Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2012

This week, KD Paine and I, did a whirlwind tour of ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” book talks in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Many thanks to our generous hosts including the Foundation Center/SF, Zero Divide, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, TechSoup Global, and Stanford University.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

To overcome these challenges, Candid, in coalition with a growing number of partners , set out to build a demographic data-led movement to meaningfully and measurably advance equity in the social sector. As Cheryl emphasized: It is up to us, as leaders in the social sector, to take action and use this tool to drive meaningful change.

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Candid

OCTOBER 13, 2022

To better deliver on our mission, and help you more easily find articles on foundation transparency, we have consolidated our funders’ content from Transparency Talk, the former GlassPockets blog, into Candid’s Blog. Hole in the Road to Transparency: People with Disabilities Often Excluded by Foundations & Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Many of you have asked when the Kindle version of ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” would be available and I’m happy to announce you can get download your copy from Amazon now! Want to share freight costs to NZ of “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit”? measure-networ… DM me. … Read More

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Candid

MARCH 21, 2023

Philanthropic responses to the Turkey and Syria earthquakes Candid has been tracking philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake and reporting on major giving by public corporations and foundations. The IKEA Foundation , a Dutch foundation established by IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad, has committed $21.4

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Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

A report from the Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity (CELO) and The Allstate Foundation explores how Gen Z is expanding the definition of “community service” and seeking to maximize impact—for themselves and the communities they serve. reported for “informal helping.” The imperative to center youth also applies to funders.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Glasspockets.org is a website sponsored by the Foundation Center that is focused on transparency among funders. foundations still don’t have websites, quite possibly intentionally. The objectives of the Glasspockets project are actually pretty simple: Inspire private foundations to greater openness in their communications.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Earlier this month, Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the eighth edition of our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. global disaster-related?philanthropy,?analyzing?funding funding from foundations, bilateral and multilateral donors, the U.S. In it, we examined?available?2019?data

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 5, 2021

With those amazing benefits in mind, the Salesforce.org philanthropy team chose two organizations to work with that aligned with the strategic vision and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #4, Education: Story Pirates and Simbi Foundation. Employees could participate in two volunteering activities: Read for good with Simbi Foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

This topic was center-stage at this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum. I had the opportunity to speak with both Gallucci and Roy about this unique funder collaborative and more specifically about how the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education would measure the impact of their investments.

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Candid

JANUARY 4, 2023

In response to the simultaneous global pandemic and racial equity movement, philanthropy committed to act with urgency to better support nonprofit partners, as well as the people and communities hit hardest by the impacts of these dual events. Pledges were made to reduce barriers, shift power, and engage in more equitable funding practices.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Why career wellbeing is the foundation of the best possible life. As workplaces around the world face the challenges of an increasingly remote workforce perhaps forever changed by the coronavirus pandemic, it has never been more important to measure and expand wellbeing in organizations,” explain the book authors Jim Clifton and Jim Harter.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2022

In a recent webinar, Blackbaud’s VP of Global Social Responsibility Rachel Hutchisson talked with Chantal Forster, the executive director of the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG), about how the role of technology in today’s charitable organizations no longer hides behind a door marked “IT.” Using Infrastructure to Drive Change.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 10, 2022

Whether we’ve convened in-person or virtually during a global pandemic, our Salesforce.org nonprofit community never misses an opportunity to celebrate, learn, and imagine a better, more equal world — together. Here are five reasons to register today for the Nonprofit Summit this May. Reason #1: Connect with the Nonprofit Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I spent the last two days at the TechSoup Global Summit getting inspiration overload about social media, networks, social network mapping, networks of networks, global peer learning, building a sector, nonprofit technology, and many other ideas I’m passionate about. This is what makes measurement of networks complex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. Picking A Social Media Measurement Pilot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

Regular Content Editorial Meetings: At the Case Foundation, Jenna Sauber reported that they have editorial meetings every two weeks to plot out content in detail. Set Next Steps at Meetings: Marnie Webb at TechSoup Global says they also use a weekly meeting to report on efforts and make the next set of decisions.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Nonprofits, corporate foundations, social enterprises, and organizations working in the social sector can struggle with how to approach understanding their impact: How do they know that changes in their beneficiary group are due to their interventions? How closely should they track those changes? But first… What is impact management ?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

