Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Living Case Studies: Social Media and Sustainable Agriculture. As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m designing and delivering peer training sessions for grantees all around the theme of social media, learning, and measurement. Living Case Study.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 19, 2014

These are essentials they’ll have to be aware of before committing to working with your organization. If there’s nothing separating you and another local nonprofit, chances are they’ll go with the group that comes off as more fun to work with. Next is the pitch. Think of this as a first date. A little human flare goes a long way.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Epic Change is no different. ToMamaWithLove (TMWL) is no exception – but, as Stacey Monk, CEO of Epic Change, reflects, "It's a much different medium than it used to be.". Focused engagement, with direct messages, replies, and retweets required a different process and purpose than broadcast messages. How did it go?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

“Very few of us ever learned how to be present with another person, to ignore internal and external noise and distractions, and to connect and converse with others in useful or collaborative ways,” affirm the authors of the new book, Bridge The Gap: Breakthrough Communication Tools To Transform Work Relationships From Challenging To Collaborative.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

All of the words probably have different meanings to each of us, but as a term, I mean programming, services, media events or campaigns that emerge from the needs, actions and involvement of the community. But, it’s just to say that you are in it just like the community is, and not everything we try in life works smoothly.

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Blue Fox

JUNE 18, 2023

We forget that our work enables our clients to maximize their impact. This client case study proves it! They work to improve and make more equitable the planet we call home. The trip was the perfect opportunity to be reminded how our accounting work makes a difference. Queue the goosebumps.

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NTEN

JUNE 16, 2011

AVP still relies on volunteers for a number of tasks—as many as 125 different volunteers each year, half of them new. There’s so many different categories of things, I feel something will appeal to everyone, and that’s contributed to our success.” We’re trying to use all different methods,” she said. “We

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 19, 2014

According to Case, Millennials don’t just want to work for companies that do good things. They want to work with organizations that empower them to make the impact on the community that they desire. Millennials do not see their life segmented into different parts the way previous generations did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play – guest post by Meghan Ventura. She previously worked with the Washington, D.C., She’s worked as a writer and editor, with experience covering video games, and scientific and environmental topics. You can register here. Around Gender.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

While both approaches have value for specific purposes at particular points in time, numbers and narratives can be more powerfully and seamlessly employed to capture individual nonprofit and sector-wide work and more intentionally shape strategy and collaborations. We awarded a total of $17 million in education grants in 2010.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of a case study in the March 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. M+R Strategic Services has been working with Oxfam America, an international relief organization, since 2002. Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The guide is organized by four key questions and includes a mix of practical tips and case studies featuring Jewish organizations and others. Emotional – harness the energy and passion of the team working to achieve them. percent change, percent difference). Within the same group at different points in time.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Be sure to ask stakeholders in different departments. These will support your business case by aligning with your goals: Consistent, trusted data with standard interactive reports using a common language that employees throughout your organization easily understand – all in a secure data warehouse. Ask your colleagues questions.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

From treatment for mental health and substance abuse to vocational and training services for people transitioning back into their communities, the scope and scale of their work is tremendous. ” But add in great customer service and it can make a world of difference. We’re saving a great amount of money.

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NTEN

AUGUST 22, 2013

Unfortunately by not doing this work up front, we instead ended up with a lot of cloudy data that just raised several new questions instead of answering the one we were asking. Start with small, easy to design experiments: This was by far the largest data driven experiment NTEN had tried to date, and our lack of experience clearly showed.

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Achieve

MARCH 11, 2015

Rather, we want to go about it in a different way. Strategic Email Campaigns still work! That is a lot of work going into a campaign, but it worked to specifically target fundraisers at exactly the right point in time with exactly the right messaging they needed. Customize your email messaging as much as possible.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2023

This means the story you share about your mission-driven work can motivate everyone—from your potential and existing donors to your staff and board members. Bring your story to life using different types of video content (e.g., Equip yourself with the skills to put the power of storytelling to work for your nonprofit.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

When you are working on a tough issue or an innovative solution, sometimes it helps to learn from others who have tackled that problem or are working on a similar idea. From gathering demographic data to understanding your grantees’ experiences, grantmaking organizations have been working through many multifaceted conundrums this year.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 21, 2011

