Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

With a mission that’s inspired viral attention across the internet, it’s impossible not to be humbled by the groundswell of support triggered by the small organization in Columbia Falls, Maine. Wreaths Across America’s Incredible Impact. Support for Our Fallen Is Down. The Beginning of Wreaths Across America.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

And what are some of the social benefits and impact that may result from such a relationship? At Benetech, we’re fortunate to have had long-time support from funders who have been willing to bet on us. One foundation that has been a committed supporter of our work is the Lavelle Fund for the Blind.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 7, 2019

Nonprofit Hub’s INSPIRE Hubcast series shares powerful and impactful stories of organizations persevering to create the change they want to see in the world. He has led OneGoal since March 2007, overseeing vast programmatic expansion and guiding strategic planning efforts.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Charity and government support remain crucial but are insufficient to address the magnitude of the task at hand. Social enterprise efforts can range from selling merchandise to support the charitable functions of the nonprofit to creating a new entity that merges the for- and nonprofit operations into a hybrid form.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

Many funders, including individual donors, are averse to funding these indirect costs, preferring to support direct program expenses: food for hungry people, medical care for the sick, and childcare for working parents. Building the infrastructure needed to properly support an organization as a whole is vital to the entity’s sustainability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2009

She offered me a helpful list of tips and Outlook 2007 cheat sheets, the Foundation's email/calendar or productivity system. This is a question mostly for larger nonprofits with IT departments or support. Mary Watson, IT Manager Mary Watson, IT Manager, gave me my orientation to the different IT, phone, and security systems at Packard.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Prior to her work with March of Dimes, she focused internationally on the impacts of social and environmental factors on the health of women and their families . Leads World Central Kitchen’s emergency and disaster relief efforts and long-term impact projects . Vice President, Social Impact and Sustainability. Kelly Tweeddale.

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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. This time I wanted to feature NGOs around the world that are making a humanitarian impact internationally across several countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact. What models of “collective impact” or multi-stakeholder collaborations have emerged; is there a typology?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The intent is to create an annual national day of giving on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving or this year on November 27, 2012. The campaign will encourage philanthropic activities that support nonprofit organizations. But collective action isn’t enough unless there is collective impact. How does one measure that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

When I first got started with social media training (2004-2007), I often rain into a lot of raised eyebrows, crossed arms, and skeptics suggesting that “Social media is a fad.” Looking forward, we expect there will be a point when specialized support, specialized consultants and specialized language won’t be needed.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

First launched in 2007, PIMCO’s original volunteer programming was limited, supporting 23 events across various business locations. These pillars help us engage our clients, develop cross-sector partnerships, maintain focus on impact metrics, and support our PIMCO colleagues while fostering meaningful social change.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 8, 2020

Since the turn of the century, we have faced many societal and financial challenges to raising money for our organizations: September 11, 2001, the recession that began in 2007, and annual natural disasters that challenge the worldwide environment. How your mission impacts COVID-19 (if relevant). How COVID-19 impacts your mission.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

The Truth About Donor Research This comes from the report Money for Good: The US Market Opportunity for Impact Investments and Charitable Gifts from Individual Donor and Investors. Get the latest data on email open rates, social media usage, email churn, and more. A lot of good information about how donors research their giving to nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2011

Note from Beth: Back in 2007, I presented and attended at the Games for Change Festival. Over the past few years, games and mobile platforms have become more and more important for nonprofits to pay attention to for their communications strategy. Each case study will be presented by the designers and their implementing partners.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Please support the SocialBrite team (or any other blogger) in the Social Media Challenge! At Socialbrite, we’d like to call on our readers to support students in public school classrooms in low-income areas. Some of the donations will have twice the impact because of a matching grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Previously, the positive impact of religious congregations and social networks on volunteering was found by Park and Smith (2000). This strong relationship was also evident for informal social networks where friend and neighbor interactions significantly increased the likelihood of volunteering (Bekkers, 2005; Okun, Pugliese, Rook, 2007).

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Care2

AUGUST 8, 2007

Emphasize research – don’t just assume we know what our supporters want, get out and talk with them (this does not need to be official market research or focus groups!)

