Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I don’t give to people who can’t even tell if they’re boys or girls,” an irate long-time donor said before slamming down the phone. The people deeply invested in achieving social justice often lack the financial resources to fund their mission because of the systemic barriers they face. Pearls are not purse strings.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Best Friends has introduced the Invisible Dog Campaign , a nod to the invisible dog leash from the ‘70s and ‘80s. Invisible dogs” refer to the forgotten pets found in city shelters that face tremendous odds to get adopted. Social media is all the rage, but does it actually help create real change in the world?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2010

Mark Horvarth (who made a brief appearance in my video from yesterday ) has caught a lot of attention with his alluringly simple idea: record homeless people telling their stories and publish them on the internet. His project InvidiblePeople.tv won a Pepsi Refresh grant and has also been supported by the likes of Hanes and Ford.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

On one hand, I’m concerned about its impact on society—will people lose touch with reality? On the other hand, can we use it to bring people closer to a reality that broadens their perspectives and fosters empathy?” – Corey Jones, Creative Director “Apple has delivered the best amusement ride or 3D movie I’ve ever seen.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

We’ve teamed up with Mifos , The Community for Open Source Microfinance , an open source platform currently being used in 20 countries to deliver financial services to more than a million people and with HP Social Innovation, a Random Hacks of Kindness core partner as well as our own.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 17, 2024

2024 People: We can just use the free GPT tools to create and edit our documents. 2003 People: We can just upload all these party pictures to Facebook for fun. 1990 People: The ocean is huge and can just swallow all this plastic. Challenge : What is the common thread between these stories?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Stories also need to connect, inspire and motivate people to act. People want to know and see the impact of their donations. It is no secret that people tend to put off doing something important until the last minute. When people feel a sense of urgency, they are more prone to act on behalf of a cause. Sense of urgency.

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Media Cause

MAY 20, 2021

Symbols have always been a way for people to communicate. As designers, we use symbols to communicate complex subjects, change perception, and unify people around a specific cause. The symbol was created as a way to raise awareness around accessibility, and help people living with disabilities better navigate their surroundings.

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M+R

JUNE 10, 2021

From Apple’s official announcement : “In the Mail app, Mail Privacy Protection stops senders from using invisible pixels to collect information about the user. Apple recently made an announcement about upcoming privacy changes to their products that could have a major effect on how nonprofits do email work. .

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The problem many nonprofits run into, causing them to call email marketing’s effectiveness into question, is they are unable to build a robust email list, filled with the email addresses of people who will be receptive to their message. These are the same people who might not mind receiving the occasional email from your nonprofit.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2022

There are many tools available to help people become aware of their biases. One easy read for quick awareness is Peggy McIntosh’s " White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack." In general, people feel more comfortable working with others like themselves. Homogeneous groups tend to be confident in the work they produce.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

If you’re a social person, it means you like to spend time with other people. But this definition conflicts with today’s concept of social networking, in which we interact primarily with screens rather than with people." The folks at Best Friends Animal Society would answer with a resounding yes!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

The new Myspace missed an opportunity to allow people and brands who once loved Myspace to log back in and tap into an online community that they spent years building – and by default, become the new Myspace’s greatest advocates.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 31, 2022

For the longest time, I could not speak of trans within the context of my identity because of the terror in the terrains between invisibility and visibility. How do I explain ‘trans’ to the people around me? Learn more about the work that Mama Cash does to support the rights of girls, women, intersex people, and trans people.

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Candid

MAY 19, 2021

Although much has changed since I wrote my last article promoting May is Mental Health Awareness Month , the country is still dealing with many of the same issues that threaten the mental health of too many people. They stand in the gap to help people and communities thrive before, during, and after crises.

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Bloomerang

JULY 8, 2021

Do enough people outside of your organization know what its main contribution is to this world? This is a great place to start when tackling the invisible status quo perception barrier which surrounds our organizations. What your work is leading towards? We’re inside – it’s clear to us, but what does the world think?

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Whole Whale

JUNE 29, 2022

Many people will be involved in creating content and it is important to have a guide to ensure consistency. Explaining why certain language choices are important: It’s not enough to just tell people what language to use – it’s important to explain why certain language choices are important.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2015

Mark Horvath of Invisible People. Claire Kerr of FrontStream. 15NTC Claire Kerr (@snotforprofit) of FrontStream. A video posted by Nonprofit Organizations (@nonprofitorgs) on Mar 6, 2015 at 8:20am PST. 15NTC Mark Horvath of @InvisiblePeople A video posted by Nonprofit Organizations (@nonprofitorgs) on Mar 6, 2015 at 8:10am PST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

