Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2015

These potential donors are teens (and pre-teens) with a passion for social change and who grew up not knowing what it was like to not to have a cell phone or be connected to Facebook. Many nonprofit fundraisers know about and have specific strategies to reach, cultivate, and solicit baby boom donors, Gen X donors, and Gen Y donors.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

We thought so, so we put together a short list of items we felt could trigger meaningful conversations just in time for end-of-year reflection and 2019 planning. . As connections increase, it becomes essential for organizations to have a holistic view of all of their activities. Takeaway #1: Think holistically about your program .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

And for that, I will be eternally grateful to MySpace and the “Nonprofit Organizations&# MySpace community. It’s hard to explain to those who don’t use MySpace, but the “Nonprofit Organizations&# brand would not be what it is today had I attempted to start it on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

A fundraising email is not the right place to thank Board members, reflect on events that already happened, spotlight a wonderful volunteer, or highlight a major donor. Simply put, focus on the people whose lives are made better by your organization. How is our organization responding to this need? Those can go in a newsletter.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning can help your organization meet challenges effectively and take advantage of new opportunities. Organizations that do have a strategic plan continually express the advantages that this type of preparation gives them. Generally, this model follows these steps: Define your organization’s mission and goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

KD and I took frameworks from the book – the Data-Informed Nonprofit (Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Assessment) and 7 Steps of Measurement and then had David and Carie share how they have applied these to their organization’s measurement. Well, the purpose of the video was to get teens to donate used sports equipment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Genuine: It reflects their character, behavior, values, and vision. He shares photos and reflections from business trips. Take for example this shot of fireworks and the accompanying reflection. This shot is from a program for teens that the met sponsors, #metteens. Here’s what I discovered: Genuine.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Many organizations, including schools, use a peer-to-peer platform to create personal fundraising pages for school staff and board members. For older age groups, convert the readathon goal to be less about books read, but pages read with donations for every hundred pages for teens. 5K/10K Race. DIY fundraising pages. Final thoughts.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Your organization serves and supports the challenges real people face, so why wouldn’t your creative reflect those people? Video: Content that focuses on the individual, not the organization. Feature real people. Messaging: Speaks to how the individual is specifically affected.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

For nearly 50 years, the Federal Poverty Limit (FPL) has been the standard measure used by governments and nonprofit organizations serving low income individuals and families to determine eligibility for anti-poverty programs. The FPL for a family of three is $19,090, regardless of whether those three people are adults, teen-agers or infants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

To avoid getting seduced by “ shiny object syndrome &# get educated about Mobile Campaign Basics for Nonprofits and spend some time reflecting those strategic questions. Qwerty Monsters are teens, age 13-17, who have gone mad for texting on their mobile phones. But many smaller organizations don’t.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 16, 2014

As I prepped for what I wanted to say to the next graduating class of Public Allies Arizona, I took a queue from my own days as an ally and reflected. It was no frills; when my sisters & I suffered our teen angst-y issues or had drama there were no ‘ Full House ’ type moments. Ouch, burn. And there’s the warmth.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2015

The sessions are themed around the mission or focus of the organization (youth, food rescue, animal welfare, and so on), and the guests are experts within their respective fields. In a moderated discussion, the guests list problems that arise in the day-to-day operations of their organizations and brainstorm ways technology might solve them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

While being CEO is her "job", the organization and it's mission is her passion. The "extraordinary" thing Terri has done to change the world is the successful implementation of a mentoring program called Stand and Deliver for teens in the challenged community of Lawrence, MA. But in my personal life, my wife constantly wows me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

" Taking it a little deeper, organizations should not go in the other direction - and be strategic in friending people. According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

By the time my mom was at the Bay Area Discovery Museum, I was in my late teens/twenties, and I started to know the board socially, including Bob Fisher, who is now very involved with SFMOMA. What are some of the ways that you saw organizations addressing this mobility of donors and prospects? I’ve known Bob for 15 years now.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Traveling Postcards is a humanitarian organization that is gathering women’s voices worldwide, and creating a traveling collection of visual and written wisdom that so many women hold in their hearts. Our grassroots campaign involves all ages from teens to seniors. How does Traveling Postcards work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

We decided to start with teen girls, ninth through twelfth grade, and with the notion that that's when as a young girl we're beginning to make important decisions about college, about life steps, and about goals. Do you have any favorite Tranquil Teens success stories? We came up with our first program. Are you writing in your journal?"

