Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 18, 2006

To date, the history of state violence in Guatemala has been understood primarily through accounts by victims, witnesses, and the press, because these were the main sources of available data. The knowledge gained in the pilot will to guide the overall design and implementation of a large-scale scientific study.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 20, 2018

However, to reach those people with education, resources and services, you need external aid from the press. Here are six ways to capture the interest of the press and earn media coverage to help you impact your local community. Build relationships with the press. If you want to affect the press, get to know the press.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Human Rights Our Human Rights Program continues to focus on helping activists and journalists securely document the stories of human rights abuses worldwide. Case in point is our team’s work with local LGBTI groups in Sub-Saharan Africa to help them establish independent human rights documentation initiatives.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Start by working on internal messaging and move outwardly toward the public relations messages. Press Announcement. If You Can’t Train In-Person, Document! Having documentation available for a new leader can often be as effective of a training tool as in-person guidance. . Leadership Team. Wider Team. Volunteers.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

To meet demand, the foundation launched two rapid response funds for public health and social justice initiatives within a month of each other. Long hours and endless to-do lists press an already-depleted staff more than ever before. Prepare for Changes with Documented Processes. Then 2020 happened and community needs spiked.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Sometimes a surprise donation request has value A study of around 6,000 participants from the Journal of Public Economics found that alerting the participants to the upcoming ask for a donation decreased click-through rates. Document the giving patterns among each donor segment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Check out recent press coverage of our work, featuring the head of our human rights team, Dr. Patrick Ball, in Foreign Policy magazine and NPR's On The Media. Write technical descriptions of HRP methods and projects at many levels of detail for academic publications, white papers, grant applications, grant reports, and internal documentation.

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Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

You’ll also develop guiding documents and resources like your case for support and preliminary gift range chart. Quiet phase - 6-24 months: During this phase, you’ll secure the bulk of your fundraising goal (at least 75%) through major gifts from lead donors and board members without broadcasting the campaign to the broader public.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

NSD) aimed to improve the voting experience and increase civic engagement using public art. As Project Director of NSD, I have the privilege of presenting about our project during the Public Service segment at MCON 2016. Funded by the John S. and James L. Commit to Constant Communication.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2012

NTEN's publication (which was recently honored with a Publishing Trendsetter Award ) is free and hot off the press. Three Case-Studies that document how three different nonprofits developed their social media policies. Indeed it has, and the latest issue could be our best ever.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2022

Yet the public will expect knowledge, and their decision-making ability is enhanced if they have a significant working knowledge of your mission’s discipline. The public is hyper-aware of nonprofit financial missteps. It’s meant for them to take the reports they see, the minutes they review, and the documents they sign very seriously.

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NTEN

JUNE 7, 2012

Case Study: Pinterest for Program Planning," documenting one museum's application of Pinterest to meet internal program and project planning needs. I'm pleased to announce Issue Six of NTEN:Change, A Quarterly Journal for Nonprofit Leaders ! An Interview with ASPCAPro's Pune Dracker on Content Curation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Our new and long-term Martus partners crossed a milestone and backed up to our public servers over 200,000 bulletins, each of which captures crucial, sensitive information about incidents from a victim’s story or from a field investigation. All HRP’s publications are available online. and the European Union.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

To meet demand, the foundation launched two rapid response funds for public health and social justice initiatives within a month of each other. Long hours and endless to-do lists press an already-depleted staff more than ever before. Then 2020 happened and community needs spiked. But that also presented a challenge.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

The way we engage in public dialogue, coordinate, solve problems—all of it is shifting. government is working on a new warning system to replace their oft criticized five-color coded terror index, and according to a new document obtained by The Associated Press, they're turning to Facebook and Twitter."

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

adjusted), presumably due to growth in the S&P 500 in recent years and how the 2020 market recovery positioned foundations to respond to the impetus to distribute more during a time of pressing needs. In terms of issue area, giving to: Public-society benefit organizations grew 15.7% (14.3% Giving by foundations jumped 17% (15.6%

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Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

If you are transitioning in a new Event Chair we recommend having your previous Chair document their “Best Practices” as a Hand Off Guide. Hiring a photographer/videographer to document the event. ( Media and Public Relations Committee. Assigning guests to tables and creating a seating chart. Decor Committee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

ADOPTA uses the secure file-sharing features in Office 365 to make it easy for people from different backgrounds to edit a document, resulting in richer and better written submissions. “One of the most important things we do is apply for grants that will help us get funding — and keep us going,” says Topcic-Rosenberg.

