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Empowering Young Children through Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: One of the things that I enjoyed most about IFCAsia was the networking opportunities to connect with other people in the region who share interests. One of them was Vincent Law who is doing interesting work with teaching young children about giving and philanthropy. I was there as a new trainer.

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Money talks: Why tuning into the Giving Pledge matters 

Candid

That’s potentially a lot of philanthropy. Influential Pledgers’ philanthropic approaches The Giving Pledge was formed in 2010 by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett to encourage the super-rich to publicly elevate and accelerate their giving. They are not the only pledgers with the capacity to set public priorities.

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How Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ Raised over $10M in 1 Day!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year before the event Jeff Achen write a post sharing their strategy for 2010. This guest post discusses the results. Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ raised over $10M in one day by Jeff Achen of GiveMN.org. “Do Do what you do best and network the rest.”. Leveraging our network.

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Must-Read Reports for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

1) 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report :: Download. 7) Giving USA 2011: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2010 :: Download. All the reports currently listed are based on U.S. nonprofit research, but I would also like to add similar reports from other countries. Thank you. Published by NTEN.

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How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter and Other Things I learned in Vegas

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How networked nonprofits use twitter. Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter.

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A Webinar: Measuring the Networked Nonprofit

Care2

If you have not read Beth Kanter and KD Paine's awesome new book Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , then you must check out Care2's webinar on December 4th at 2PM ET led by Beth, Ashley Boyd of MomsRising, and Ryann Miller of Care2. What you'll learn: How to lead with a networked mindset. What it means to be data-informed.

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Great reads from around the web on January 24th

Amy Sample Ward

" 2011 NTEN Champions Fundraising Campaign by the Numbers | NTEN – "The funny thing about being the Nonprofit Technology Network is that it can be really hard to practice what we preach. An increase in email use, however, was visible in the 55+ age group, who used web-email 15% more in 2010 than in 2009.

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