On Tuesday, right before the KONY video exploded on the mainstreams and went viral online, my 6th grade son came home from school and announced, ”Did you know that there are more people on Facebook today compared to the number of people on the planet ten years ago? I immediately asked him how do you know that?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 7, 2022

It follows the lives of multiple people in a New York City that has changed a lot, but in some ways hasn’t changed at all. Description from Publisher: There is a world alongside ours — vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. New York 2140. New York 2140. The Fifth Season.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Our Human Rights team specializes in counting the uncounted: shining a light on the numbers of people who have disappeared or have died who often do not show up in official accounts. This report provides invaluable estimates of the number of invisible victims. Just this week, we released a new study on the Colombian state of Casanare.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2013

Bookshare As followers of this blog know, Benetech's largest social enterprise is the Bookshare online library for people with print disabilities. As a result, strong DRM has the unintended effect of preventing people with disabilities from reading the text that they are entitled to. What is it and why is it important?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The Cute Dog Theory or more precisely the Cute Animal Theory states that including cute animals in your social media content inspires more people to share the content. If don’t believe that is true, check out this YouTube video from VW of dogs barking the theme from Star Wars as a Superbowl Teaser.

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Care2

JANUARY 21, 2013

According to YouTube, 100 million people either like, share, or comment on videos every week. Are people who like or comment on these videos signing up for organization’s enewsletters, are they donating money, volunteering, taking an advocacy action? And according the Nonprofit Times, about 3.5M

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Care2

MARCH 12, 2012

The 30-minute “Kony 2012” video produced by the nonprofit Invisible Children , which generated over 70M views on YouTube over the past week, has caused a firestorm in the nonprofit community. The LRA are responsible for displacing 2M people since their rebellion began in 1986. Invisible Children is hoping to change that.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 7, 2023

If a website is accessible, it means that it was built and designed for all people to use it. Websites are a tool for people to find information, learn, read the news, donate to causes that matter to them, shop, and more. Other tools people may rely on are closed-captioning and touch screens.

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 15, 2021

If you have to attend a function, you might as well go with people you know and respect. About the Author: Jennifer Schaupp often sends in her invisible twin to network for her. For example, do you want to meet a particular person in your field or find new hires for your organization? She writes for New Place Collaborations.

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Media Cause

JUNE 21, 2022

Some of the major features introduced included: Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) : This feature, which turned heads at many big companies, stops senders from adding invisible pixels to the emails they send, which stops companies from seeing when an email is opened and masks IP addresses. Next, in June 2021, Apple released iOS 15.

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NetWits

MARCH 11, 2012

More recently they decided to harness the power of the web and content marketing by allowing people to follow the life of their 2012 national ambassador. CONTENT MARKETING PRO TIP : Allow the people you impact to tell their story through creating digital assets. Best Friends – Harness the power of user generated content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Christian Canter, Shelter Network, and Mark Horvath, Invisible People TV. With his site, WeAreVisible , he is helping homeless people gain the social media skills to connect with others and help them improve their situation. Mark is distributing cards about WeAreVisible that includes examples of tweets from homeless people.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 23, 2014

In honor of this month’s Evaluation theme and the people who made it happen, here is what evaluators are thinking when they shop. What people in various countries are thinking when they think of corporations. You can make the visible invisible with this cloak of mirrors. Proprioception : a whole new way of moving.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Apple’s statement on the changes is, “In the Mail app, Mail Privacy Protection stops senders from using invisible pixels to collect information about the user. From what we know of the changes so far, the biggest impacts will be on open rate statistics and the ability to A/B test subject lines and preheader text. Email Opens + User IPs.

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2021

On March 16, 2021, eight people were murdered in Atlanta. This number is consistent with research showing that the model minority myth has resulted in AAPI struggles being largely invisible and/or overlooked in the U.S. grants/pledges coded with “People of Asian descent” as a recipient population, and the U.S.

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Qgiv

MARCH 9, 2022

People often ask, “What’s the best way to end homelessness?” Giving donors and participants a way to engage from home can open your event up to a lot more people and spread awareness of the issues even further! Part of how Invisible People engages supporters is through video testimonials. Fact Sheets.

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VisionLink

MARCH 15, 2013

System Architecture The most important--and yet most invisible, part of server stability are the decisions made by our IT professionals. Great people working with great customers makes it possible to deploy stable servers, and to solve proble ms very quickly when they do arise.

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John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Some have about minor incidents but like an iceberg, the visible is dwarfed by the invisible. For a small organization of under 10 people, lets say $15,000. Some people use social media and many do not. Facebook lying about its numbers, video views and sharing users personal data are turning people off.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

This reality changed when Frank found out about Benetech’s Bookshare accessible digital library for people with print disabilities. Few were available, and he had trouble with the ones that were: they’d often be in a format that didn’t work well with his voice recognition software. And the best part?

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