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Researchers at ASU (see Dr. Lili Wang’s post on Hispanic Volunteering), along with colleagues from across the country, are examining the impact of acculturation on the philanthropic behaviors of minorities and immigrants. Can we support these new findings with research literature? We welcome your comments and feedback. Sundeen et.

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NetWits

MAY 20, 2008

The Challenge: Bread for the City wanted a new website that would create a more professional image, drive more support for the mission, and allow the organization to better integrate its online and offline marketing activities. Success stories demonstrate the organization’s community impact to supporters.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 9, 2009

How does your organization encourage your online supporters/friends/fans to take action offline, together, or to meet with your organization? "Of all the areas of life that computer and communications technology seems to be impacting the most is its influence on relationships.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

then:- - buy hardware that is supported (unless you are a developer or tinkerer) - use software that is not proprietary its easy. it is particularly sad because its still virtually impossible to spend grant money on GNU/Linux support, people like to fund shiny hologram boxes. Hardly going to buy much paid support!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

In 2007, the popular Free Rice online game used quiz-style vocabulary building game that rewarded correct answers with ten grains per bowl to feed hungry children. And the charities get to choose whether to receive support from an advertiser… if they don’t want a certain ad to appear alongside their brand, it doesn’t.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 2, 2007

This funding is to fully support all schools and students with qualifying print disabilities in the United States, K-12 and post-secondary, with access to the entire Bookshare.org collection of accessible electronic books and to software for reading those books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Fundraising advisors encourage this support too. According to a new study that TCC Group is conducting of the Packard Foundation’s support for nonprofit capacity-building activities, the answer is no. Fundraising support also has to go beyond plans and translate to concrete action.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

Her new book, “The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause,&# is part survival guide and part nitty-gritty how-to handbook for nonprofit communicators. I’ve always preferred to work with smaller organizations because I felt like my impact was always greater there.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

As of September 2009, scores of Facebook applications have been developed to support the nonprofit sector in one way. Once an active community of supporters and fans has developed around your nonprofit or cause, you can encourage them to contribute to and spread donation opportunities. 3 - Your People Are Your Impact.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2017

And, while we can certainly see the outpouring of support during moments of heightened awareness, such as after natural disasters, there may be more at play to the sector’s current state of affairs. To that end, there has been a great focus on communication and stewardship of donors to further increase giving.

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Care2

MAY 2, 2007

The survey supported the concern that nonprofits fail to maximize their marketing potential. 60) Search « Join Care2 for Another Internet Advocacy Roundtable! Nancy Schwartz , our friend from the Getting Attention blog , informed us about this just-released study that questioned 350 nonprofits about their marketing initiatives.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Lumity , a nonprofit organization serving the Chicago region for 25 years, "helps charitable organizations to more effectively fulfill their missions through technology, financial support services, and training." Learn more about them from this short video. Past Technology Leadership Award Recipients.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Here is a partial list of what we’ve completed as part of this review: Program evaluation based on a sample of 169 OE grants closed in 2007-2009, conducted by TCC Group (2011). Through this process, we’ve considered what works well, and where we can experiment with being more effective and having more impact.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 10, 2012

The core economy , although supported by money, is not driven by it. Staying on the leading edge requires unlocking and nurturing the human potential that leads, manages, and supports these concepts. They involve people and their development and support — their human potential. Financial Resources. Governance.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. How research or any type of findings are packaged and presented can impact how readily the knowledge is put into practice.".

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2011

These nonprofits don't have giant marketing departments and expensive communication tools, but they do have a dedicated group of supporters and the ability to tell compelling stories about the tangible impact of their work. Be supporter-centric. But reach is not nearly as important as engagement on social media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 25, 2017

Vanessa was absolutely a change agent wherever she served, bringing tremendous value to the nonprofits she supported. While serving more customers and adding more services feel like the right thing to do, the full impact of fixed and variable costs and the demands on the overall organization need to be analyzed carefully.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

In this webinar you will learn: Why early communication with a new supporter is so important. Which images will make the biggest impact. "Welcome Messages That Work" -- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29th at 2PM ET. Subject lines and focused messaging that lead to higher open and click rates.

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