BoardAssist

OCTOBER 26, 2015

We know nonprofit leaders rely on their boards for financial support, but they also need so much more from them in non-financial ways. Who better to ask than this week’s guest blogger, Ellen Simon, the former head of Union Settlement Association, one of Harlem’s largest nonprofits for over 100 years. Volunteer your time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I launched a bloggers campaign as part of the Sharing Foundation's America Giving Challenge. Roger recently shared some thoughts about why he is participating in the bloggers campaign. I am certain I would have donated to this effort in support of you. Flickr Supporters. Sharing Foundation Khmer Literacy Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" The next logical step, of course, is to start to get to know some of these bloggers by doing interviews. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist. Give us room for leadership development.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 It’s amazing what your supporters will be willing and able to do for your nonprofit if you just ask. It’s also good to feature quotes from supporters who attended the event. Your supporters will probably help to share the news and provide valuable feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The Nonprofit Blog Carnival is a collection of the best advice and resources that consultants, support organizations, and nonprofits themselves are offering to the nonprofit community through their blogs. Nancy Schwartz hosted this past month’s carnival and I’m happy to share her round up as a guest post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2008

Wanna was one of the first Cambodian bloggers to leave a comment on my blog and we have gotten to know each other through flickr and our blogs. any advice to offer him? If you haven't already, donate $10 or more to the Sharing Foundation through Global Giving Fundraiser set up by Blogger Michele Martin of the Bamboo 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. As long as we are the staff and financial support for the effort, it will not be fully sustained without us.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Blogger and LinkedIn both launched in 2003. If you need to pop in to an Internet cafe to connect every other day or so, please do… but my advice to you as social media manager and a fellow traveler is to leave the gadgets at home. That said, here’s a tool kit to help you ask for that raise and get it. Good luck.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2014

In our latest installment of npEXPERTS – “ Cupids Arrow: Targeted Strategies to Acquire Supporters “ - you’ll find 36-pages of thoughtful advice on donor acquisition strategies, written collaboratively by a cross-section of nonprofit fundraising experts. blogger at wildandcrazypearl.com. Play the Game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

During the conference, “a small army of guest bloggers [and] grantmakers, who [attended GEO] posted their reflections on the session and LIP in general on my blog. The Foundation also makes grants to help advance and support the field of private philanthropy. The learning in public (slides and resources here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. Nancy Schwartz has excellent advice in her 7 Facebook Essentials Nonprofit Marketers Need To Know Radio, podcasting and fundraising?

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BoardAssist

JULY 22, 2014

Always ready with great fundraising advice, guest blogger Gail Perry has terrific guidance for us in her guest post this week below. Ask for advice. I’ve talked a lot about Advice Visits here , here and here. What do you think our best strategy is for lining up support? Thanks Gail for these terrific tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This month’s carnival was an opportunity for nonprofit bloggers to share a post that addressed this question: What self-care techniques, rituals, or habits do you personally live and breath everyday that keep you inspired, calm, and effective at your nonprofit? I particularly like the advice about “monotasking.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

I'll just end with Beth Kanter's blogging advice rings true: I'll start off the advice with try to get into the habit of writing regularly. Link to other bloggers. Because of her, I made a donation to Global Giving in support of The Sharing Foundation. in frequency, quality, and depth. Write about what interests you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2008

So, I took her advice to update the firmware. Well, Nokia's user support isn't the most intuitive. Instead, I registered the phone warranty and found the support phone numbers. I took a deep breath, dialed, and braced myself for an unpleasant technical and customer support experience. s blogger outreach program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2008

Mean Lux is a blogger in Cambodia and was one of the organizers of the Cambodia Bloggers Summer last August. He's a supporter (in spirit) of the Sharing Foundation's work - they don't use credit cards in Cambodia and so can't use the Global Giving page ). Flickr Photo. He just emailed me to let me know that he got a promotion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

How can PledgeBank help me and other bloggers change the world? " You can use the site to find others to help you get something done -- folks have used the site for a wide variety of projects, all needing broad support to actually work. All in all, PledgeBank can help you find a community of support for your ideas.

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Care2

MARCH 27, 2009

The interesting thing about this effort is that it’s not campaign-based, or a spurt of activity for a defined period of time, but actually an ongoing relationship that can continue to build over the long term, again defined by what is valuable to their supporters. Stop planning, just start.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2009

I opened a support ticket after the site was restored, and a few hours later got this response: I consulted with our admin staff about this issue. The geeks are rolling their eyes at the obvious advice, but the average, every day blogger with a self-hosted install doesn’t think of these things. Was I hacked? Just do it.

