Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

As David notes, the pitch was personal just like their giving model. David also says that he was interested in the idea of person-to-person giving - and had written about it on his blog here where he talks about the book If the World Were a Village and how it brings global issues down to local level.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 published by the Giving USA Foundation and compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Why the difference?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The September 2009 issue of NTEN Connect had a review of trends in online giving. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. The analysis represents the largest study of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. Online Giving Continues to Grow. Year End Online Giving Trends.

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Haiti Trend Online Giving 82

Connection Cafe

JUNE 11, 2009

Fundraisers in the worst economic era since the Great Depression continue to struggle according to a study out this week from the Giving USA Foundation. While an estimated $307 billion dollars was given to charitable causes in 2008; total fundraising declined an inflation adjusted of 5.7% Second Highest Level of Giving Ever!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 29, 2011

Today, we welcome Marissa Theisen of Arizona Grantmakers Forum to discuss findings from the 2010 Arizona Giving Report. Arizona Grantmakers Forum (AGF) released a 2010 Arizona Giving Report earlier this year. It provides an overview of the size and scope of philanthropic activities in our state, based on 2008 IRS data.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Personally, I’ve learned a lot from seeing how Salesforce employees give back to their communities. No one understands the value of pro bono volunteerism , and the benefits to everyone involved more than Lindsay Gruber, President, and CEO of Taproot Foundation. At the same time, people were even more interested in giving back.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Achieve was founded in 2008 and started off working in the nonprofit sector primarily in research, strategy, and fundraising. We did significant academic research on the millennial generation and emerging giving trends. As an example, the ‘Millennial Impact Report’ was a study commissioned by the Case Foundation.

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Florida Social Media Technique Indianapolis 52

NetWits

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

While nonprofits often deliver highly relevant content in direct mail appeals – based on giving history, interests and past actions – that approach isn’t always carried over to their email appeals. Give current subscribers the opportunity to tell you what they like. It usually doesn’t work out so well.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

World Giving Index Charities Aid Foundation looked at three different types of charitable behavior – giving money, giving time and helping a stranger and used the results to produce the “World Giving Index.&# A lot of good information about how donors research their giving to nonprofits.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The September 2009 issue of NTEN Connect had a review of trends in online giving. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. The analysis represents the largest study of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. Online Giving Continues to Grow. Year End Online Giving Trends.

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Haiti Trend Online Giving 68

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

There's a lot happening this week in the nonprofit and social media space, particularly related to encouraging generosity, giving, and volunteering using social media tools. There was also a session announcing the " All for Good ," an application that makes it easy for people to give back to their communities through volunteering.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 2, 2011

The report was based on 2008 tax data for both institutions and individuals. While the markets have rebounded somewhat since 2008 and thus individual and foundation assets have grown, it's unlikely that Arizona's relative position compared with other states has changed. If they had increased their contributions to the U.S.

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Arizona Resource New Hampshire Arkansas 91

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

“A survey of 200 charity and foundation professionals revealed that nonprofits are finding it difficult to determine how valuable social media tools are for their organizations. Online giving in 2008 was up 44% from 2007. Early estimates for 2009 show an increase in online donations of 46% from 2008. Online Donations.

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See3

JUNE 10, 2009

The Giving USA Foundation’s annual report on charitable giving said that gifts were down in 2008, but not by much, 2%. Gifts to United Way and others who aggregate giving to mostly local, mostly poverty-focused work was up as well. Religious giving was way up as well. They show online giving is way up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

MacArthur Foundation named 13 organizations as recipients of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. In early 2008, villages and cities across Kenya were ravaged with violence following the disputed re-election of the sitting Kenyan president. and Catherine T. million, depending on the size of its budget.

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Care2

JULY 19, 2010

If your nonprofit has been contemplating entering online fundraising contests, check out the 2009 American Giving Challenge report released by the Case Foundation. Over the course of 30 days, individuals competed for donors donations and matching awards for their favorite charities. The challenge raised $2.1

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies. All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These are some of the questions that Alexa Cortes Culwell and I set out to answer in our new report, The Giving Code: Silicon Valley Nonprofits and Philanthropy. Funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, it reflects a year of research and analysis, including conversations with 300+ community stakeholders. billion to $4.8

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2020

I first heard Penelope Burk speak at the International Conference of the Association of Donor Relations Professionals in 2008. I want to share just a few low-budget examples of how the team at Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation has pivoted to continue providing donor relations and stewardship to our donors during this current crisis.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Following up on Elliot’s blog post, How Important Is Mobile Giving? , and the subsequent TechSoup discussion , I’m posting an analysis conducted by Sarah Grosvenor , the Assistant Director of Annual Giving at Willamette University , on the potential for mobile fundraising at the University. " read more. " read more.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Inform and inspire your foundation’s messaging. Give you the chance to register for the free 2009 Nonprofit Tagline Report, with 2,500 tagline examples. Your nonprofit or foundation could be one of this year’s Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Award winners! Vote here for the 2009 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

What is it like for a nonprofit to have a successful, lasting partnership with a private philanthropic foundation? One foundation that has been a committed supporter of our work is the Lavelle Fund for the Blind. That’s what a lot of foundations would love to see happen: in this case, it’s happened multiple times!

