that they’ll get to rub noses with other high-profile supporters at your annual gala. Does he have a personal connection to cancer or diabetes that would help him write compelling fundraising appeals? These aren’t reasons not to work with a vendor.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

While the primary focus of their project was short-term forecasting of crime risk, ACS Alchemist is a great, user-friendly, free-to-the-public tool for anyone interested in analyzing complex Census data. Socio-economic variables can be extracted from the ACS directly into a Shapefile for mapping or other forms of analysis and modeling.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed. Find out how to increase engagement on Facebook by using the new pinned post feature on your timeline. TechSoup's Social Media Resources. NetSquared.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2008

Each blogger will lead an online community focusing on a different social, political, or environmental issue, maintain a daily blog covering news and offering commentary, convene leading nonprofits and activists working on the issue, and help people translate their interests and passions into concrete action. Positions are part-time and paid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

   In an email interview, Laura Zaks, Public Affairs Coordinator, shared with me this sad story of devastation and the urgent need for funds to help PROFAMIL resume services through a temporary static clinic and Mobile Health Units to deliver services in tent cities where displaced persons have gathered.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Quite frankly, ALS is not a very wide spread disease like cancer or heart disease. Nothing I’ve written here is new knowledge, so just don’t forget those things that work and are truisms. Use phrases like “this just in…” or “latest breaking news…” to keep followers returning for new information. • Tag, tag, tag!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are even more blog posts, articles, and event recaps to get you started: Facebook uses an algorithm called EdgeRank to determine the makeup of each user's news feed. Find out how to increase engagement on Facebook by using the new pinned post feature on your timeline. TechSoup's Social Media Resources. NetSquared.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2015

Finding new donors costs more than keeping the ones you have and by stewarding, engaging and staying in touch with supporters you CAN grow your pipeline of support through gift upgrades and giving diversification (ie: that sustainer donor is a great prospect for an estate gift). Develop awesome content.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

As an added bonus, Twitter's trending topics are often monitored by local news media outlets. Increasing your event's visibility in Twitter can spill over into increased publicity in traditional media. Check us out on the 5pm News! She’s proudly wearing her “kick cancer’s butt” shirt.”

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2015

The best news is that good is all over the place, showing up in so many forms. It’s in academic research, uncovering new advancements that will help human kind. It’s in government (yep, I said it), working to serve the public. It’s a place that believes in good and helping good take over.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. There’s even some strange philanthropy news compliments of former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Disclaimer Friday, April 1, 2011 Research Friday: Why Do People Stop Giving? Central Ave.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Subject To Change is written by a recent Yale alum, Vanessa Mason, who is just starting out a career in public health. The Stupid Cancer Blog is written by Matthew Zachary who founded the social enterprise I'm Too Young for This." Change.Org is covering news about social change on its site. Amanda Hanley is the editor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

ANN CURRY | Today Show News Anchor | @AnnCurry. The quotes below are taken from a New York Observer story about an incredibly interesting panel that included Ann Curry, Robert Scoble, and other journalists from CNN, FOX and NBC in a discussion about the evolution of journalism in the context of Twitter and social media. CHRISTOPHER R.

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