Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2014

So in 2011, the organization adopted an online movement-building model that they hoped would more effectively engage its community of half-a-million divers. Also launched in 2011, the Dive Against Debris program asks dive shop operators and individual divers to become citizen scientists. million divers.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

—– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. Nearly 18,000 people participated in the 24-hour, online fundraising event, raising more than $2 million to benefit 1,200 local nonprofits.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

But after hosting many events over the years, how can your organization change up its approach and plan more engaging activities? Connecting with nearby TV and radio outlets can be a great way to reach your local audience. This might include your annual donor appreciation gala, local farmers’ market, or a community festival.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Plan Engaging Virtual Activities and Performances. Activity coordinators. Activity coordinators recruit speakers and presenters, plan the logistics of activities (such as procuring items for your auction), and otherwise determine the details of your gala’s programming. Plan Engaging Virtual Activities and Performances.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2011

Discussions about green jobs and green economy policies occurred from local to national levels. Many engaged in those events have continued to be involved in the issue, if not the organization, and some have taken up leadership roles locally or even nationally. In fact, the bar for activism is higher. Action takes time.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

That’s right, the session selection process is open for the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference ! Participants will walk away with a set of guiding principles and tactics to develop media, events and activities that encourage connections and local leadership among your stakeholders to increase your organizational reach and impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

The tool is meant to openly share and visualize the operations of World Bank financed activities down to as local a level as possible and compare these with actual need and monitor the effects over time." " 2011: The Year the Check-in Died – "Early last year, "checking in" was the cool new craze.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

In 2011 I had gotten in the very bad habit of listening to (mostly) CNN in the background while working… all day long. However, while in Asia I got to watch CNN Asia and the BBC and read the local press. Enter The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart : VIDEO: 2011: A Look Back. Guaranteed.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

Regardless of what work you are doing – campaigning for political change, providing services to your local community, educating others, or anything else – would it look different, would it feel different, would it operate differently if love was the central message? Are you fueling with love? To Mama With Love. Learn more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

Time Magazine provocatively named “The Protester” as its 2011 “Person of the Year” for its riveting influence on last year’s social and political events. As courageous citizens connected with each other to express dissent and organize public actions, social media tools spurred activism and social change in unprecedented ways.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The activities funded range from media platforms (55%) to journalism, news, and information (28%), to media applications and tools (6%), and more. 4 Think global, write local Don’t forget op-eds and letters to the editor! While topics might be global, news is local,” explained Chan. million in 2009 to $687.6

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Carolyn’s Nonprofit Blog was inspired by the many people who have reached out to Carolyn since it was launched in 2011 to ask for advice about becoming a grant writer and nonprofit fundraiser. It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. Many readers asked How do you become a grant writer?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers. Snapchat’s navigation and design is tailored for Gen Z – the mobile-first and mobile-only generation, but Millennials and Gen Xers are also becoming more active on Snapchat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011). Through the E-Mediat program, Essmaani participants also gained tools on how to recruit volunteers on line and how to promote their activities using social media. Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. The final phase is to design and facilitate in-country bootcamps with participants. (I’ll

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

Last month, at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , I had the opportunity to run the Community-Driven Social Impact game in a session workshop. I really appreciated the structured and in depth discussion this activity created. What did you learn and what would you do differently next time?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Federal Government shutting down Megaupload for their illegal download activities. Perhaps the most famous of these was the outage of the Sony PlayStation Network that took down their cloud based service for nearly a month in the spring of 2011 and affected Sony's 70 million users. I’m not seeing a lot of this yet, though.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Recent research findings by Christopher Einolf and Susan Chambre (2011) provided empirical evidence of the strong influence of both formal and informal social networks on volunteering. They found that individuals actively involved in activities with social organizations were more likely to volunteer. As part of a. Einolf, C.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

’ In other words, if a large number of people in an area haven’t the access or the skills to use the internet – what are local public services doing to get this fixed?" ' There are two responses I usually give here. I might also ask at this point, however, ‘what are you doing to fix this?’

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NTEN

JUNE 7, 2011

Community-based fundraisers bring together members of your organization, local businesses, media, and residents in your community to support a worthy cause or in some cases, to support numerous causes. The annual fundraising event benefits local health and human service agencies throughout Pennsylvania.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

In November, 2011, the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, The United Way of National Capital Area, and the social giving platform, Razoo, hosted a multi-million dollar local giving day. A significant outreach campaign to raise awareness of the nonprofit community and the local event.