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 13, 2007

Everyone's buzzing about the Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge and the Causes Giving Challenge. Here's how: How to Join America's Giving Challenge (December 13, 2007-January 31, 2008) 1. Go to the America's Giving Challenge page in Parade Magazine. Go to the Causes Giving Challenge page.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2017

I tell my students that the deduction is a “tool of government”: the federal government gives us financial incentives to spend our money in certain productive ways. If I make a donation to a qualified public charity, operating foundation, school, or even to government, my taxable income decreases by the amount of my donation.

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Serbia United States Government Georgia 76

See3

JANUARY 21, 2008

Beth Kanter , friend and blogger, is raising money for the Sharing Foundation, which supports kids in Cambodia. Watch the video Beth did with her son: Now, if you give $10 you can help Beth raise $50,000 through a competition called America’s Giving Challenge. It’s a dumb question because I know you can.

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America Challenge Cambodia Giving 45

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 8, 2009

2008 Online Giving Trends - Connections - Want to compare your 2008 numbers/results to other organizations? Check out this post which "shares some very early online giving trends from Blackbaud clients. 40+ Inspirational Non-Profit Website Designs - Is a website redesign in your organization's 2009 plan?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

This was originally published on The Case Foundation Blog. Giving Guru Marnie Webb is Co-CEO of TechSoup Global where under her leadership the NetSquared initiative is in its fourth year of helping nonprofits worldwide use innovative web tools to increase their reach and impact. nonprofit sector. nonprofit sector. 21, at 1 p.m.

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Arts Giving Netsquared Grant 43

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

It may, depending on pricing, even give the open source CiviCRM a bit of competition. Bless the Salesforce Foundation and their endless adaptability! They are starting with a “charter&# program – a few nonprofit organizations, to iron out all of the varied issues, both technical and logistical, I imagine. 4 admin 07.06.08

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Open Source Convio Database Headline 100

Care2

JULY 16, 2010

300 billion was raised in 2008 (Giving USA); * $15 billion was raised online in 2008 – a 44% increase over 2007) (Blackbaud); * $21 million has been raised by Causes since its launch three years ago; * 30% of online giving happens in December. Did You Know? *

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In 2008, we were the first customer of Samasource as they were getting started. Carol shared that they had received an Impact Sourcing grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and scaled up their capacity. We go way back with her firm. Samasource connected us with Daproim in Nairobi to proofread books for our Bookshare project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

In May of 2008 when I joined The Lumpkin Family Foundation I was given the challenge to figure out how to develop a network to support the nonprofit capacity building work of The Foundation in downstate Illinois. We need to do more experiments to actively work to get The Foundation out of the center of the hub.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December.

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Giving Hunger Charity Blogger 50

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. They were talking about API’s. And what does “Linked Open Data” refer to?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Don't Let $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation Slip Away! Sharing Foundation Has Supporters in Finland. Why Nhung Sun, A Cambodian Blogger, Supports The Sharing Foundation. Giving Good Poke. America's Giving Challenge: We Came In First! You're Not Going To Ask Us To Give You An Outhouse for Your Birthday?

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ROI Widget Metrics Cambodia 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

I figured it was time to give my final assessment. It was quite a shame to have to give that up , but it was either that, or make due with either not using a Palm, or modifying dramatically how I dealt with my PIM data. August 9, 2007 It’s been 7 weeks of using Ubuntu 7.04 (better known as Feisty Fawn) as my primary desktop.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 1, 2011

Most of the grantmakers in Arizona are private foundations. Even though they're nonprofits, private foundations are a little bit different, legally, than other nonprofits. Arizona is home to over 1,000 private foundations, and, as most people answered correctly in the quiz, the largest is the Virginia G. Like this article?

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 4, 2016

I joined ASU in Fall 2008, and it’s been 8 years. I have studied minority volunteering and giving behaviors, social media giving, planned giving, and community foundations both in the US, and in other countries. For how long have you worked at ASU? What were you doing before this? What are you working on now?

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