Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Benetech President's Update Winter 2011 I’m pleased to provide you you a detailed update on Benetech for the first time in two years. Last summer I talked about our great summer interns and fellows and early this year, I sent a copy of our 20th Anniversary Report that talked about our entire history.

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Achieve

JULY 14, 2022

Let’s say your nonprofit specializes in wildlife conservation and you want to grow your donor base. Email 4: Give insight into the day-to-day costs of conservation and invite your subscribers to donate or set up a recurring gift. physical letters can be time consuming and costly. Raise the issue: Explain the problem at hand.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

70% say that when they first visit your website they want to know about your mission and history, and 56% want to know about your financial condition. 44% said a few times per year, 12% once a month, 18% a few times a month, 14% once a week or more, 12% ones a year. The primary obstacle to volunteering being a lack of time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 6, 2012

Angela Yu, Changed by Design Celebration and exposure of designers' ideas for solving the world's problems. Eric Martin, Native American Public Telecommunications Blog NAPT shares Native stories with the world, and advances Native media that represents the values, experiences, histories, and cultures of Tribal Nations, communities and people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Two or three times a year, I publish a president's update for Benetech. Craig is a summer associate exploring new applications for Miradi, Benetech’s user-friendly conservation project planning and monitoring software. When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

Guests bid on items, have an exciting time, and go home with a valuable prize. However, silent auctions are likely not the best for time-sensitive campaigns like an emergency fundraising appeal. Now that you have your planning committee, it’s time to figure out where and how exactly your fundraising silent auction will take place.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Once upon a long time ago, North America was bursting with animals that were really big. By this time, there was an official California Condor Recovery Program that included many groups: government agencies managing the program under the Endangered Species Act , environmental organizations, Native American groups, scientists, and zoos.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Museums have been grappling with this question for years ( here's a 2007 roundup of such projects ), most aggressively in zoos and natural history museums where staff hope to inspire conservation and in history/concept museums that focus on civic engagement and activism. I thought about the dots. Maybe a thousand.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

70% say that when they first visit your website they want to know about your mission and history, and 56% want to know about your financial condition. 44% said a few times per year, 12% once a month, 18% a few times a month, 14% once a week or more, 12% once a year. The primary obstacle to volunteering is a lack of time.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

Our mandate was to be the museum of Silicon Valley--not of its material history, but its pulse of innovation. The problem was not one of content but one of form. The problem was not one of content but one of form. This isn't just a science center problem. It's a cultural institution problem. This was impossible.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It allows anyone to produce decent first drafts in a fraction of the time as before, regardless of the level of expertise. “Fundwriter frees up time and energy for me.” She’s had time to work on the proposal she had been waiting to write for months. i.e., “first time donation”).

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

This can take time, but it pays off. A story about your organization’s history, programs, and future goals is unlikely to get picked up by a newspaper, TV station, or digital publication. Are you tackling a problem in an innovative way? . The worst time to pitch about the event is after it happened. More about that later.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Are you passionate about conservation and environmental causes? Gabriela Mistral.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2009

While at times wonkish, the book is also energetically adamant that museums need to change in several significant ways to be valuable and relevant to their audiences. It’s indicative of the ways the museum world to me is a very conservative world. John: The real currency in the 21st century is not about money – it’s about time.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Attendees include approximately 200 Directors and senior staff from Service and Conservation Corps across the country; officials from federal agencies; representatives from philanthropic foundations; and friends and supporters of the Corps movement. Whether you have a staff of one or 100, you will find benefit in taking time away to attend.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

I think there is now lots of evidence to suggest that American consumers are increasingly aware of the world's problems. They're aware that poverty around the world is not diminishing, they're aware that environment degradation is a looming problem. Hell, people in this country don't even have time to vote.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

When I went to see Van Jones speak for the first time at the Green Festival in November 2002 about, "Green Jobs, Not Packed Jails," people in the States were just starting to lift their heads up from a year of fear and despair after September 11th. I have heard him speak several times since, and each time, my hope is renewed.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Perhaps nonprofits have listened to my advice over the years to time their email campaigns when the most giving happens. One nonprofit sent me 21 emails during the month, which was slightly down from the all-time record of 23 last year. The Nature Conservancy gets the Best Text Message Award for the second year in a row.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

We’re going to save some time for Q&A. But you make your time between here and London. And so I’m just so appreciative that you have made the time to join us here today. I need to pipe down because I’m taking up way too much of your time, Jen. That is the problem that they want to solve.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I know, it’s a busy time of year. We’re going to save some time for Q&A at the end. I know both of you are super busy you’re speaking at conferences, and doing webinars, and workshops all the time, so it’s really a treat to have you. . ” I love this topic. And thanks for joining.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

This was particularly directed at MN150, which featured visitor-nominated milestones of Minnesota history, and Children of the Lodz Ghetto, which invites users to conduct original research on the path taken by thousands of children during the Holocaust. At professional conferences, we tend to spend most of our time analyzing.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

They are in one or many channels and your job as a nonprofit marketer is to deliver the right message to them at the right time—ultimately convincing them to spend their attention, time, and money with you. Deliver the right message to the right person at the right time – on the right channel. So, what can you do?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

We've been doing that in the non-profit and social activism space for this whole time. We've been friends since we were seven, so we already had a very long collaborative history. We had been working on films as kids for a long time; we liked the kind of mass communication. Britt: That is one of your best known success stories.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

We’re going to try to save some time at the end for Q&A. And you’re always so gracious with your time and fitting us in. So I don’t want to take up too much time from you except to say thank you and you’re awesome. Thank you for taking the time to learn a little bit more, discuss grants.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 23, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted or something comes up, don’t worry, we’ll get you all that good stuff and you’ll be able to review the content on your own time. We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A. Hopefully it won’t be the last time. You doing okay?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

At the same time, I had been writing a lot on new communication technologies such as satellites, digital media, cell phones, and so on. So, its a huge mistake for a person with conservative opinions to read only rightwing blogs, for example. In 1996 a friend and I did a study of presidential campaign websites. No real interactivity.

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Care2

AUGUST 29, 2008

At the same time, I had been writing a lot on new communication technologies such as satellites, digital media, cell phones, and so on. So, its a huge mistake for a person with conservative opinions to read only rightwing blogs, for example. In 1996 a friend and I did a study of presidential campaign websites. No real interactivity.

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