sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The practice of participatory evaluation aims to disrupt power dynamics, and to generate knowledge as a result of collaboration. Participatory evaluation is based on the premise that everyone has knowledge; everyone has biases; and the people closest to an issue know the most about it. It promotes mutuality instead of extraction.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Two months in, I have tested many of Candid’s tools and, in the interest of helping fellow nonprofit students, I’m sharing the inside scoop on free resources that provide quality information and can support our development. . Additionally, GuideStar is a helpful tool for post-graduation job hunting. Real-time response tools .

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EveryAction

MARCH 29, 2023

From our friends at Media Cause If you are an organization that does advocacy—particularly if you’re wondering how to grow your supporter base and build more people power to achieve your purpose—then this is the blog for you. What makes them the heroes here, and how can you lean into that?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This blog post was originally published on 12/11/2021. Over the course of a three-year grant , Champions implement ambitious, goal-oriented projects and participate in advocacy campaigns aimed at changing local and national policies that hinder equal access to education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

" She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link. executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation.

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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). For many nonprofits, it’s far more obvious that such tools can be useful than how to use them. Event management? How about fundraising?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Now more than ever it’s crucial that your NGO knows the basics of a successful online fundraising campaign and has knowledge of emerging online fundraising trends in order to prepare for the future. Others options: crowdfunding, peer-to-peer fundraising, event registration and ticketing, database integration, advocacy, and online stores.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

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). Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011."

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In fact, storytelling encompasses blog writing, advertising, and stewardship efforts. To get you started, consider if you want your organization to come across as: Knowledgeable. You can also use your blog page as a valuable storytelling resource. Your story goes far beyond simply telling the tale of how you got started.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Here are some live blogging notes from the SXSW session. The creation and communication of this knowledge occurs in social networks of relationships, empowered by social media. Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. 350: robust advocacy.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

She has tremendous knowledge on managing the day-to-day challenges of fundraising and enjoys facilitating the decision-making process with clients. In addition to fiduciary and governance duties, nonprofit board duties also include playing a lead role in the organization’s fundraising and advocacy efforts.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2009

As I announced recently , Advocacy Online and Fairsay have jointly produced a benchmark report to examine key e-campaigning performance measures. There are lots of places where actions could be included to be more visible, like the above note of including them on background information (or blog posts!). Download Reports.

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Care2

APRIL 6, 2011

While 1/3 of survey respondent’s say they prefer online tools for advocacy, 49% say they get their news the old fashion way – major national newspapers. 16% said it made less of an impact. Approximately one-quarter (24%) believes the impact is about the same and 33% either did not know or did not answer the question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

To understand networks and their value as a social media trainer’s tool. To model and practice integrating the use of social media tools and networked approaches to document, deliver, and share learning. I created the above visual using wordle to represent our collective knowledge and skills. Nerds, Geeks, and Hackers.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. That is how change happens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

They are experts in using social media as part of their multi-channel advocacy campaigns. They are also experts in reflecting and learning about what works and what doesn’t with social media and I’m lucky that they have offered to continue sharing their knowledge on my blog! You’ll learn lots.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In 264 pages, Dixon, with ten years of classroom experience in public, private and charter schools, shares his deep knowledge of social media to provide detailed descriptions of the best online tools available for school leaders. Long gone are the days of open houses and photocopied newsletters.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 24, 2021

advocacy opportunities, matching gift and volunteer grant information, event calendar, and more. Blog: This includes quick blog post updates about your nonprofit’s work, supporter and constituent testimonials, and even long-form educational posts. For our site, the domain is “dnlomnimedia.com.”.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

Like the Pew Internet & American Life Project , we believe that over the next decade most people will access software applications online using several different types of devices rather than depending primarily on tools and information housed on their individual, personal computers. And how we do that when getting the answer is urgent."

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" You might check out some of the online advocacy and fundraising benchmark studies.

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Social Network ROI Social Media Network 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 22, 2013

They respond to localized needs, are absolutely critical to community building, and are staffed by people with deep knowledge and caring for the communities where they live and work. If you don’t have adequate resources to develop your own financial tools, borrow templates from a peer organization or bring on staff or board members (or both!)

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" You might check out some of the online advocacy and fundraising benchmark studies.

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Social Network ROI Social Media Network 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2015

” Employee Advocacy: “People are going to use social networks on their own anyway, so why not take a centered approach and give them the tools and knowledge they need to do it in a way that benefits everyone? We all want to feel valued and useful beyond just doing our job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote about the launch of LinkedIn’s Board Connect tool that helps nonprofit identify potential board candidates through searching the networks of their board members on LinkedIn. Now I serve on the board of Praxis Housing.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Read blogs, get into social networks, register at Digg and then go sit in a corner and listen.

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Social Media Campaign Advocacy Online 28

NTEN

MAY 24, 2010

Beth's new blog! (I And true to her good form, Beth doesn't simply announce her new site , she reflects on all the steps and experiences that got her to the new site, which is pretty informative and inspiring in itself(but that shouldn't surprise anyone who regularly reads Beth's Blog). Members are in bold. Thanks for sharing, Nancy!

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2015

The best part: he wants to share his experience and knowledge with anyone interested doing good and cultivating change. But before entering the world of politics and advocacy, Justin began his career in the realm of sports PR. Justin is a U.S. senior campaigner for the world’s largest petitioning platform, Change.org.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" John February 26, 2009 | John Haydon I recently came across your blog and have been reading along.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

Sometimes I feel like there''s an encyclopedia of online advocacy, fundraising, and social media stuck in my head. While I have close to two decades of experience in the nonprofit field and love to share my experiences and data, I’m lucky to be surrounded by such smart nptech folks who share their knowledge with me.

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Resource India Case Study Nonprofit 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Their time is spent on three areas: (1) monitoring and analyzing online conversations, (2) leading data-driven attention campaigns, and (3) sharing knowledge with the sector. The tools we use to do this work are not immediately obvious. We’re repurposing a commercial tool to monitor an issue, but using it in a very different way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

The big challenge with training is the challenge of transfer - after people go through a training - do they actually put the knowledge and skills into practice? Already, some of our advocacy work is progressing in large part because of savvy use of social media (see our blog about chemicals and toxics ). What did we do?

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Social Media Media Remix Social 94

Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" You might check out some of the online advocacy and fundraising benchmark studies.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" May 11, 2009 | Caitlin Jennings Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. BTW, there's an interesting discussion about this on David Armano's blog). My definition is that your knowledge lives in the clouds. Connections also be strong or loose.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" His firm, Avencia , is an award winning GIS consultancy.

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Forj

JULY 5, 2017

For more information on the role of education and performance improvement, read our blog post on How Medicare Payment Changes will Drive Performance Improvement. Shawn Martin , Senior Vice President, Advocacy, Practice Advancement, and Policy, . Shawn Martin , Senior Vice President, Advocacy, Practice Advancement, and Policy, .

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