Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

She talked about their new initiative Video Volunteers and offered some great tips about effective nonprofit videos. It's one-minute and she explains the new video volunteers program and shares the secret sauce for success for videos on YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2010

Here's some specific examples of how, if you're a techie, you can find ways to donate your technical expertise or time to Haiti or some of the many ways techies are helping out: The Crisis Commons facilitates partnerships and maintains a network of technology volunteers to respond to specific needs in times of crisis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

Cine Institute , an organization that provides Haitian youth with film education, is located a block from an orphanage built by Luke Montgomery, co-founder of WeCanBuildanOrphanage.com , an interactive charity building a home, clinic and school for AIDS orphans in Haiti. An Orphanage Destroyed, Children Still Alive. Crisis Camps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2009

I think it is more than just having self-organizing values embedded in the way the tool works. I think these are four qualities to look for: Network: This is a collection of people and organizations that linked together. It's your professional social network or a network of organizations or typically both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

We need volunteers to review the wiki section by section and make sure that there are resources collected for Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. If you come across any useful Twitter accounts related to Ida - local news accounts, weather spotters, volunteers, local orgs, etc - please add them to the wiki here: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Smart Nonprofit is a jargon-free roadmap for nonprofit staff, boards, volunteers, and funders on the ways “smart technologies” like artificial intelligence are changing social change work. The article highlights some of the themes in our book, The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in an Automated World , coming out in March, 2022.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

There is a robust chapter on how to conduct an organizational learning assessment that helps staff, volunteers, and board gauge their need and readiness for professional development and some organizational cultural indicators. It also includes an individual professional development assessment. Agreed upon plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Three years ago, in the wake of the devastating storm, social media and others started organizing online. This time, online organizing efforts using social media are happening before the storm hits. For coordinating online volunteer efforts, he has set up a social network called the Gustav Information Center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2019

By letting each volunteer create an individual donation page, they can easily post it on social media and ask their friends and families for support. Campaigns like this are extremely successful for some organizations, especially ones who have a strong social media presence. Turn your peer-to-peer fundraiser into a viral trend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

In order to answer to this critical question, nonprofit arts organizations have a special opportunity during the month of February to use social media as a way bring new visibility to their organizations' work by participating in the GreatNonprofits Arts Appreciation Campaign. Many may be asking, therefore, “Why fund the arts?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

Direct Relief , a humanitarian aid organization, and its Direct Relief and its bot builder, Mind Heros , have open-sourced their model. Direct Relief , a humanitarian aid organization, turned to Facebook messenger bot when the organization’s 1.5 It’s available for free to other nonprofits through BotsForCharity.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

How is it being organized? Decentralized event organizing, it's grassroots and anyone can organize a local event. The charity isn't the central organizer of the event - it appears that they are letting their stakeholders run with it and not imposing "branding and messaging" standards. How did the relationship originate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The Day of Service is an opportunity for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community - in form of sharing knowledge one-on-one with a local organization or participate in a group project like installing a wireless network in a homeless shelter! I participated in my first Day of Service in 2001 as a volunteer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2007

Second Life kiva.org volunteer: Julles Boucher Kiva.org , a micro-finance organization, has funded nearly 17,0000 loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries and last week crossed the $11 million rank. Julles Boucher or ( Julia Bailey, PhD ) serves as kiva.org's Second Life Coordinator on a volunteer basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2017

If your organization has the skills to craft authentic, real, emotional stories about the work that you do every day and make those stories social, you will be able to grow support and keep donors engaged. Collecting stories from your donors as to why they give and from your volunteers as to why they volunteer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2020

Why not partner with a local restaurant to organize a “Take Out Tuesday” on May 5th. Your organization can help promote ordering takeout on Giving Tuesday from restaurants. You could work with the restaurant to donate some of the proceeds to your organization or partner to provide takeout meals for frontline healthcare workers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2013

It takes us through why it is important for nonprofits to connect with Millennials based on a good synthesis of recent research and follows through with informative chapters that will help your nonprofit build a solid strategy for connecting with the connected generation in your organization’s communication’s strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2022

The Smart Nonprofit is a jargon-free roadmap for nonprofit staff, boards, volunteers, and funders on the ways “smart technologies” like artificial intelligence are changing social change work. I recommend you buy it today! The Smart Nonprofit by Beth Kanter and Allison Fine vital and timely book. I recommend you buy it today!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

