Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

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 design and facilitate a day long, in person meeting every other month dedicated to one of these topics. They are: productions, youth media/education, fundraising, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Knowledge Seattle Social Media Measure 97

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

Last month, the Japan earthquake and tsunami occurred on March 11th 2011, the first day of the conference. Second, we would focus on taking the campaign to off-line events as much as possible to facilitate meaningful connections between the online and offline world.

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Raise Japan Interview Disaster 176

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

At that time she made and raised $2,000 using Chipin, using the case study I had documented where I raised money to send a young Cambodian women to college. I am currently raising funds for a story that I believe needs to be told about the 2011 people’s uprising in Madison, Wisconsin. January 21.

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Wisconsin Platform Fund Ghana 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

It takes you through the technologies and tools for each channel for different goals and offers up lots of case studies from organizations such as National Wildlife Federation, Red Cross, AARP, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, American Museum of Natural History, SEIU and others. Click to see larger version.

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Campaign Online Chapter Model 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Beth’s Blog, September 2011. The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed. Not Data Driven.”

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Case Study: Operation Groundswell. The summer 2011 program included 115 participants who also exceeded goals, raising a total of $125,000! Don't just send a personal invitation to make a donation, but be sure to keep supporters updated on your progress, and don't forget to send personalize Thank You letters as well.

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Personal Experiment Online Fundraising 70

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Double the Donation’s Matching Gift Resources According to a previous study , Double the Donation is the largest provider of matching gift tools for nonprofits and educational institutions alike, working with an estimated 78% of the most prominent fundraising organizations in the U.S.

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Review Gift Resource Knowledge Base 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2011

We have a visual chart that shows us the stage of each draft – so when we reached 80% milestone, my reward was to attend the afternoon sessions of the Social Innovation Summit 2011. It resonated a lot with the themes in my book, and no surprise that DoSomething.org is one of the featured case studies. Impact Investing.

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Reflection Social Measure Case Study 97

Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

" Causes facilitates these communities and combines them together, though Jen was quick to differentiate them from a software as a service. Causes' goals for 2011 include a redesign and a deeper focus on key features. Case Study: Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California. Distributed nature.

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Causes Community Online Fundraising 64