Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. Our Local Impact Map. It first works with local community people to see what its children need and then tailors programs that are specific to that locale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Pick a campaign and platform to experiment with integrating social fundraising , but build your network and get organized first. Let your stakeholders share their story and passion about your organization – from the heart and humor work. Set realistic expectations and objectives for pilots, focus on learning and engagement.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

At PIMCO, we understand that it’s our responsibility to effect meaningful social change, both as members of an organization and as part of our larger communities. First launched in 2007, PIMCO’s original volunteer programming was limited, supporting 23 events across various business locations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised $2 million in 24 hours using the Razoo platform. Razoo has promoted local giving days, including Twive and Receive and recently announced reaching a milestone of raising $100 million. What about you?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The Make It Your Own program was a grant program in 2007 created by the Case Foundation to promote “citizen centered&# approaches to local community building. One would be hardpressed to find more knowledgeable, thoughtful folks on civic engagement and social media. With nearly 5,000 applicants and more than 15,000 voters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

The Empire State Building and London Eye are among a number of landmarks that will be lit up bright pink to mark the occasion. Although we had been trading letters for two years , I met Sopharath face-to-face in 2007 and recorded this interview. Why girls ? Why is this all important? She graduated from college and is married.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Nonprofit organizations are vital to the nation’s economic well-being and have nearly doubled in the last 30 years (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2015). It may be time to rethink how these important social organizations are funded. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Ingrid Severson is the lead project organizer of the Rooftop Resources project, a project of the Oakland non-profit Bay Localize. Ingrid: Bay Localize is a non-profit project that started back in December of 2005. What we do is work to build a more socially equitable and sustainable Bay Area. It affects the whole world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

is a national non-profit dedicated to saving play through engaging communities; creating dialogue; and providing tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.). is one of the first non-profit organizations to take this approach online. 3. Build your own technical competency. While KaBOOM!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Listening Listening is knowing what is being said online about your organization and your field. It becomes part of your organization's culture. It can be hard to retool an organization's culture to do listening as a daily part of the work flow, particularly if it isn't valued or there are concerns about negatives.

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

" Local humor aside, the project is exciting: 31 public parks in San Francisco will get free Wi-Fi for at least two years. The donation will cover installation and maintenance of necessary equipment, which will build upon existing free Wi-Fi areas, like City Hall and the San Francisco International Airport.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. At first, I liked it a lot.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

TechSoup Asia Asia is a nonprofit collaborative venture between TechSoup Global and its local nonprofit organization partners, Connecting Up Australia and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. The Center was established in 2007 by the Vietnam Scientific Association for Development of Talents, Human Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

In those days, I was " circuit rider " where I traveled around New York State to work with very small local arts councils in rural areas. I was Jill of all trades, assisting with a wide range of technology needs, from training to installing local area networks. (Yes, I've been working in nonprofit technology since 1992.

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2011

One of the figures that inspired the creation of Causes was how much money nonprofits spend on building lists and on fundraising and marketing technology. When comparing their direct marketing reach to the direct marketing reach at a large organization, small nonprofits will never get ahead. Be supporter-centric.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

But how are today’s nonprofit organizations charged with managing crises when their operating budgets have been turned on their heads? After we completed the listening phase, we began the process of relationship building. Organizations”, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. Many are turning to social media to assist them. .

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, April 15, 2011 Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead and Manage a Nonprofit Organization posted by Laura L. Current nonprofit leaders say that because of the recent downturn in the local and national economy, there is increased competition for nonprofit positions. How to Start a Nonprofit Organization: Questions t.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

And the many, many hyper local and niche causes that touch the lives of their online communities not by the millions, but by the hundreds or thousands everyday. And that means we must lead our organizations into a new era of communications. And so you are not just asked to change the world, but also your organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

rootwork : In terms of #s, the easiest things to measure (FB fans, Twitter followers, web hits) seem least useful in online organizing. rootwork : I strongly believe list building w/ petitions etc. annanten : @rootwork list building is just a strategy to engage more folks in your campaign. realize_ink : Q1. Both important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. He recommends the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network , works with local rape crisis centers nationwide.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Kathleen Rogers has been the NOZAsearch managing director and product manager since 2007. If you are like many nonprofit fundraisers I have had the privilege of working with, you need to raise money so your organization can provide critical programs and services. Now, it’s the nearing the end of 2012.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Facebook provides an unprecedented opportunity for nonprofits: 200 million monthly active users, about half of whom are signing in and communicating with their friends on a daily basis, is an organizer's dream. If someone has already started a cause benefiting your organization, get in touch with them and build a relationship.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Debra Askanase, Founder, Community Organizer 2.0 Primarily, it's about creating a fundamentally engaging experience for the website visitor that brings them closer to your organization. The five basic goals of using social media within a website are: Build followers within the nonprofit’s social media spaces. Raise funds.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Nonprofit organizations are often dependent on volunteers, and among adults 65 and older volunteering rates have increased from 14.3% 1 For nonprofits, understanding the dynamics of senior volunteerism can help organizations utilize seniors in a way that furthers their mission while offering a positive volunteering experience.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2017

Complex social issues are rarely solved by the individual success of a single organization. Cross-sector collaboration can be defined as partnerships between nonprofit, private, and government entities working together towards mutual goals to produce change (Simo & Bies, 2007). When the U.S.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2015

Cisco made $275 million in cash and in-kind contributions (like TechSoup product donations) to community organizations worldwide, and its employees volunteered 136,000 hours to support organizations in their own communities. Symantec donated more than 432,000 licenses reaching more than 23,000 organizations in 29 countries last year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. He wanted to raise some money to help the local orchestra and test some ideas. Spreading the word was not a case of “build it and they will come.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

My background is in campus organizing, and in helping college students connect with others working to create social change across perspective, issue, approach, and geography. Online organizing tools give us a way to connect with others in meaningful and effective ways, and to take responsibility for the communities that we know best.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

July 24, 2007. While there may be tremendous opportunity, your organization won't be able to reap the benefits if it is stuck in doing the same strategy year after year. You have to think of your "experiments" as one part learning, and the other part building up your online network of donors. The Long Tail of Facebook Causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

She is a co-founding member and serves on the advisory board of the Social Media Club and founder of Every Dot Connects , a consortium of marketing and media practitioners who are passionate about using new technologies to build bridges between people and ideas and causes. You should also be building your own online network.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

Numerous nonprofits and NGOs are organizing events and campaign to celebrate. The organization is asking supporters to change their Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook avatars at 1:10 on Friday, March 6th to the "oneten" avatar. If you live in the Bay Area (like me), the Global Fund for Women has created a calendar of local events.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As part of my preparation, it seems like a good time to update my 2006 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Us Blogs , and my 2007 post, 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause. Share your expertise Think about all of the brainpower and expertise within your organization's staff, board and volunteers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 12, 2006

In June 2005, my friend Abby Jaramillo, the Executive Director of Urban Sprouts , brought six international volunteers to two rural communities in the rainforests of Ecuador, Guayabillas and Santa Rosa, with the organization Shunku Llacta. January 10-24, 2007, the artisans' communities will host eight Shunku Llacta volunteers for two weeks.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 19, 2012

Read on to learn how Jamie-Alexis Fowler pushed fundraising goals to bring in more dollars for Pathfinder International and leveraged the services of Convio’s Strategy team to amplify her organization’s message. EG for CC: How do you describe your role at the organization to friends at parties?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

The organizations felt that it was difficult to identify an appropriate one and felt that they were often left. Smaller organizations said that they could not afford help of any kind, particularly their own staff dedicated to technology. local governments for their activism. local governments for their activism.

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