Take a look at the web site of any well-established nonprofit organization , and you'll probably see past invitations to these types of events or one for an upcoming event We're seeing the rise of social media to promote, organize, and in some cases hold the actual charity event itself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

From organic energy bars to artisan jewelers and even a Llama trekking company, five small businesses in Cusco will benefit from the collective knowledge and work of these twenty women. Next, she asked for a volunteer to come to the front of the room and read their card. She modeled reading hers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2008

The internet allows some organizations to embrace long-distance involvement. It means opening yourself up to volunteers, encouraging them to network, to connect with each other, and yes, even to mutiny. It means opening yourself up to volunteers, encouraging them to network, to connect with each other, and yes, even to mutiny.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2012

Through a recent research project, we learned that nonprofits are innovating in subtle but remarkable ways, and we believe their success is replicable for other organizations. The organization’s social media presence became like a snowball gathering mass. Four Full-Time, Seven Part-Time Staff. Last year, when the nearby St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Myth 9: I’ve heard GT can only involve donors, not my staff or volunteers. Myth 10: Donors will only pay attention to your organization at the end of the year. Myth 8: Raising money through Facebook is the best way to win #GivingTuesday. Is your nonprofit ready for GivingTuesday?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

As the event organizer, we allocated a few thousand dollars to paid promotion of posts on Twitter, Facebook, Google and YouTube. Fortunately, we had a team of social media volunteers at a central location (our “command center”) at the Mall of America which made it easy to coordinate our response via email, blog, Facebook and Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2006

He asked for three volunteers from the audience to "make a podcast." There was a lot of interest from the audience so I suspect this means we may be hearing a few more arts organizations in the nonprofit podcasting space. And, with Pittsburgh Podcamp coming up, maybe a few arts organization will check it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

The workshop focused on how nonprofit leaders can activate a culture of wellbeing in their organizations. If we lack the skills to avoid collaborative overload, manage difficult conversations, learn from failure, the resulting physical, emotional, and mental strain gets in the way of a nonprofit organization’s success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2014

Last year, Knight Foundation published the Giving Day Playbook , a soup-to-nuts guide to 24-hour online campaigns that community foundations are increasingly organizing to promote local philanthropy. What’s the best way to recruit and train volunteers on a Giving Day? How can you encourage donor-advised fundholders to participate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2014

I’m in Sao Paulo, Brasil to speak at Telefonica’s Conference on virtual volunteering that takes place on December 2nd (GivingTuesday). Organizations as Greenpeace, SOS Global Villages, Care, Rotary International, The Red Cross, The Avon Institute as well many other smaller, local nonprofits. Fundraising'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

I’ve been volunteering for community causes since I was a kid, something my family encouraged. When I was in the third grade, I volunteered to bake cupcakes to help fundraise for Lucy the Elephant (who thankfully survived super storm Sandy ). The organizations listed are profiled by other young people. Youth in Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Joan has been an executive director, board member, donor, and volunteer – so she brings to her consulting and educator practice so much perspective and wisdom. Build ally relationships with other organizations and media before you need them. Phase 3: What assumptions will be made? Phase 4: Outline a Process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Maybe your passion got someone else to give, advocate, or volunteer. Over the years I’ve had countless opportunities to help others and give, often because someone introduced me to a new idea or organization. And then a maybe a larger impact. Maybe even a legacy. That’s still not all. That might be the best benefit of all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it. This post is a round up of how to find volunteers and others to assist with the nitty gritty data skills. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Before the rise in popularity of online social networks, HandsOn Network recruited, trained and worked with service leaders – the kind of people who see a problem in their community, organize an effort to fix it and recruit their friends to help – exclusively through our local affiliates. Is that good? Perhaps that’s true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

This fall and winter I’m working with a group of organizations in Chicago to raise awareness around homelessness, alongside screenings of the @Home documentary that features portraits of this issue through the eyes of activist Mark Horvath. A campaign to help people feel grateful would be a gain for these organizations and the cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

I had the privilege of attending an event for A Billion + Change , a national campaign to mobilize billions of dollars in skills-based and pro bono volunteer services to help build the capacity of nonprofit organizations to effectively meet community needs. In times of great need, there is great opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2017

If you don’t already have our book , it is full of best practices and examples from nonprofit leaders around the world sharing their secrets on how to make self-care a habit and more importantly how to embed into their organization’s culture so there is sustainable energy to do good work. Here’s our schedule. ➳ REGISTER HERE.

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