Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2016

Powering the Nonprofit Community through Customer Support Guest Post. by Dorie Wallace Vice President, Customer Support, Blackbaud. But until that happens, our support team wants every interaction to delight customers through friendly service and proactive problem-solving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

By publishing these reviews, GNP helps raise awareness about the importance of these groups, and showcases the many reasons to continue supporting their work. Therefore, I urge you to participate in GNP's campaign, and help our valuable arts organizations regain the support they so badly need from their communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Donate to Help Victims in Philippines. She wants to donate, she wants to help and she wrote this useful guideline for giving: 1. This way, I can just support what they’ve started. I need the donation process to be simple and straightforward, and one I can help to promote to others who might want to donate too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2016

Cindy and I are just two of over 70,000 individuals in the NTEN community who helped by NTEN’s many services and programs to carry out our professional work. We are raising money for NTEN to help ensure that nonprofits can access the resources, events, and community they need to make smart choices in technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Giving Days organized by local communities are being adopted by many more communities than ever before and a stronger understanding how these efforts can help build the capacity of nonprofits to embrace social media and online giving, engage more donors, and raise awareness of charity giving. What does it look like?

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

On the one hand, that fervor helps us to keep going in the face of difficult challenges, like analyzing a huge data set. It helped me become aware of my unhealthy habits and pivoting to more healthy ones, despite what some vocal critics of fitness trackers say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

I’m giving my support as well as sharing my teaching and technology skills with Women’s Rights organizations in Ukraine. Local organizations are working to provide support, training and services to these women. The technology they learn will help them reach, support and advocate for more women. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

What is funder’s role to support good measurement? Here’s his response: The reality is funders are not supporting good measurement—at least not measurement done by the nonprofits to manage their effectiveness and to outcomes. Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 4, 2012. That says volumes. … Read More

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2012

Rachael Barrett of the Women’s Refugee Commission offered the following from the perspective of an organization that recently sought out capacity building funding: “My quick answer is yes … having organizational assumptions challenged by an unbiased outsider will hopefully help us make a more refined decision about next steps.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

New Guide: How To Engage Your Supporters with Social Listening Guest Post By Roz Lemieux. Whether the debate surrounds a keyword, organization or issue, understanding the dialogue can help you engage the people driving the conversation. Your People Are Talking. Are You Listening?” Get it here: https://attentive.ly/listen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2009

Luckily, the IT department at the Packard Foundation is very helpful and progressive IT department. In order for me complete the installation, I'd need administrator access which required calling the Help Desk. This is a question mostly for larger nonprofits with IT departments or support. Quizzes by Quibblo.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Scarcity, as the conference heard in the morning from Stephanie McAuliffe, can have a very positive effect — in her example producing a crucial collaboration to support post-abortion women in Pakistan. Scarcity can also drive people and organizations to mesh-based solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Alan Levine, AKA cogdog blog, is running a marathon to help support a cause he cares about - juvenile diabetes. So, I went over and pledged some support. Last year, Alan won the Beth 5.0 Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest and I donated 50 bucks to his cause. As I was casually planning the Beth 5.1

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2015

So, when this viral fundraising campaign – #BuyPens – to help Syrian refugee came across my radar, it immediately caught my attention. That’s where social media came in, with the Twitter followers tweeting to others to help Simonarson locate the pen seller with the #BuyPens hashtag, after two days of looking, they found him.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? Fundraising advisors encourage this support too. According to a new study that TCC Group is conducting of the Packard Foundation’s support for nonprofit capacity-building activities, the answer is no. What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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APRIL 26, 2015

Please donate to help Nepal’s Earthquake Victims now. ” I received several emails from charities that I already support that do work in the area. How do you decide which charity you will support for disaster relief? earthquake in Nepal. I donated to Save the Children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2011

Today is the last day and it is finally my turn! I’m fundraising for the Sharing Foundation , that supports children and young people in Cambodia. HELP ME SEND SOME CAMBODIAN KIDS TO COLLEGE! Won’t you consider a holiday donation to the Sharing Foundation to help support Keo Savon and others like her?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Sign this online letter of support to ensure that.NGO is maintained in the best interest of nonprofits worldwide. That’s my “cause,” if you will… to ensure that the new domain name extensions help organizations, individuals and companies alike market to their communities on a safe and trusted venue. Guest post by Thuy LeDinh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Zawadi shared her most recent crowdfunding campaign, probably one of the most successful in Kenya, raising over $71,000 in a couple of days, to help a 24 year old brain cancer patient Emmanuel Otieno (pictured above and known as Jadudi) to get surgery in India. Those people can provide “on-demand” help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2010

