Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

So, when Mark Horvath , someone who fits the description of “ free agent “ in our book The Networked Nonprofit , let me know he was passing by San Francisco at the end of his road trip to promote WeAreVisible , I suggested we all have lunch. Christian Canter, Shelter Network, and Mark Horvath, Invisible People TV.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 28, 2014

Hacktivation event seeks ways for tech to help S.F. homeless - SFGate : Technology whizzes, nonprofit workers and others will converge this weekend in San Francisco to try to cook up new tech-savvy ways to help the homeless in a series of get-togethers organizers are calling Hacktivation for the Homeless.'

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. Beyond 12 is developing the next generation of MyCoach, a mobile app that helps low-income students navigate the path to college and stay on track once they arrive, significantly enhancing graduation rates.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Your local NetSquared group is here to help with free, in-person events being held across the U.S. Baltimore, Maryland: WordPress 101 and Tech Help and Consultations. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (Weekly). Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Trans*H4ck is based in San Francisco, but has held events in Boston, Chicago, Oakland, Las Vegas, and more. This location-based apps helps users find LGBT-friendly healthcare providers, mental health specialists, and providers that specialize in transgender health in San Francisco. Lesbians Who Tech.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2015

Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup, builds apps that help communities solve pressing issues. To help kick off Caravan's next breakfast, happening on May 1, I thought I'd follow up with one of projects, LocalFreeWeb , discussed in October, and see how it was progressing. A Simple Digital Inclusion Tool.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Our goal is to help each other solve our tech challenges, find a tribe of people who share our passions, and have a ridiculously good time while we’re at it! We’d love to help you start a new meetup. San Francisco, CA: Let’s Go to the BSR Sustainability Hackathon 2013! Newest Net2Local Groups.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking. This hackathon took place at San Francisco State University's Paul J. The participants were tasked with developing digital tools to help nonprofits and government agencies work better together. freespace], San Francisco. Leonard Library. ReWrite Oakland.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The following advice can help an NGO move away from constantly seeking grant funding by building a constant inflow of funds from individuals: Plan you crowdfunding campaigns early – what will you raise funds for, how will the funds be spent, plan your media campaign including a compelling story and images/videos. 83% regularly vote.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

They’re being created mainly to help mental health patients adhere to a prescription medication regimen. High-Tech Help for Homelessness. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help. Here’s the part I like.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In their upcoming webinar, Powered by Pro Bono 101 , the Taproot Foundation will show you how to harness the power of pro bono services to help your organization do everything from build a website to update your brand strategy and develop strong strategic plans. Did you know that play can help you, too? Not in San Francisco?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In their upcoming webinar, Powered by Pro Bono 101 , the Taproot Foundation will show you how to harness the power of pro bono services to help your organization do everything from build a website to update your brand strategy and develop strong strategic plans. Did you know that play can help you, too? Not in San Francisco?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Jared Paul, the co-founder of a new nonprofit that has a focus on homeless youth and one of the winners of the $25,000 in the first phase of Chase's Giving Community Contest offered to share his thoughts. Does these contests really help build capacity of nonprofits and bring innovative solutions for social to the forefront or not?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. We’re looking for new ways technology can help, and we’re looking to bring together experts who are already leading the path forward. Isabella Gonzalez Potter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

It's taking place this year in San Francisco from April 26-28th. The Day of Service is an opportunity for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community - in form of sharing knowledge one-on-one with a local organization or participate in a group project like installing a wireless network in a homeless shelter!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

San Francisco, CA: Let’s Learn About Project Homeless Connect SF: Discussion and Brainstorming. Cambridge, UK: Social Media Surgery - hands on help with social media. We’d love to help you start a new meetup. Washington, DC: NetSquared meetup. Wednesday, October 16. Thursday, October 17.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SF New Deal began with a vision of San Francisco as a world class city that provides an abundance of support, opportunity, dignity, respect, and appreciation for small businesses and neighbors in need. SF New Deal launched in March 2020 as a rapid response to the COVID pandemic in San Francisco.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

TechSoup is one of those workplaces where we're encouraged to be ourselves, so when you call or email us, you're likely to have somebody very interesting (as well as helpful) to talk to. It's the place where you call or email to get help with your donation requests or find out what donations you're eligible for.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 29, 2007

In my surfing around for adoption opportunities, I came across the incredible story of Pali Boucher, the founder of Rocket Dog Rescue in San Francisco. Boucher was the child of a homeless, drug-addicted mother who died when she was ten. As a homeless adult, she visited animal shelters to spend time with the dogs there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