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BoardAssist

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

” That’s what guest blogger Hayley Samuelson of Catchafire reminds us in this week’s post, perfectly timed given Thanksgiving this week. . If the cause is something they are particularly passionate about, host an event that brings in the people or community you support. Focus on the long term from the get go.

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BoardAssist

AUGUST 11, 2015

This week’s guest blogger, nonprofit consultant Stephanie Spindell argues that a clear analytical process should be followed before jumping into any new business venture. Sounds like good advice to us, Stephanie. If you can’t support this effort financially, there are many ways to find skilled volunteers.).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Socialbrite draws on a team of experts whose practical, easy-to-grasp advice will help organizations find social media success. Amy Sample Ward, a strategist who supports and educates clients in the nonprofit and social change sectors. Katrin Verclas, co-founder and editor of MobileActive.org and past executive director of NTEN.

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BoardAssist

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

We asked guest blogger Lincoln Arneal to lay out the details for nonprofits that want to know more, in this week’s post. Thanks for the advice Lincoln! . Others that do know, don’t understand how easy it is to get and use a Google AdWords Grant. Is Your Nonprofit using Google’s Free AdWords Grant?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Ask Supporters to Share It! Blog, Annotate, and Let Your Supporters Help. It’s also worthwhile to partner with influential bloggers and online community leaders to get your video shared across networks. Never underestimate the power of a direct ask – reach out to people and organizations in your network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

Given the theme of the campaign was to honor my Dad’s love of the ocean and surfing and I was supporting Surf Rider Foundation, I used the surf theme to name each giving level after particular type of wave. Social Proofing Helps Generate Donations. It is no longer a linear journey up a ladder or pyramid.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Between 2006 and 2009, TechSoup hosted open challenges to identify and provide support for innovative projects that harnessed these and other technologies for social good. And they [had] a clear mechanism for supporting and engaging with those projects," according to Webb. Ushahidi Harnesses Data for Social Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2007

From Nhung Son's Facebook Photos Two weeks ago, Blogger Michele Martin , set up an America's Giving Challenge widget for the Sharing Foundation to support the project over at Global Giving. Other bloggers have also signed up to participate and many have. Link to other bloggers. thanks so much. Leave comments and connect.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2007

I am often asked for advice from nonprofits that want to start a blog. Being an organization's blogger involves not only writing for the blog, but also building relationships with other bloggers by reading them, linking to them, commenting on their blogs and inviting them to comment on your blog. Read blogs. Post consistently.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2012

Support other Circle members with their successes and challenges. The e-clinic includes five hours of training and personal coaching via webinars where you'll learn how to create a relevant blog that keeps supporters tuned in to your nonprofit. Share your blogging goals for the week. Celebrate your successes. Shoot me an email.

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BoardAssist

AUGUST 26, 2014

Guest blogger Allison Gauss offers some terrific advice this week on how to be most effective when you follow up. In a survey asking donors why they stopped supporting an organization, 53% cited poor communication with the nonprofit. One of the biggest reasons for that is donor retention. Thanks for the helpful post Allison!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

The criticism was that Owyang's advice was not sophisticated enough. Charback's witty post describes a fictional (but ripped from the headlines) situation of a corporate blogger who has to address a customer's negative, vocal, but accurate criticism on the customer's blog. transparency???, Social media brings out the extremes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

residents to show their support for the 43 million refugees around the world leading up to World Refugee Day on June 20th. The challenge is that typically refugees are so far removed from our “normal” lives that we don’t automatically think of giving to organizations that work to support them. Click Image to see larger version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2008

She announced on her blog, " I use Twitter to fight Cancer " and without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas. Just today, I got a Twitter question from DeafMom asking for advice. (I

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 10, 2015

In honor of Ken Blanchard 's and Mark Miller 's book, Great Leaders Grow , I welcome guest blogger Ken Blanchard. More often than not, we find that leaders lull themselves into thinking they are top-flight leaders because they think they use a supportive or coaching style, which someone told them are "good" leadership styles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

" So, I'm sharing a little getting started advice, a mini-case study, and a list of resources. Project sunrise, the provincial government led organization (supported by Canadian Urban institute) happened to post their videos and I was given permission to post them in the blog. YouTube is also good in finding videos about Guimaras.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Her reflection questions: How might young people use social networks (existing or yet-to-be-built) to learn about philanthropy and support causes that matter to them? Some advice from the report: Find your Wired Fundraisers: Find the people that are passionate about your cause and reaching your target audience. How does your charity???s

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

In honor of the book release I welcome guest blogger Ken Blanchard. More often than not, we find that leaders lull themselves into thinking they are top-flight leaders because they think they use a supportive or coaching style, which someone told them are "good" leadership styles.

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