Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Nonprofit leaders, impact investors, and philanthropists from all over the world gathered in San Francisco's Fort Mason Center this week for SOCAP12. Sachs also wrote Winning the Story Wars , a book about how nonprofits and other organizations for social good can use storytelling to capture an audience.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. Music Lessons and Activities for Your Digital Classroom. 5 Ways to Organize. If your organization has constituent communications segregated through different departments (e.g., Mastering an analytic approach to strategy and planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

But he had help from another free agent, Corey Griffen , a management consultant who organized the fundraiser. But, there was not a central coordinating organization or purpose for this celebrity participation, it was self-organizing. 2) Playing on Memes: The campaign took advantage of social media narcissism for a good cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The program is specially design to leverage the power of technology in supporting women’s rights and social justice leaders and organizations to advance their work and impact. The participants represent a diverse cohort of 41 women’s rights and social justice leaders from 18 organizations from 11 states across the country.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. But, despite these numbers, for most organizations and causes raising money via social media is still a hard thing to do. Its seven other backers include Yahoo!,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

James Nickerson , Social Media Strategist, San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. Each person kicked it off with their favorite poem that related to their lessons learned. Matt gave great advice about how to get started with big listening for small organizations. kanter best rhyming intro ever. ” Yes!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

More than 20 NetSquared-affiliated organizers will be at the conference (look for the people wearing NetSquared pins.) The NetSquared regional ambassadors will also be on-site sharing the joy of being a NetSquared organizer and participating in the fun. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Today, we want to introduce you to Ari Gluck, Director of IT, Children''s Council of San Francisco. What is your organization''s mission? There were two lessons in particular, that I needed to learn, or be reminded of. Was the 14LCS a transformative experience for you?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Washington, DC: Lessons Learned, Online Learning for Social Change. San Francisco, California: Discounted Tickets for Impact Investing: Business Innovation Conversation II. San Francisco, California: Discounted Tickets for Impact Investing: Business Innovation Conversation II. Tuesday, September 23, 2014.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2013

Whether you're thinking about making some small enhancements to your organization's website or planning a complete redesign, you'll find plenty of useful information and tips from TechSoup and our global partners. TechSoup Canada offers four points to consider when planning your organization's website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

I believe that, too, and I love working for an organization — Common Sense Media , an independent nonprofit — that’s dedicated to preparing kids to make the most of the incredible opportunities this networked culture provides us, while overcoming its potential pitfalls. Is it about keeping students safe? Contact Emily.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2012

The May edition of the San Francisco Online Community Meetup welcomed Jeff Elder , Social Media Director at Storify. Elder's talk, What to Do When Your Community Wants to Kill You , drew from the lessons he has learned facing angry communities. Your organization can only be prepared for what's ahead by moving forward.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 25, 2015

It’s a short, two hour flight from San Francisco and the Silicon Valley. Engaging these new, different, entrepreneurial organizations requires a new kind of thinking. For those organizations destined to grow, that 1% can become an amazing philanthropic gift. She will be speaking at Cause Camp this April!

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

What they're doing, and how they're doing it, are great lessons for our sector. In San Francisco, datasf.org aggregates raw data from over 140 city departments, making it available to any member of the public, for any reason. San Francisco and Washington DC are collaborating around API accessiblity for their 311 phone lines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Today, I had the pleasure of doing a little planning for March, 2012 bootcamps in country with the strategic social media adviser from Jordan, Rami Al-Karmi and Heather Ramsey at IIE in San Francisco as well as Craig Newmark and Barry Newstead from Wikimedia. Stay tuned … Video and Storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

QR codes are popping up in school lesson plans, like this arts lesson plan. QR codes hold potential for arts organizations. Does the use of QR codes help save your organization printing costs? Joe Waters shares an example used for Cause Marketing. QR Codes: fab or a fad for Museums?

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2015

Speaking of ebooks, Cloud for Good just released a new eBook to help organizations better implement technology, which you can download for free. Prichard Communications shares 4 Lessons on Digital Strategy I Learned From Street Outreach. Turns out, a classic 1980''s movie also contains lessons for nonprofits!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. ” Content curation is sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network.