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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. They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

nonprofit donations in 2011. Louis ’ CEO, Kimberly McKinney, stresses how participating in a volunteer event with visible results, such as building a home, can be a strong team-building activity for a company’s staff. Corporations Value Local Causes. Corporations are more likely to contribute to local organizations and causes.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

Disclaimer Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Creating, Building, and Sustaining Nonprofit Communities posted by Hannah Humphrey , Public Allies Arizona Alumna / Outreach Coordinator, Xico What does it mean to be a community organization? We talk about serving the community, building community, and engaging community. Thank you for the post!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

About 75 percent of young people who provided data for the 2012 Millennial Impact Report said they gave money to a nonprofit in 2011, while 70 percent said they have helped solicit donations by encouraging colleagues and others to support a cause." Feeding America has utilized numerous Call2Action Sparks.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

Having a conversation with your community of stakeholders is an essential activity for nonprofits. In our session on Community Voice at NTEN’s 2011 Nonprofit Techology Conference, Arthur provided a case study of the LikeMinded program and how it was built based on engagement with the community. Momentum was being lost. Conversation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 17, 2018

State and local income and property taxes are now limited to a $10,000 deduction. The Independent Sector reports that in 2010 the estate tax was repealed, and charitable bequests decreased by 37%, only to increase to 92% in 2011 when the estate tax came back. Limited deductions of state and local income and property taxes.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 24, 2012

Education organizations, both institutions and those organizations focused on education, comprise a little over 15% of nonprofit organizations in the United States and represented over 13% of participants in the State of Grantseeking survey published by GrantStation and PhilanTech in November 2011.

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NTEN

JUNE 8, 2011

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from an article that first appeared in the June 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. If you have the capacity, consider organizing local chapter meetups. Reinforce positive interaction Reward interaction and highlight your most active members. Invite them in, and they will start to share.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Some of this increase can be attributed to earlier retirement, leading senior citizens to be more active. Research shows that a decline in well-being that the elderly often experience can be linked to a reduction of activity, but a productive activity such as volunteering can counter this effect. in 1974 to 23.5% Energize, Inc.,

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

The busiest day in both 2011 and 2012 is our longtime community program, Free First Friday. And finally, and perhaps most interestingly, here's a comparison of Jan-June 2011 vs Jan-June 2012. I'd like to show you the data for the full fiscal year, but we only have this daily data beginning in the winter of 2011.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2012

And already in 2011, “more than 50% of all ‘local’ searches were done from a mobile device.” More nonprofits and libraries are using mobile technologies to educate, activate, and engage audiences and constituencies of all shapes and sizes. ” moment like Ben Rigby from Sparked, now’s the time!

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The study "found that 74% of Americans belong to at least one local group. People may be reorganizing their time to participate in more voluntary activities.". Pew Internet & American Life Project, June 16, 2011. Why Americans use social media , Pew Internet & American Life Project, November 15, 2011.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Political Engagement and Activism. The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. You can also create a special reading list, locate books in your local library, and share what you're reading with friends over social media. Apps Made by Youth.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2013

Charitable giving continues to flourish in this country; according to the Giving USA report , charitable giving totaled $298 billion in 2011,with 73% of funds donated by individuals. national and local initiatives spurred by tragedies of school violence. profit is derived from an activity not related to the mission and.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

From locally owned neighborhood shops to the largest corporations, all companies can easily establish corporate giving programs and give back to the causes they care about. Did you know that actively disengaged employees cost the organizations they work for $483-$605 billion per year ? What Are the Benefits of Corporate Giving?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

This milestone just seemed to be too big a deal not to stop and celebrate, because, well, reaching 15 million active members seems pretty amazing. (To Together with our nonprofit partners, our members are producing lasting change on the local, national and international level.". Care2 Surpasses 15 Million Members.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

Last week, the local newspaper did a really generous front-page story on my museum (the MAH) and the changes here over the past eight months since I started. We just started to try to live up to that vision, partnership by partnership, activity by activity. but I didn't have numbers to back it up. Or at least preliminary ones.

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