Together as a group we can make The Networked Nonprofit a best seller AND help kids in Cambodia! In addition, the guiding principles in the book will help your nonprofit transform itself into a networked nonprofit that can address many pressing social change issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

It also has a benefit of generating campaign content as well as documenting support for an issue. The concept is simple – ask supporters to take a photo of themselves with your campaign message and share it on social media channels. Their overall communications goals include: Engaging our supporters quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2012

We used this opportunity to support the work of MALDEF and reach Latinos with information about the ACA by tweeting out questions — in English — and links to our member stories related to our platform of issues, including the economy, early childhood education and health care, specifically the Affordable Care Act.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

I left inspired, yet I also felt there is still a lot of work we need to do to help our peers in volunteer coordination put these ideas into practice. The question is what can volunteer coordinators – those who are tasked with the work-a-day chores of volunteer engagement – do to help bring about this transformation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2016

I did make time to attend different sessions and walk through the exhibit hall, but one of the most exciting things I saw was the “ Gamestorm: Take on the Refugee Crisis ” organized by colleague Brian Reich for USA for UNHCR , the agency that helps and protects refugees and people displaced by violence, conflict and persecution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Note from Beth: I went to my first Games for Change Festival ten years ago, in 2005 and have been a fan and supporter ever since. ” The following games are expanding the reach of various nonprofits and helping them connect with audiences in meaningful ways. Kennedy (EMK) Institute to support it in educating the public about U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. But having a conversation with your supporters is only half the job. I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

helping Haiti -- from the charity: water offices, Monday from charity: water on Vimeo. The natural human urge is to do something to help. Britt Bravo has a terrific compilation of grassroots efforts underway to help Haiti. helping Haiti -- from the charity: water offices, Monday from charity: water on Vimeo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2010

By purchasing these necklaces as gifts for women in Silicon Valley, it provides support for women in Kenya. She hopes to start a micro enterprise with the quilts that can help support the program and the women – something very similar to Kazuri. Your turn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2020

We are grateful for the generosity and foresight of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in supporting this work. The field of AI4Giving is just beginning to take shape with promising new technology platforms helping nonprofits scale and improve their fundraising practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2009

And I knew, with absolute certainty that with the help of the travelblogging community, we would succeed. This year, we sold sponsorships to a number of travel based companies -- they were eager to get their brands in front of our community and we are so grateful for their support, they've given us an incredible head start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Whether it is cash donations or in-kind contributions, part of the holiday season, as a birthdway wish or just because it is important for us to support work that takes care of children in his birth country. Harry is not the only Cambodian adoptee who supports the Sharing Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Am I interacting with them and supporting their work? Reciprocity is the secret to building a strong network – and understanding who is paying attention can help you give back some love. Who is interacting with me and I have replied to me or given them some Twitter love? Want something free or very low cost?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One crucial aspect of empathetic leadership is willingness – a willingness to help employees through their personal issues, recognizing that work and personal lives are becoming more and more intertwined. Therefore, we need to recognize and respect this dynamic as we lead and support our teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

   In an email interview, Laura Zaks, Public Affairs Coordinator, shared with me this sad story of devastation and the urgent need for funds to help PROFAMIL resume services through a temporary static clinic and Mobile Health Units to deliver services in tent cities where displaced persons have gathered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising by Michael Hoffman. Adding video to your end-of-year online campaigns can help you achieve, and even exceed, your year-end fundraising goals. In this example, the video would be used to get Beth’s friends to donate to support her participation in the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

any help/ coverage/ support of this devastating fire at a digital divide-bridging nonprofit on Valencia Monday night would rock. Set up this Facebook Cause for the cool kids: [link] /causes/causes/73459 Donations accepted most directly at Paypal here: [link] Thank you for any support you can lend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

Sean takes a point of view: I think that technology and social media in particular is best used when it helps us more fully express those things that make us uniquely human. I look at what was being tweeted and the voice used (institutional versus personal versus a blend).

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