Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

I'm coming to Minnesota at the end of the month to give a keynote at Message+Medium+Mission Conference , nonprofit tech conference co-sponsored by the good folks at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits and MAP for Nonprofits. If you are planning on attending, I look forward to meeting you.

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CauseVox

MARCH 8, 2021

With nonprofits trying out virtual events for the first time in 2020, fundraisers were able to take away so many key insights about what worked (and what didn’t) when it came to pulling off a virtual fundraising event. In 2020, 84% of nonprofits had a virtual event, or were planning an upcoming one.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 25, 2012

Minnesota has enacted legislation to pilot the HuCap bond, in a program that will look at the “desirability of using state appropriation bonds to pay for certain services based on performance and outcomes for the people served” (Minn. In order to understand how the HuCap bond works, it is important to understand some bond basics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2008

I had the honor of delivering the keynote this morning at the Message + Medium + Mission Conference in Minnesota. A few minutes before speaking I remembered a Minnesota story about my early years as a executive director for a small organization and using social networking to get Garrison Keillor as our celebrity for a fundraiser.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 9, 2022

What obligations do white-led nonprofits hold for working with minority community groups and nonprofits in their communities? What does it look like to work within human services alongside members of minority communities to build better community? Steps to be taken and put into practice. Leaders and managers need to keep this in mind.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

JUNE 1, 2018

The ArcStone team originally sat down with MENTOR MN (formerly the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota – MPMN) at the beginning of 2016. We then began working with several other affiliates to adopt the new platform as well. The End Result. MPMN adopted the new MENTOR MN brand successfully and launched a brand-new WordPress website.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

” Ann brings with her more than 20 years of experience in business-to-business (B2B) marketing in the technology industry, including time spent working at a nonprofit organization. Bloomerang has also been named a “Best Place to Work in Indiana” for five consecutive years. Learn more about career opportunities at Bloomerang. .

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2012

Last year she changed her focus at NTEN to became our Research and Publications Director, and she’s already receiving huge honors for her work. This award is evidence that when the nonprofit community works together to support each other’s causes, we can achieve great things! Have more news to share? Or, are you planning to?

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Blue Fox

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Check out the The Exemption Test from University of Minnesota’s Office of Human Resources. You do important work and it’s not time to compromise the vital resources your community needs. You will also want to evaluate at your employees whose salaries border the new standard salary level. And they will thank you for it).

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Candid

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The commitment includes $70 million to UNICEF to boost access to vaccines and health supplies in vulnerable communities around the world and $80 million in support of the foundation's partners working with children to accelerate ongoing COVID-19 recovery, including BRAC. MacArthur Foundation announces 2021 fellows. and Catherine T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Here at GiveMN , we’ve harnessed the power of our networks to raise record amounts of money online for nonprofits in Minnesota and engage record numbers of people in an annual, one-day giving event— Give to the Max Day. All told, Minnesota nonprofits collectively raised $10,041,021 in one incredible day.

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CauseVox

MAY 6, 2021

Summit Assistance Dogs’s short but powerful receipt works to effectively tie their donor’s gift to impact and their organization’s mission, helping to show donor’s the importance of their gift. Example #3: Autism Society of Minnesota’s ‘Brunch @ Home’ Virtual Event Donation Receipt.

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CauseVox

JUNE 29, 2022

It doesn’t matter how many people you get to click through your emails or social media posts; if your donation page doesn’t convert, you won’t see any payoff from that hard work. Luckily it doesn’t take too much time or work to create a donation experience that captures your donor’s attention and brings in increased donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

GiveMN has been hosting their giving day , Give to the Max Day for the past few years and working as a peer coach. As part of the work we’re doing together, participants share a reflection of what worked and what they learned from their giving day. We are now aware of the issue and are working to resolve it.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

Pride Month is a great time to celebrate and reflect on the work activists and nonprofit organizations are doing to support the LGBTQ+ community. Note : If your organization doesn’t work with this population, please check out the many other funder lists I’ve created. Funding Priority: LGBTQ+. Elton John AIDS Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Nevertheless, we believe that our efforts to help Minnesota nonprofits and schools become “Networked Nonprofits,” to nurture social media usage and provide tools for integrating social media, have been key to driving the amazing results we saw again this year. Internal social media coordination, organization and planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

I’m in Minnesota for the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference where I am doing a plenary session on Saturday morning and two breakout sessions. Social media and working online doesn’t have to be overwhelming; you can take back control.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

Helen Keller, who worked for AFB for many years, was on the original award board for its first twenty years, starting in 1937. And second, Donna McNear, the itinerant teacher of the visually impaired from Minnesota, who kept telling me that I had to go to Washington and talk to the Department of Education.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 29, 2021

A nonprofit has many facets of the organization to consider when starting DEI work, including the board, staffing, programs, and how it connects to the greater community. These five actions will get your nonprofit started, or help to transition into DEI work. Build your DEI task force. Engage with a DEI professional.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Matt’s past work includes fundraising for the University of the Arts, Ursinus College, University of Cincinnati and the Boy Scouts of America. Mary’s University of Minnesota. Once you’ve greeted volunteers and given them a tour, you still can’t leave them to their new work. Complete the paperwork. That’s okay.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 4, 2010

Great to see two social enterprise bloggers, Kylie Eastley of Tasmania and Tristan Pollock from Minnesota, won Halle Tecco's contest on Huffington Post to go to the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit later this month in San Francisco. Bill Strathmann of Network for Good will be our next Chair: be sure to come to SF to cheer him on!

