Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

First, no trains, buses, or planes moved to or from New York City. We turned on CNN and watched together as scenes from New Jersey and New York flashed across the screen. Up and down the nation’s most densely populated corridor it caused damage currently estimated at $50 billion.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Drawing national attention to an important issue (and a good bit of recognition for your organization the process). Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. Building local chapters. Connecting and enriching a national movement. Schedule local events in advance along your road trip route. Raising funds.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Contact Local Media. While many organizations strive to have their events covered by national outlets like the Today Show or the New York Times, Krista encourages event planners to not overlook local newspapers and television and radio stations. This is a lot more enticing to journalists.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

SOS Children’s Villages Illinois acquired 75% of their new donors for the entire year with their year-end peer-to-peer fundraising campaign. Other Examples: An Annual Giving Campaign, like National Center for Youth Law did $10k for a new Alzheimer’s research project Raise $25,000 to fill a new school library.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As a proof of concept, we took the RSS feed of the New York Times and filtered it for keywords related to her organization’s areas of interests, I think we used Yahoo Pipes to filter, it might have been FeedRinse.com, but that’s not hard to do in many different ways. That journalist will love you for it.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is the only national conference expressly designed to prepare 400+ college students for a career in the social sector. NYSSCPA / New York, NY / $385. Impact National Conference / Amherst, MA / Less than $200. InnovationEnterprise / New York, NY / $1,495. Leadership.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2016

One of my core values, both personally and professionally, is to give back to my local community. One of those organizations is the YWCA of the City of New York (YW), a nonprofit organization that offers job training, daycare, and after-school programs to New York City women and their families.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

David is a journalist turned entrepreneur who has written for Wired , Seed , Columbia Journalism Review and The New York Times. It's easier for people to get really passionate about national issues, but local issues are just as important. Obviously, local civic journalism is incredibly important to me.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

State/Local / #MCNAC16 / @SmartNonprofits. State/Local. Affect is a new community event highlighting the diversity of work and design behind social change. Affect is a new community event highlighting the diversity of work and design behind social change. State/Local / #MadisonNonprofitDay / @nonprofitday.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

Find the European Court of Justice press release here. Team Confufish Royale from Australia developed an app called Foodbank Local that allows businesses to easily donate excess food. The New York City-based nonprofit Spare Change is developing a smartphone app that will soon launch. Here in the U.S.,

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

Earned media is when you get press or coverage by somebody else. This is a campaign for an organization called the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice. This is an organization called Math for America and they have a program that is a fellowship program for public-school math and science teachers in New York City.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

A month after the story was published, an email arrived from a writer at the New York Times who had discovered our feature and wanted to write it up. The combination of traditional media, social media, and mobilizing the local community helped to save their town's post office. I learned a few things from this experience.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

So that means that I sat five hours for a really, really long multiple-choice test, and have a whole bunch of credentials that say I get national certification for doing this. And I’ve just seen we range from Florida to Alaska, California, Indiana, New York, Canada. And I know some of my clients are very local.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So if you treat all your actions as if I wouldn’t want this on Twitter, or the front page of “The New York Times,” then that’s a pretty good way to behave in life. . Local university, my wife was working there as a major gift person. So respect is earned. And one of. . Steven: What a great argument. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Follow and study the National Wildlife Federation , Humane Society of the United States, Human Rights Campaign , Greenpeace , and the American Red Cross. Claim your Google+ Local Page. ?

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

That’s why we empower local leaders to build a strong movement for equality that secures critical grassroots wins at every level. Make the Road New York. United We Dream is the largest immigrant youth-led organization in the nation. National Immigration Law Center. National Disability Rights Network.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Follow and study the National Wildlife Federation , Humane Society of the United States, Human Rights Campaign , Greenpeace , and the American Red Cross. Claim your Google+ Local Page.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. an hour, and a national survey of Instacart workers found average wages (before expenses) of just $9.50 Platform Cooperativism.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

This project will tackle big questions such as: What are the most pressing human rights problems in our world? When I returned to the US, I founded the USA chapter in New York City with long-time Never Again member, Marian Hodgkin from the UK. The next big project on the horizon is working on AIUSA’s next strategic plan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think what makes us unique is that we are really investing in women's leadership and women's creativity in developing local solutions to some of the world's most challenging problems. I think my comment in The Nation was really more about that. It works in over 160 countries around the world.

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