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

As a non-profit organization, our work with the TRC and our statistical report was made possible through the support of United States Department of State Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) and several other donors, which are listed in our report. Liberian children.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Unsurprisingly, some of my favorite museums are small, funky places run by iconoclasts—but that’s not useful to most professionals who work for organizations in which they have little control over size or leadership matters. What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? It’s nice to have both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

" He said that MacArthur hopes to make investments to help nonprofits and civil society organizations address serious issues. What I'm seeing - companies and organizations that come in and are successful are those that are able to contribute something to the world itself. Teen Listening Party and Global Kids coverage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

" She is hoping to make connections with organizations and individuals who are running programs based in Afghanistan. She suggests that if organizations are targeting young people, particularly teens and 20 somethings that platforms like Myspace can be a good tool. I'll be in Afghanistan through part of August."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. The Walker Art Center is turning its teen website over to the teens. Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

She said it can happen in one of two ways—either the organization is small enough that no one will notice, or has a director with such strong vision they can charm and fund the pants off of a new idea. If you search the web for the organization, you won’t get to some academic-looking page in soft blues and statistics. They play sports.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

They were both commissioned by organizations whose purpose is to support museums and libraries. They reflect individual voices and stories, and the more diverse voices are engaged, the more trustworthy a source is as a true "voice of the people." I'm reading a book of essays about how to teach written by teens. Be personal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Her writing is reflective and brilliant. Non-Profit Chas shares his experiences as he helps take a small non-profit organization to the next level. " I had the pleasure of interviewing him about his he formed his organization. Holy Meatballs is Global Kids project blog - I've pointed to the posts by teens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2012

Note From Beth: One of the principles in my book, The Networked Nonprofit, was that networked nonprofits consider people and organizations as part of their networks to make change. Do as much research on an organization, its history and your organization’s history with that organization before you reach out to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2015

Dosomething.org knows that mistakes happen, but also knows how as an organization to transform mistakes into organizational learning that leads to better results in a program. ” Earlier this month the Chronicle of Philanthropy wrote about how the organization corrected a mistake with a text messaging campaign.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Let''s say you work at an organization that mostly caters to a middle and upper-class, white audience. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Many YES teens don''t come in with confidence about their own abilities.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

We also like to believe she was one of the first proponents of the "shine theory" with her quote, " There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ". Explore the work of organizations like the National Geographic Society , Audubon , and The Mars Generation - their impact is out of this world.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. Articulate what you can do for your organization, not what you can do generally. I also found that blogging was a great outlet for the side of me that missed my previous life as a poet.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Let's say you work at an organization that mostly caters to a middle and upper-class, white audience. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Many YES teens don't come in with confidence about their own abilities.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

But I spend most of my time as a trainer and a strategist as a coach and I help organizations and the people that lead them, just like you, grow your skills, your teams, and your results. Oh, no business increased, coaching increased, the amount of change management exercises I had to take organizations through increased.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

If you think a web overhaul might make sense for your organization, make sure you have the right tools on hand to start making improvements yourself—namely, a strong website builder and nonprofit-specific web development support. On every page of their site, you’ll quickly see just how much of an impact this organization has!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

The exhibition is far from perfect, but it's a big step towards reflecting the "thriving, central gathering place" of our strategic vision. We invited museum members and a few community members/organizations to create small exhibition components about unique love experiences with family, friends, teammates, romantic partners, and pets.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Nearly 70% of users are under 35 , and 72% of teens use Instagram. As above, your content should be visually focused, so unique, high-quality imagery that reflects your nonprofit’s values and branding is essential. You can read more about why you should use Instagram Business on the Constant Contact blog. What and when should I post?

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