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AFP Blog

MAY 29, 2009

O'Brien: Lessons on innovation from nonprofits - San Jose Mercury News: "Those lessons were on display last week when I stopped by the annual NetSquared conference at the Cisco Systems campus.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

Your NetSquared organizers are gearing up for Social Media September , a month of social media for social good -themed events. As a warm-up our organizers in Manchester and Cambridge are holding surgeries this August. Taipei, Taiwan: PC / Web site information security: proposal for non-profit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2012

To hear how starting in 2004, this well-respected but relatively small organization suddenly found itself at the forefront of the movement for marriage equality. There’s another reason organizations may be hesitant to invest in leadership: it means having to actually admit you are facing challenges. We were just doing the work.”.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In September, the San Francisco Online Community Meetup welcomed Cara Jones , founder of Storytellers for Good , and JD Lasica , chief strategist at Socialbrite. Bonus tip) Teach a lesson. Would-be storytellers who don’t know where to begin can start by simply telling stories about their organization and its cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Provide digital infrastructure to the 150 – 250 organizations through a public-private partnership with Microsoft. Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. We created a network map.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

This is why the first lesson we tell nonprofits is to examine the nonprofit landscape.). In what ways are the two organizations similar? In a technical merger, both nonprofit boards agree to dissolve and then form a new organization. Then the surviving board votes to accept the assets from the dissolved organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

It was inspired by a conversation we had during the planning sessions in San Francisco in January about whether or not there was an Arabic word for Nerd (there isn’t). His organization’s name, Shabakat , translates into the word “network.&#. They’ve simplified and focused on what they do best.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

According to the San Francisco Board of Education Commissioner, there are over 75 million unemployed youth between the ages of 15-24 and that there are twice as many unemployed young people than adults. The good news is that digital literacy is becoming part of lesson plans for K-12 students in public schools.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2010

Ashley Rowe: The first event right after that, where we decided to go and sell, was San Francisco Pride. I want to hear about why you did that, how you organized it, and tips you might have for other people who hear that and think, "That's cool! CW: We have participated in the San Francisco Bake Sale for the past several sales.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

2019 Nonprofit Organizations Institute. 2019 Nonprofit Organizations Institute. USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / TBD. Nonprofit organizations have moved well past the time when technology and data were treated as standalone entities. Fundraising & Grants/ @CASEAdvance. Jan 16 - 19.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

We focus on political education and organizer skills trainings, and we definitely think it is critical to see the fusion of those two things. We work with a lot of young organizers as well as elder organizers, and we have about seven different programs to speak to that fusion. How did you get involved with this kind of work?

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 14, 2024

million people watched the Kansas City Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers in February, making it the most-watched telecast in history. However, recruiting and managing volunteers can be tedious, especially for smaller organizations. Also, look at the other ways the volunteer engages with your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Grantees will engage in peer discussions about integrating social media effectively into their communications strategies and will learn from each other – from challenges and missteps as much as from accomplishments and wins – so success means organizations sharing both. Grantee organizations will measure what matters.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Their clients include companies like Blue Bottle Coffee , Numi Organic Tea , Premier Organics , and Revolution Foods. Jose Corona: Inner City Advisors is an organization here in Oakland that was founded in 1996 by Professor Michael Porter at Harvard Business School. You can also listen to our conversation on iTunes.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

What are some of the ways that you saw organizations addressing this mobility of donors and prospects? Take San Francisco: there actually is a stable population of people who built their careers in Silicon Valley. I don’t think the lesson is that you have to have a huge fancy party in the atrium to cultivate new donors.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The San Francisco Bay Area has earthquakes, and our old data center was in a similar earthquake zone to our main offices here in San Francisco. An earthquake that interrupted services in San Francisco might also have affected our old data center south of the city. Why We Moved. What We Moved. For how long?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

But it turns out hackerspaces are the next step in the evolution of the DIY/maker movement--physical member organizations for people who like to mess around with electronics. Mitch Altman, one of the founders of the San Francisco-based Noisebridge , was quoted in Wired as saying: "In our society there's a real dearth of community.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2015

Over the last decade, Eli has been a volunteer manager, an event organizer, a digital campaigner, and a community manager. This means there's no single meeting time that will work for all the NetSquared organizers. He explains it some in his Netsquared blog post, Why I Became a NetSquared Organizer. What Makes Eli Tick.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Welcome to the Big Vision podcast where we talk with individuals and organizations who are creating positive change. Urban Sprouts is a school gardening program that serves low-income youth from San Fransico's underserved neighborhoods. Now, here's my interview with Abby Rosenheck, founder and Executive Director of Urban Sprouts.

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