Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2019

In the wake of some of the most stressful times for nonprofits and activists that I work with, many are seeking out ways to reduce burnout, practice self-care and build empathetic relationships and supportive policies in the workplace. Recent burnout research and trends reveal that work environments are becoming more overwhelming and complex.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2022

Meaningful data is a tremendous asset to advocates, policymakers, and mission-driven organizations. Increasingly, organizations of all sizes have access to digital tools that provide data, but data storytelling—making facts relatable and actionable—takes additional effort to transform data into tangible stories.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

This vast library contains more than 34,000 freely available philanthropic resources authored by organizations in our sector—including reports, case studies, surveys, toolkits, and more. This case study illustrates the outcomes they achieved by directly engaging community members in their grant funding decision-making process.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation. This has led to situations where BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ users are disproportionately affected by policies meant to address “bad” behaviors.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

If you’ve migrated donor data from one CRM to another, no doubt you have dealt with a lot of difficult decisions. In fact, our donor data migration clients often express surprise at the number of decisions they have to make. In this post, we discuss our list of Top 10 Tough Donor Data Migration Decisions.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 31, 2021

Despite the need to address this gap, PhotoDNA and related tools are currently facing attacks from both tech sector policies (like expanded adoption of end-to-end encryption ) and government regulation (such as the European Union’s ePrivacy Directive ). This upward trend has continued, as the CyberTipline received nearly 21.8

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OneCause

JULY 7, 2022

When broken down by budget-size, the trends show impressive growth across the board: Medium-sized nonprofits with budgets of $1M – $10M were the largest growth leaders, notching a 25% year-over-year increase in their online giving revenue. Online data security and privacy is of high concern for Americans.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Candid’s Issue Lab provides access to more than 33,000 philanthropic resources, which include reports, studies, surveys, and toolkits that cover a variety of issue areas and are contributed by social sector organizations from around the world.

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Candid

MAY 13, 2024

In our study How Philanthropic Collaboratives Measure, Evaluate, and Learn , we examined three levels of impact: grantees, systems or fields, and donors. That means they both receive grants from funders—and thus must demonstrate their unique value proposition—and seek impact through grantmaking and other supports for nonprofits and the field.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

As discovered in the Global Trends in Giving Report , the.org domain is by far the most trusted domain for nonprofit website and email communications. and the best way to learn is to spend an hour or so a month studying your analytics. Gmail, Yahoo, etc. 4) Experiment with LinkedIn Ads (maybe).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Digital Trends. There were 2o people in the dining party, and AppleBee’s policy is to add the 18% tip automatically to any parties over 6. The bill was divided up and Alois Bell wrote on her receipt, “I give God 10% why do you get 18%?” He went through some recent trends with social networking use.

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

Reading financial statements, analyzing data, reviewing the Form 990 before it’s filed, approving policies related to conflicts of interest, tapping into reserves, and conducting internal audits might not light your fire. You should also discuss policies and allow ample time for questions and answers. It’s not sexy.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 18, 2022

However, it’s crucial for leaders to embrace DEI principles and empower the staff and members in their association, especially as 71% of association professionals seek to develop and improve DEI efforts, according to the Community Brands Association Trends Study. . Recruit a diverse group of members. ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. From these questions, our national study, How Strong is Your Social Net? was created.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The 135-page report is organized by five key consumer trends that will influence giving, summarizes a lot of key data, research and trends. . The GivingTuesday Data Commons collaborated on the Q2 report of the Fundraising Effectiveness Project and the results are encouraging.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2012

I n it you'll find: " Five Communications Myths that Executive Directors Believe ," from Kivi Leroux Miller, based on the 2012 Communications Trends Report. Three Case-Studies that document how three different nonprofits developed their social media policies. An Interview with representatives from the UN Global Pulse Initiative.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Another way to establish consistency is to standardize processes and policies regardless of the team manager. Schedule regular meetings to review data points with your officers to build accountability. Sharing peer trends and results quarterly with the whole team can also drive performance throughout the year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

” Dave analyzes trends and technologies to predict what is next on the horizon. He said in the future there will sensors on livestock that will give us data about them. These are mobile, sensors everywhere (wearable technology), location data, social networks, and big data and machine learning.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 25, 2022

But no matter how your nonprofit is doing good in our world, there will always be ways your work and mission are affected by legislation, policies, and local and national events, which means there will always be reasons to make your voice heard. What are some trends around nonprofit digital advocacy? Key takeaways.

