Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Many of those texts are being sent via Tweets on Twitter and Status Updates on Facebook. My guess is that 2010 will be the year when many nonprofits will be able to starting utilizing these new, powerful mobile tools at a much lower cost. Tags: Facebook Flickr LinkedIn Mobile Technology MySpace Twitter YouTube.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 31, 2010

Last week in my post, Keeping Your Balance While Helping Haiti , I suggested that you research organizations working in Haiti that you would like to support by donating, volunteering, or helping in some other way throughout 2010. Have you chosen a way to support an organization working in Haiti throughout 2010?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Women Give 2010 is the first report to compare philanthropic giving between men and women across all income levels based on a nationally representative sample.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). – Pew Research Center – "Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. Who Tweets?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 12, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Twitter, Facebook and Google tools have already been used for market research, sales predictions and targeted advertising.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2010

And at the time the Haiti disaster occurred in January 2010, the nonprofit had virtually no social media presence aside from the Father Marc’s blog updating supporters of the organization's work in Haiti. million + Twitter followers.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 23, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Introducing WebAPI ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In 2010, I had an opportunity to do a Networked Nonprofit workshop in Kenya. Zawadi had just discovered Twitter, but had not started to use it regularly. Ever since I’ve kept in touch with her over Twitter. We did a little coaching. 50% had never participated in a crowd funding campaign.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Automattic , the makers of WordPress , and WordPress.com, just got a big chunk of “series B&# funding. Not being much of a capitalist, I don’t really know what “series B&# funding means, but I’m imagining it’s a very good thing.) I doubt you’ll look back. { Keep up the good work!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). In addition to funding, the tools below can engage new supporters, constituents and future advocates.

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NetWits

JUNE 15, 2011

According to the BBC in 2010 “In many regions, penetration exceeds 100%, where there is more than one connection per person in the country. And big thanks to all the folks on Twitter who helped me find these. Currently there are over 5 billion devices worldwide and growing. So what apps are out there made by nonprofits? link : [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2007

In general, it seems like most models depend on some sort of up-front funding, whether it be an investment or a grant, to fund the initial writing of a large amount of content. The problem of how do you fund the actual writing of content was not really addressed, and I think that is one of the harder nuts to crack.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2020

According to a 2019 Statistica report on social media use, users spend an average of 136 minutes per day on social channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat. Social media and online giving both increased six percent between 2010 and 2018. To date, the fund has raised more than $1.8 Make it easy.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 24, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). February 12, 2010, and promises to be "more than just a conference on the next generation web." NonProfit 2.0 Unconference here: [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

A company that provides services for Ruby on Rails got a bunch of funding. OpenAds , an open source ad server (very cool) just got tons of $ in financing. So what does this mean for you, o struggling nonprofit organization? Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

But this year, the buzz leading up to the November 15 event on Twitter and Facebook, as well as on sites like YouTube and Linkedin, was even stronger. Based on our post-event survey of more than 9,000 individual donors, 67 percent heard about the event via email, 23 percent via Facebook, and 4 percent via Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

On November 16, 2010, Minnesotans will take part in Give to the Max Day. This incredible online fund raising event raised more than $14 million last year, and we’re hoping to raise the bar higher this year by engaging more than 40,000 donors to donate to any of Minnesota’s more than 26,000 nonprofits using GiveMN.org.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Submissions close January 22, 2010." Digital Media and Learning Competition: Applications now open!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

I'd ask questions on Twitter before. Dan Hicks suggested: Build #PositiveAction training—as defined in the 2010 Equality Act—to make a 'pipeline' to begin to address under-representation. Sharing articles that work is a great reason to stay on Museum Twitter by the way. So many wonderful ideas, and I shared a few below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

to fund research in an attempt to address critical social problems. We collaborated with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation , the Nonprofit Finance Fund and Steppenwolf Theatre Company to share the findings of a study on consumer brands and Millennials to find winning strategies for engaging young people. By Patricia Martin, 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. Chris Hughes.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

To answer these questions and more, we at Smart Online™ used this last quarter of 2010 to try and unravel the ‘Technology Trends for Nonprofits’ in 2011. Our survey showed that 91% of our respondents use Facebook, 63% use Twitter, 45% use YouTube and 35% use LinkedIn, amongst other media. 1] Bango Annual Mobile Usage Study, Feb 2010.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If you're a nonprofit and you made a video in 2010, you should: > Submit your video today! For small nonprofits lacking funds in the video department, we have a new category this year for the best “thrifty” videos (produced for under $500). What do the winning nonprofits win you ask? Awesome video cameras from Flip Video.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

Nonprofit Finance Fund. Earlier this year, Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) received 4,600 responses to our annual 2012 State of the Sector Survey. Perhaps funding uncertainty has just become business as usual, no longer so urgent that it requires an emergency board meeting. Angela Francis , Senior Associate. nonprofit practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Claire Williams Diaz who works on social innovation at Twitter. She leads social innovation, philanthropy, and causes at Twitter and Blogs at Claire.us.com. Looking to get more out of Twitter? Why Twitter Matters | Getting Started with Twitter | Twitter 101 for Nonprofits. Meet Claire. Meet Geoff.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)? Blog: [link].

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2010

We announced the Paperless Choice Challenge back in May on the TechSoup Blog but thought it worth reiterating because the deadline for both voting and submissions is approaching on September 15, 2010. Paperless Choice is a program of Catalog Choice and funded by the Overbrook Foundation. It's significant on two counts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

In 2010, we wanted to let people know about the Big Blue Test through a video that we’d hope would go viral. But, with the funding from a sponsor (Roche), with the advise and help of David Edelman from DiabetesDaily.com and Riva Greenberg from DiabetesStories.com and the direction of Sean Ross , we produced the best video we could.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2010

To turn the tide and encourage nonprofits to develop taglines with an impact, Schwartz launched the 2010 Nonprofit Tagline Awards Program. The United Negro College Fund - "A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste". You should follow Frogloop on Twitter. How does your nonprofit's organization tagline size up to other nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I discovered it because of a charity challenge they're running on Twitter to raise awareness of their book, plus raise some money to help Room To Read. The Challenge: Get as many people as possible to tweet a link to this article, especially the people in the list below by midnight (ET) on Sunday, February 21 2010. x (Total Retweets).

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

However, when it comes to building communities online, often the first place an organization starts is with social networking accounts -- creating organizational Twitter and Facebook accounts. Follow Jamie on Twitter @jjmilliard Lori L. In 2010, she published her short book and ebook, Nine Steps to a Successful Fundraising Campaign.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

A long time ago (in web years) I was working with a certain CEO of a certain chapter of a certain very-big-nonprofit (whose role in life is to fund other nonprofits – this kinda gives it away, but it’s necessary for the story.) This reminds me of a true story.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Follow them on Twitter and retweet relevant posts. million in 2010. Many people will raise funds because they want to help your cause. Don’t stop there, though. Offer them tours and arrange meetings with senior staff members. Meet for coffee occasionally. Send a birthday card. Involve Team Captains.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, March 25, 2011 Research Friday Guest Post: "State of the Sector 2011: All quiet on the nonprofit front" posted by Angela Francis , Senior Associate Nonprofit Finance Fund Welcome to Research Friday ! Especially now, when it seems like increased demand and decreased funding availability are the new standards.

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? Nonprofit funding is not what it may have been 2 or 3 years ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

They raise funds and awareness in the United States for the lifesaving work that more than 6,000 staffers of Geneva-based UNHCR undertake for refugees around the world, 24/7. The Blue Key site was only launched in December 2010, and its social/digital aspects were relatively new, so there was not a lot of data to base KPIs on.

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