I work for the National Council on Family Relations, the premier professional association for the multidisciplinary understanding of families. They are wonderful people doing amazing work in the world, and they don’t get paid nearly enough for it. Making it work. The situation. It paid off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

I thought I had posted this case study from the NTC 08 Panel called "Social Media Case Study Slam" already, but looks like I didn't. This case study is by Danielle Brigida from the NWF and her experience using Digg and StumbleUpon for generating traffic. The rest of the case studies are here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Kayla Matthews is a researcher, writer and blogger covering topics related to technology, smart gadgets, the future of work and personal productivity. The difference is that with VR, the user is immersed within the virtual environment, while with AR, the virtual aspects are overlayed onto real-world places.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

We worked with library director, Maggie Buckholz, and Janet Royer, the library system administrator and circulation supervisor. Jeff Hawes, IT systems admin, and Jesse McCarty, IT technical assistant, worked to together to set up the new system and integrate it into the existing network. They rate themselves as advanced in IT.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 29, 2023

You want your donors to trust your work, your impact, your stewardship of resources, and your connection to the community, and stand out in a sea of information. According to the aforementioned study: “…transparency in the nonprofit sector is value-added to key stakeholders.” But not all nonprofits are created equal.

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Bonterra

APRIL 13, 2024

Grants management software Unify giving and grantmaking Build strategic nonprofit partnerships that drive more social impact with less work for your teams. Learn more How it works See how our grants management software can help corporate funders build and strengthen nonprofit partnerships for more strategic funding and maximum social impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2020

Any time you see an impressive Google Grant case study , the metrics are always made possible through conversion tracking. . Once this is in place, you can set up different types of goals in Google Analytics: . This works best if you have a “thank you” page after someone completes an action. What is Conversion Tracking?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Who in our organization is going to do the work? This is a small pilot to understand the work flow, time commitment and to identify the most effective to incorporate social media into the event that enhances audience enjoyment and understanding of the art. Tags: Case Studies Experimentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. I also learned a lot working along side Nancy Smyth , Dean of the School of Social Work. Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Here are the five core principles as we see them from our work: 1. Different platforms have different users – be sure to do your homework by reviewing statistics and reports from various social media tools to know who’s really using them, and ask your community where they want to engage with you. Case Studies.

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 30, 2021

What I love most about working for VolunteerHub is having the opportunity to make a big impact with so many different organizations, from food banks, to humane societies, shelters, and much more. One of my favorite things about working for VolunteerHub is talking to clients and telling success stories in the form of case studies.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

No matter how hard we work, if we only do things as best we know how, trying to minimize mistakes, we get stuck at our current levels of understanding, skills, and capabilities.” Furthermore, he adds, “Working harder doesn’t always achieve better results. We need to make tweaks and try new ways of working.

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2011

In each organization, we completed a project that changed the way the nonprofits did their work through the implementation of client tracking capability, using Salesforce.com for the database and Sharepoint for forms management. 2 – Good Data Happens When the Underlying System is Working, Easy to Use, and Used.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Social media for nonprofits is one of the best ways for organizations to reach out, engage with the community, and promote the work they do. Social media provides plenty of tools to help you create an effective strategy that can make a huge difference in your organization and help you meet the goals you set.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2019

As a results consultant I had the pleasure of working with the SEFCU team to design a measurement framework that enabled SEFCU to become more targeted and specific about how they wanted to invest their human and financial capital to ultimately be able to demonstrate their success toward their end desired result of “measuring lives improved”.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 31, 2021

The language speaks directly to supporters who made the foundation’s work possible during a tough time. …YOU made a difference… Your generous support… This page is what a donor sees when they go to make a gift. How do you think it makes them feel?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Furthermore, the outdated model that worked well at one time—identifying a problem and creating a program designed to solve it—is giving way to new, muti-sector approaches to create public value.” But collaboration among different organizations—even among different sectors—is the key for attacking complex issues.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Computer Technologies Program has 40 PCs, which are separated on to two different networks - one for staff and one for students. They had no problems getting the Internet to work. Installation date: December 18, 2012. This was a new installation to augment existing training labs. Each network has its own file server.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 28, 2020

Training throughout the implementation process – This training helps ensure the staff who will be using your new system first (your early adopters) understand how the system – including any extensions and integrations – works, and are prepared to manage your Nimble AMS system when it launches. Nimble AMS Case Studies.

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