Do nonprofits and foundations listen to the people they seek to help and act on what they hear? A recent study by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) finds that 99 percent of nonprofit organizations collect feedback from the people they seek to help. The answer is…sort of…. Carefully Map Out Timing.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2015

This is the mission of Caravan Studios' Range app: helping youth and those who work with them find locations where free summer meals are served. What if technology could help connect kids to the meals? and San Francisco ) are adding social workers to their employee roster. Caravan Studios: Building Through Listening.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 19, 2007

In San Francisco, Yoga Sangha is hosting a "Spiritual Activation Series" with lecture, yoga and meditation. On Gaiam , you can buy organic cotton T-shirts that say, "Off the Matt, Into the World," to help raise money for YouthAids , an AIDS prevention and education program created by yoga instructor, Seane Corn.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

Are you… Helping youth develop lifelong skills? We want you to tell us how you are using products donated through TechSoup to help the youth in your community develop valuable life skills that will prepare them to take full advantage of their bright futures. Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, U.S.A.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

As I mentioned last week, I'll be speaking about blogging at the Writing for Change Conference in San Francisco this month. I'm a literary agent in San Francisco, with the Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents , and we've been in business a long time here in San Francisco. It's to help you through.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

We began, essentially, organizing a union of low-wage workers, unemployed workers, to try to improve both the living conditions and the working conditions for low-wage workers here in San Francisco. Steve Williams: When I was in college I did a lot of service work around homelessness issues. I was hooked from that moment on.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

May 29, 2019; San Francisco Chronicle. Now, San Francisco Chronicle business reporter Carolyn Said writes that Benetech is “almost halfway through a six-month pilot with six Bay Area social-service agencies to collaborate on maintaining their crucial databases of local resources through an open-standards data exchange.”

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

Schoolhouse Supplies is a nonprofit based in northeast Portland that helps to serve classrooms in need by operating a volunteer-run Free Store for Teachers, which is stocked with donated supplies. Upwardly Global helps immigrants to rebuild their professional careers in the U.S. Our remote NTENners also volunteered on Wednesday!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Probably like many of you, I feel like a time traveler when I’m asked constantly about what machine learning and blockchain can do for the communities we want to help, and the social enterprises that serve them. We have to use this opening to help advance our goal; using software and data to change the world for the better! A database!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

The homeless community? These programs are usually used to help staff have a better sense of front-line needs and challenges, but they're also an obvious way to help all staff literally "connect" with visitors. Pick a specific community (or two). Don't say that your institution will be a "town square for the community."

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Darius Graham | Social Innovation Project | Washington, DC The Social Innovation Project tackles pressing social issues by providing seed funding and resources to help transform ideas into sustainable programs. (Twitter: @BreakingHeels ) 2. Twitter: @dcsocialinnov ) 3. Erin Healy | Youth L.E.A.D. Miami, FL Youth L.E.A.D.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

I thought, well, I don't think it's going to hurt me, and maybe it will help. That same morning, an amazing string of events happened that showed me that maybe this really could help. She helps manage the team of volunteers that run the site. There's actually a homeless couple who is taking part. You should try it."

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

Our work focuses on advocacy, policy, education and political thought that helps to shape the dialogue and public conversation about the interests of these folks. We are most interested in women of color, and girls of color who are the most economically and socially fragile. That is really where the origins of the work came out of.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

San Francisco NetSquared (Net2) kicked off its 2012 Meetup line up with Craig Newmark , of Craigslist and craigconnects , who talked about using technology for the common good. The direction he chose, to help support nonprofits and grassroots causes, drew on his strengths in technology.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 21, 2022

We execute at all three levels to help our clients fulfill their missions. But we also ask the most important question: did this campaign help us build power, and are we better positioned to win the next round? But the best argument doesn’t always win—which is why we help them bring public pressure to their side. .

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In addition to adoptions, North Shore Animal League clearly prioritizes donations to help further their cause. In addition to their mission statement, Mustard Seed also created a dedicated page to showcase the individuals they’re helping every day. And who could say no to their faces?). Why This Nonprofit Website Stands Out.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2021

Fiery content that compels your audiences to action can yield wonderful outcomes , helping your nonprofit reach a myriad of marketing and fundraising objectives. Your goal is to create content with the specific intention of capturing attention and interest from folks who can help you further your mission. . Know Your Distinct Benefits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And also, because I've always been involved with nonprofits, which are about helping other people and trying to make the world a better place, and I've done a lot of career counseling, I'm always trying to give people advice and share information. I moved to San Francisco. Check this out, check that out, and look at this!"

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