Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Guest Post: Why Haven’t Foundations Responded to the Newtown Shootings?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On a personal note, I come from a small town in Western Pennsylvania, where “people cling to their guns” as President Obama clumsily stated in the 2008 campaign. Indeed, my great, great grandfather Thomas Stehle came to this country as a gunsmith in the 1840s, so I understand how deeply rooted guns are for many people.

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Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These examples came from an experiment conducted by Dr. Deborah Small of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, an expert in human decision-making. One pitch describes dry statistics about food shortages in Africa and the other describes the plight of one child suffering from starvation.

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Your Nonprofit Should Not Adopt Social Media If.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University has been doing biannual survey of nonprofit technology benchmarks for its regional nonprofits (Southwestern Pennsylvania) for the past ten years. I remember how excited we were when the first data was published ten years.

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Nonprofits Need To Nurture the Next Generation of New Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition to her consulting practice, Joan also teaches at the University of Pennsylvania with a focus on nonprofit communications and leadership. Joan was previously the Executive Director of GLAAD, one of the largest gay rights organizations in the world. She publishes practical advice for nonprofit leaders at JoanGarry.com. Leadership'

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Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In northwestern Pennsylvania, the Erie Community Foundation’s event, Erie Gives has raised more than $10.6 Still, some damage was done, according to Ms. Turnquist, who says the foundation estimated that local nonprofits would have raised 20 to 30 percent more if the original platform hadn’t crashed. million over 5 years.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's some details about some of social tactics: Skype reading sessions : This project started after a few tweets were exchanged between a librarian from Central Manor, Pennsylvania. We started off by people from our organization having Skype reading sessions with a few children and then moved onto having sessions with entire classes.

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