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

From improvements in user experience, to new trends in visual design and technical performance, there are a lot of factors that are fundamental or high on your priority list. Ask yourself if these tools have a unified visual voice and brand and if they are speaking to one another to share data and inform your decision-making.

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

While studies show that workers with bachelor’s degrees have higher lifetime earnings and lower poverty rates than those without, technology has changed the workforce. provides federal incentives and policy support to encourage workforce development. For example, the U.S. Leverage student and alum relationships.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

Armed with such data describing the value of the arts for its participants, arts leaders can change the perception that art is merely a luxury to show that, instead, it is a vital necessity to human beings. With such evaluation data, arts leaders can promulgate the value of the organization’s art to all stakeholders. 3-4, Ppg 223-233.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

Keynote : Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Be Networked, Use Measurement, and Learn from Your Data – I shared some high level ideas from my book and discussion about the three big themes. She points a few trends making our individual AND organizational memories shorter.

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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2013

One running theme that echoes behind any new technology tool introduced to the public, or new trend identified for nonprofit operations, or new idea brought up by your staff is the concept of “risk and reward.” Case-Study from Metropolitan Chicago YMCA on using data to drive efficiency and measure impact.

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Achieve

AUGUST 10, 2014

In my graduate work in Philanthropic Studies and Nonprofit Management at IUPUI, we often discuss demands by today’s funders and donors for nonprofit accountability, transparency, performance, and return on investment. The research, evaluation, and data needed to satisfy funders about these issues can easily overwhelm an underfunded nonprofit.

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Achieve

JANUARY 3, 2018

Over the past year we have witnessed not only a change in administration and therefore policy, but there too has been a shift in the ways in which individuals engage in social issues and causes—many of which have been impacted by the new administration and associated policies. Will policy be created to support this movement?

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Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) I hope the data is useful to everyone.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. It is interactive and contains a great amount of data to mine. Source of Data. As part of a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

I thought I'd share how I look at my Facebook page data. It much easier to collect, analyze and take action with your data when you do a little bit each month or every other week. You should also be thinking about what to measure and an efficient method for collecting that data before you begin. You are all the experts here!

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2013

The trend has a name: BYOD, or Bring Your Own Device. Depending on what kind of data you handle—student data, medical data, and so on—security is likely a key part of your work. A study of 3.4 Donate your brain and join the TechSoup forums to talk about BYOD policies at your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Since government is a major funder of rural programs, it's useful to know that a clear trend in government funding is interagency collaborations. Grant proposals benefit from showing an organization's IT sophistication, particularly in collecting data on outcomes of a grant in some depth. Insights on Government Funding.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

A recent banking trend is to eliminate sending cancelled checks and/or copies of cancelled checks with bank statements and provide them online instead. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners 2016 Global Fraud Study , Report to the Nations on Occupied Fraud and Abuse, analyzed 2,410 occupational fraud cases.

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Care2

APRIL 24, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. In isolation, the cuts may seem small,” says Stapel, “but over time, they speak to a larger, more serious trend that will have an impact on the health, happiness, and safety of our communities.”. Below, we highlight some of the prominent trends.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Here are the highlights.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 22, 2010

As data is added in the coming months, the sites' health insurance "plan finder" promises to significantly improve consumers' ability to untangle the mess of insurance options available to them. Comment Policy: This tab makes it clear what users should expect. Also, privacy practices are governed by Facebook, not the U.S.

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