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MAY 22, 2013

It takes us through why it is important for nonprofits to connect with Millennials based on a good synthesis of recent research and follows through with informative chapters that will help your nonprofit build a solid strategy for connecting with the connected generation in your organization’s communication’s strategy.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

MacArthur Foundation named 13 organizations as recipients of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. The Award, which recognizes exceptional grantees and helps ensure their long-term sustainability, provides each organization with up to $1.5 and Catherine T. million, depending on the size of its budget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

A big thank you conference organizers! She shared some insights about the Red Cross’s social media work leading up to Haiti. She made great points about what they had in place the day before the earthquake in Haiti struck: Robust listening program where staff skims and responds. That was the gift of attending Nonprofit 2.0

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APRIL 6, 2012

This prize will be given annually to an organization that leverages networks. Annie Leonard, the Story of Stuff, was the recipient. Winning Best Small Organization is “ Protect Our Defenders ”, a gripping account of sexual assault in the military. Several individuals in the nonprofit technology community were recognized.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Since 2009, Zynga.org has enabled millions of players to contribute nearly $20 million to more than 30 nonprofit organizations globally. In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City. Social Impact Through Digital Games. She previously worked with the Washington, D.C., Conferences'

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APRIL 1, 2013

.” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. Click to see larger version. Internet Director.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Enoch is a great example of a free agent – having organized trips to Haiti for physicians to volunteer during shorter periods. The discussion provides an opportunity for an organization to clarify it’s visual for social media. Book Winners Elliot Margolies, Liz Schoeben, and Mary Colvig.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

So how can we put the interest in video to work for our organizations, specifically your year-end fundraising? In 2010 much of their focus was on responding to the earthquake in Haiti. Do they need a reintroduction to your organization or cause? Here are 6 ideas to get you started: 1. Reuse your existing assets.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Given the visible success of the Haiti text to give campaigns, SMS is bound to become one of the tools in the an organization's fundraising bag if it isn't already. Post it to your Facebook Fanpage and any other social networks your organization is active on. Reinforce this in a follow up thank you email as well.

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JUNE 1, 2010

But as Daniel Ben-Horin said, “Our theory of change states that software products are necessary, but not sufficient for empowerment of social change organizations. Ben Horin noted that TechSoup Global did not have a partner in Haiti, but they did in Chile.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I was in NYC over the weekend and Monday to attend and speak at the Mashable Social Good Summit , a three-day conference featuring discussions and presentations with global social activists, organizations, and new media experts. There were a couple of big takeaways for me: Inspiration and Feeling Good About The Desire to Do Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Haiti crisis demonstrated that text to give fundraising can be a powerful tool, particularly as an "early responder" fundraising technique in disaster. Or be bailout for our nonprofit. But will the dramatic text fundraising that we saw the Red Cross experience translate to every non-profit that wants to add it to their tool bag?

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you skip that, your mobile tactics won’t yield much impact or learning. What we witnessed over a year ago with SMS donations to the Haiti disaster is not going to be the norm for nonprofits. Larger organizations may have the capacity and resources to make a bigger investment. But many smaller organizations don’t.

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APRIL 22, 2010

If that's the case, stop reading right now, go to the Hands On Network page devoted to Celebrating People in Action , and nominate that person that made the biggest difference for your organization this year. One recent project asked people to tag photos from Haiti in an effort to identify missing people. Still here?

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AUGUST 11, 2010

Other organizations broke their efforts down into bite-size pieces for their volunteers by creating templates to use to send messages to their friends, post and comment on blogs, and create their own videos.” This also tells us something about telling stories and increasing awareness of your issue or organization in general.

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DECEMBER 29, 2006

Almost ten years ago, she founded a nonprofit organization, The Sharing Foundation , dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional, educational, and medical needs of orphaned and seriously- disadvantaged children in Cambodia. be it Cambodia, Africa or Haiti.??? Nancy Hendrie, a retired pediatrician in her seventies, who didn???t

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DECEMBER 30, 2008

Whether you want to raise money for clean water in Ethiopia, vaccinations for children in Haiti, or a safe home for a puppy in Mississipi, with a Birthday Cause your friends can give in honor of your special day. So, despite a recession, charitable giving will have new numerous new -- albeit smaller sources of contributions."

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JUNE 4, 2010

There has been an explosion in size of nonprofit sector over last twenty years, huge increases in donations and number of organizations, and yet needle hasn’t moved on any serious social issue. Many organizations cannot just flip a switch. Once an organization has assumed this way of being, then comes the doing.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Born2Fly ( [link] ) is an organization dedicated to banishing sex trafficking, and Diana Scimone of Born2Fly’s excellent guest post ( [link] ) here on Beth’s blog (which was reproduced in Twitter for Good ( [link] ) tells the story of learning from a fundraising campaign that didn’t meet expectations. Targeted reach is what you’re after.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

It was the first time an organization like Compassion had used social networking as a medium to raise awareness and release children from poverty. There are so many organizations out there.who can they trust? Know the organizations you represent inside and out. I had been on trips before, but never like this. How do they give?

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

It was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008 and has been used for many other projects, including tracking disaster relief efforts in Haiti. More recently, the London Tube used it to track disruptions from the Tube strike.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. Ushahidi has had impressive growth over the past 18 months and most visible was its work with Haiti.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2007

echoDonations.org is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping charities start or grow their online fundraising programs by offering financial incentives for donors to give more. CrowdFunder is another web site that lets you set up a page and collect donations for a personal fundraising effort or nonprofit organization.

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