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

Operations at Headwaters Foundation for Justice , a foundation that invests in grassroots organizations across Minnesota, were humming along well. Finance can offer a wealth of information to help nonprofit teams work better and drive more impact. Then 2020 happened and community needs spiked.

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Forum One

JANUARY 23, 2014

Here at Forum One we’ve worked on many multilingual sites (including Spanish, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Kurdish, and Chinese). Our recent work with a number of states (California, New York, Minnesota) has brought us face to face with an uncomfortable fact: state websites are generally English-only.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Optimizing Your Communications for Mobile | Minnesota Council of Nonprofits (Free). Saint Paul, Minnesota: Gearing Up for Give to the Max Day | Minnesota Council of Nonprofits (Free). Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group/Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 24, 2022

So when their day job employer, the Autism Society of Minnesota (AuSM), decided to start using CauseVox for their peer-to-peer fundraising, Zephyr was all in. As a fundraiser and a marketer, your work tends to overlap. When it came to working on Steps for Autism, their marketing skills played a huge role.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Each person on your team needs an education plan that becomes part of their ongoing performance evaluation, including expectations of work changes and improvement after their training. However, while success can be credited to hard work, great staff, and good training, failure can’t be blamed on bad training alone.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2017

How does the deduction work? in organizational sociology at the University of Minnesota with a study of the causes of nonprofit organization closure. Kudos to Georgia Congressman John Lewis for advancing a concurrent resolution back in March to recognize the centenary of the charitable deduction. Hager earned his Ph.D.

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CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2021

You can hire freelancers to do social media work at a variety of price points. Business Pages have to work hard to show up in the feeds of their followers It can be difficult to build engagement through a Business Page. Minnesota Cosplayers is another example. This is a public group.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 29, 2018

Create Clear Job Descriptions – State the title of the position, what job duties are included, what type of environment volunteers will be working in, and the name of the person they report to. It could be as simple as showing a volunteer the work space and making introductions. Onboarding does not have to be extensive or cumbersome.

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NetWits

MARCH 8, 2012

Giving Day’s) like those held in Minnesota, Colorado, Pittsburgh, Ohio and Texas have raised tens of millions of dollars and generated significant publicity for their nonprofit communities. Based on the data below the strategy worked. Which is why Giving Day’s like Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington deserve a closer look.

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CauseVox

JUNE 28, 2021

Obviously this event won’t work in warmer climates, but if you’re somewhere with distinct seasons, all you have to do is find a lake that will let you host your event. You’ve most likely already done some form of live streaming in your work in the past year or two. Yes, people will jump into ice cold water for your cause!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

PCs for People is a large nonprofit refurbishment program headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The goal is to receive relatively recent vintage, retired commercial IT equipment from companies and government agencies in Minnesota. PCs for People works with over 400 companies to offer a secure end-of-life asset management service.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Knowing that your food service operation meets the highest standards for cleanliness, or that you source your foods from local providers as much as possible helps your volunteer tell your story to their friends, family, and work colleagues. All of the above works well for both program volunteers, and fundraising volunteers.

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Forum One

JANUARY 23, 2014

Here at Forum One we’ve worked on many multilingual sites (including Spanish, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Kurdish, and Chinese). Our recent work with a number of states (California, New York, Minnesota) has brought us face to face with an uncomfortable fact: state websites are generally English-only.

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2021

For example, if you work with an animal nonprofit and rescue stray animals off the street, you may sometimes take in animals in pretty awful shape. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Minnesota does a great job with auction item reveals. Nonprofit work is hard and definitely isn’t always glamorous. The BIG announcement.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2015

Minneapolis, Minnesota: NPtech Give and Take. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Maximizing Your Nonprofit AdWords. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Design for the Non-Designer | MCN Lunchtime Communications Group. Kansas City, Missouri: What Works In Social Media and Email Marketing for Nonprofits. Wednesday, June 3, 2015.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

Operations at Headwaters Foundation for Justice , a foundation that invests in grassroots organizations across Minnesota, were humming along well. Finance can offer a wealth of information to help nonprofit teams work better and drive more impact. Then 2020 happened and community needs spiked.

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