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Whole Whale

MAY 5, 2021

In the case of the above grassroots fundraiser, lots of international press easily verified the fund’s legitimacy. Communicating accountability, responsibility, and impact with the general public should be a priority for any organization. Researched by Nicholas Azulay + Isabelle Brauer. Geography of a Nonprofit Financials Page.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Ultralingua's dictionary and thesaurus software lets you to look up words both from the Ultralingua application and from within documents and on web pages. On public computers. Make translating content on brochures, mailings, and press releases easier. Tear Down the Language Barrier. In communications. As a teaching aid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

While many organizations are running to develop iPhone and Android apps, with a Treesaver dynamic publication, you skip the hassle and cost of making separate apps for every target device. What PDF’s do well is prepare a document for printing. how payday lenders have increased payments to lobbyists. Don’t Build That App.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Create a “run of show” document that you will send to each remote guest speaker. Virtual Fundraising Event Public Relations and Social Media Strategy. Her experience led to great takeaways to help your nonprofit leverage public relations efforts and social media strategy to reach and engage more people in an event.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

On Tuesday, I'll be talking about technology planning for nonprofits and public libraries at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service as a part of the Interactive Strategy Forum. Document all of those lists and take note of how much overlap there is among them. She's great. That may be trickier than you'd think.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2011

On Tuesday, I'll be talking about technology planning for nonprofits and public libraries at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service as a part of the Interactive Strategy Forum. Document all of those lists and take note of how much overlap there is among them. She's great. That may be trickier than you'd think.

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Technology Phase Laptop Tech 54

Museum 2.0

MAY 12, 2020

From the second that museum doors started closing to the public, it was an ah-ha moment —“We were made for this. Check out any of the national and international press about museum technology and social media. Fact #4: We must document it. We can’t let this moment pass without thoroughly documenting your efforts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

(If you read that link, which is basically a copy of a press release from Microsoft, you’d think they had it all sewn up. Instead of adopting the already ISO approved Open Document format, it attempted to get through ISO a standard that, among other things, depends too much on non-standard, non-publicly available legacy file formats.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 15, 2014

Make sure that it’s you – the official spokesperson for the organization – who takes the story public, not a third party. Contact the press. As you develop and follow your plan for handling the crisis, document everything and keep notes about what worked and what didn’t. 3 – Tell the Story Yourself. Be transparent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

ET, and at that point, I figured my post would probably get covered by the nonprofit trade press, like the Chronicle of Philanthropy (which it did). I knew it would be a good lesson for my blog readers, but then mid-morning, Komen posted on Facebook (but still not on Twitter), and I found the response to be really lacking given the outrage.

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

We already share this data regularly: we put it in documents for our funders and our annual reports, and if we're really bold, we put it up on our blog. Here's what they had to say about it in a press release: Each of the sites has uniquely implemented the reviews in a way that compliments their business model and format.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

Just saw a press release from Yahoo, Google, and MySpace about OpenSocial Foundation. For now, here's the basics culled from the press release, official blog posts, and blog commentary. a public benefit???) Facebook is credited with starting and fueling the development of social network applications. and not for Google???s

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 14, 2017

All nonprofits serve the public good , and if we fail to meet outcomes that failure has a long shadow. Nonprofits have that same risk, but we also have the risk of delivering the service but failing to document the service properly or the service recipient’s eligibility. Documentation. Access Controls. Physical Audits.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

A single compelling press release might land you a national television interview that leads to 100 new donors and $100,000 in funding. The nonprofit world swims in an ocean of written documents. One of the first major to-dos the staff tackled after I took the helm at SVAS was evaluating corporate documents and marketing literature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

What I liked about TwitChimp is that has the ability to add annotations to the link and gather public feedback for additional “tweeps” to add. It’s a four-step process: 1) read social media trade press 2) discuss with peers 3) present in-house 4) design a measurable, low risk experiment to start.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

The TRC’s final report has been covered extensively in the press. In this blog entry, I talk about how we analyzed the data from the Liberian TRC, some reactions to the TRC’s final report, and offer thoughts looking beyond the current public debate to the broader role and historical value of the TRC’s work.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

A recent example of that might be the SEC Revolving Door Database , which I think is pretty neat both in terms of providing valuable information to the public and using Convio in an interesting way. All that info presented a fun challenge on the Convio side—how to present these documents in a useful way to the public?

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

You should keep the future in mind when designing your brand identity, considering how both communication methods and public perception will evolve. Whether new technology platforms or adjustments in public perception, you’ll want branding that’s not too complicated or set-in-stone that you can’t make changes.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Historically, businesses in America were given a charter for a specific public purpose that allowed them to operate and expired upon the completion of the chartered project. A Benefit Corporation, or B Corp, is a business entity that creates a public benefit and meets tests of transparency and accountability.

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