In 2017, Equal Measures 2030 —an independent civil society and private sector-led partnership—was established in order to connect data and evidence with advocacy and action as a means to drive gender equality and reach the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. . The future for Equal Measures 2030.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

I was honored to be invited to cover this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum , a community of donors and social investors committed to international causes. ” with Jacob Harold , Guidestar; Robert Kirkpatrick , UN Global Pulse; Mayur Patel , Knight Foundation. Global Pulse @rgkirkpatrick.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Foundations, charities report $352 million in 2019 disaster funding. 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. November 11, 2021.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. Who decides what is measured? Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 26, 2018

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the United Nations Global Compact Network USA Symposium in New York City. As Lise Kingo, CEO and executive director of UN Global Compact observes, the amount needed to finance the SDGs is about 50% of all global capital. So what else can we do? What else can YOU do? Look long-term.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2022

Funders are seeing this challenge and answering the call, using their influence to not just support the sector’s own path to net zero, but also increase the capacity of the sector to drive an equitable transition to net zero globally. And how can we accurately measure the carbon reduction that results from these projects?”.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This year’s Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report, published by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) and Candid, tracked roughly $121 billion in aid to date in 2020 across multiple sources—including bilateral and multilateral aid, U.S. federal agencies, donor-advised funds, and giving platforms. Beirut explosion.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2024

Most recently, many of these equity initiatives and programs are being challenged directly, on a global scale. Hold Yourselves Accountable: Building accountability into your grant-making process by establishing clear goals, metrics, and mechanisms for measuring progress toward equity.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Our collective attention has been almost singularly focused on the pandemic and its global effects. Based on the latest available data, this report documents $30 billion in private, public, corporate and individual disaster-related giving to address major disasters and humanitarian crises that affected millions globally in 2019.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This is the problem that Foundation Center, GlobalGiving, GuideStar, and TechSoup have set out to solve by creating BRIDGE (Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities). Today's launch is an important milestone for the world of transparency, impact measurement, philanthropy, and nonprofit and social enterprise performance.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Our Leadership Council incorporates a diverse array of expertise and cause affiliations with representation from nonprofit organizations, corporations, foundations, academic institutions, and many more. His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2013

” When Alison Carlman , unmarketing manager for Global Giving, shared her social media measurement spreadsheet during a peer learning session I’m facilitating for Packard Foundation grantees based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I couldn’t help but think, “Now That’s A Spreadsheet!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

I was only there for 48 hours, but I did two workshops on two different topics ( nonprofit social media managers workshop and measurement ), a discussion on impact measurement in the Beacon Lounge , and lighting talk failure Good By Global (the Social Good Summit at SXSW).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In 2017, Lim was selected to be on the Global Happiness Council of Work and Wellbeing and in 2020, Delivering Happiness (DH) was placed on the Inc. The real answer lies in listening to your employees and creating a strong cultural foundation that allows for flexibility for them to create work/life harmony.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

GivingTuesday, held on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, is a global giving movement encouraging people to donate to the causes they care about. By focusing on these three items, you can create a solid foundation for your campaign: Goal Setting: Establish S.M.A.R.T. For more on S.M.A.R.T. Your focus is narrower.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2016

These new UN Sustainable Development Goals are the de facto agenda for global philanthropy, and they have a new dimension: technology targets to enable implementation. Governments, foundations, and charities learned a good deal from working to implement the previous UN goals. The UN Foundation View on Technology. ending poverty.

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

Also on the DEI in Practice webinar, Tonia Wellons, President and CEO at the Greater Washington Community Foundation , explained the process they went through to find an investment management firm for their endowment that aligned on prioritizing women- and minority-led organizations. And how it was a continual journey.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

In 2017, Equal Measures 2030 —an independent civil society and private sector-led partnership—was established in order to connect data and evidence with advocacy and action as a means to drive gender equality and reach the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. . The future for Equal Measures 2030.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2021

The Vilcek Foundation. The New York-based Vilcek Foundation ’s mission is to elevate and communicate the importance of immigrants’ contributions to the arts and sciences in America by awarding annual Vilcek Prizes to support innovators in these areas. Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation. Canopus – Website for Art.

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