Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

My recommendation to the advocacy community is to continue to pursue a “yes-and” approach, as we have so far with the TVI and the Stakeholders’ Platform. I’m measuring this entire effort by how it much it does to change this sorry state of affairs, in both the short and long term. residents with disabilities and globally.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

In 2017, Equal Measures 2030 —an independent civil society and private sector-led partnership—was established in order to connect data and evidence with advocacy and action as a means to drive gender equality and reach the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. . The future for Equal Measures 2030.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2021

Beyond distributing two billion COVID-19 vaccines to the most vulnerable and remote communities in the world, the Alliance aims to build vaccine confidence, champion equitable access to vaccines globally, and raise critical funds for vaccine rollout and emergency response. UNICEF is the largest buyer and distributor of vaccines worldwide.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

It takes a strategic approach, strong advocacy, and collaboration to secure the funding that ensures your organization can continue its valuable work. Think global. Measure outcomes. You can’t measure this impact solely by the dollars raised.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

An Interview with Fanny Villiers , Directora General of Donadora – an official partner of the Global Trends in Giving Report ( en español ). Under 45 and giving micro-amounts is pretty much matching with our own analysis, but at Donadora we don’t measure political views of our community, so I can’t answer on this point.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A total of 115 people from nonprofits, corporations, and advocacy groups joined us for a day of discussion, collaboration, and inspiration. The abundance mindset also applies to how we measure our impact and work together. The Zero Hunger Summit was one of those spaces. The Future of Food Assistance.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2021

Since 2017, Forum One has served as a long-term digital transformation and support partner to the Alliance for Justice , a national coalition of advocacy organizations dedicated to ensuring equal justice in a diverse society. 2021 State of Babies Yearbook (Zero to Three). Arcturus – Branded Content.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Global Movement.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Coordinate analysis and writing work with human rights monitoring and advocacy organizations, academic collaborators, and courts throughout the world.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 19, 2018

From these small seeds at the community level we can measure injustice and wasted potential, and turn this into powerful advocacy tools in the fight for women and girls to be seen. At Equal Measures 2030 we strive to bring data and evidence to the fight because we know that counting matters.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Has your mission pivoted due to a global or local event? This input can help you measure the success and impact of your programming more objectively. The descriptive language to describe their nonprofit makes it abundantly clear that they are an advocacy organization that focuses on strengthening youth activism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

” Marnie Webb, Co-CEO of TechSoup Global was not only writing one, but evangelizing to nonprofit techies about social media (called Web 2.0 TechSoup has just released the results of a global study if NGOs about cloud computing with some interesting findings. Cloud Computing Survey Results from TechSoup Global.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 2, 2021

Evaluate budgets, performance measurements, and conclusions from the business plan annually and make adjustments as needed. Latinos Contra el Cáncer is a national ACS movement that aims to empower the Latino community with the resources necessary to lead the fight against cancer through advocacy, education and fundraising.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2016

How do you measure and establish the processes that can best realize this change? Serving 236 countries and territories, TechSoup is an international network of 63 NGOs that leverages technology to build nonprofit capacity and help solve social problems locally and globally. How do you open up a design process that works? unfoundation.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

We hope this information will be useful in a multitude of ways, from ongoing advocacy efforts to capturing the sector’s story to helping local leaders build greater resiliency. Respondents to the Center for Effective Philanthropy raised philanthropy’s role in advancing systems change and engaging in policy, especially advocacy and organizing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Recently, I've been getting a question like that goes something like this, "All this social media stuff is great if you're fund raising or selling something or running a grassroots advocacy campaign, but what if you're focusing on carefully vetted scientific research or want to impact policy? They rely only on credible sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Note from Beth: Last month during one of our book talks for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , ” at TechSoup Global, Rachel Weidinger from Upwell came up to say hello. Even better, we discovered that we can use this practice to both inform and measure campaigns.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

The Gender Parity Index is a UNESCO measurement of access to education for both males and females. Jane Meseck , senior director of global programs at Microsoft Philanthropies. Law and Advocacy. Last year, U.S. women became the majority of law students. Shortfalls. Philanthropy. Nonprofit Technology Leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. NpTech Conversations.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Like many other Millennials, my formative years have been filled with terrorism, financial crisis, equality struggles and global warming. Over 20 years, we’ve experienced a rising tide of societal issues that seem insurmountable. But, we’ve chosen to take action!

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives. Real-Time Nonprofit Strategic Planning Model The real-time nonprofit strategic planning model is useful when your nonprofit is in the midst of a crisis, like an economic recession or national/global catastrophe.

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Care2

MAY 18, 2011

Whether it's political or personal, global or local, funded or a grassroots effort, organizations and communities are campaigning for change in many ways, all of the time. What do you measure every day, week, month, year? Start with Metrics. How do you evaluate your programs and services? Revisit your Story. You have one.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

—– Whether it’s political or personal, global or local, funded or a grassroots effort, organizations and communities are campaigning for change in many ways, all of the time. What do you measure every day, week, month, year? This is my guest post on Care2′s Frogloop blog. Start with Metrics. Revisit your Story.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared community is hosting free monthly technology meetups in 74 cities globally, but with more than 39,000 members, it can be hard to get a sense of the community's needs. Every month our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. Thursday, January 12, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Michele Martin has an excellent post about how to make the most of Netvibes, an RSS reader, for nonprofit applications such as advocacy, marketing, and customer service. John Bell of the 360 Digital Influence Blog says " It's Time for Measurement of Social Media " which looks at the ROI and identifies some success metrics.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Often, an effective title (e.g.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Often, an effective title (e.g.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Ever wanted to use open data in support of your advocacy campaigns? We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. New York, New York: Measuring What Matters, The Easy Way. Or learn how to use Excel better? Need help finding the right WordPress plugin for your website? Don't be shy — come join us!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Wordle of Words Participants Use To Define ROI Yesterday I taught the fifth and final webinar as part of NTEN/TechSoup Global Webinar Series: Social Media and Storytelling. Does return always have to be represented in $, or if you're an advocacy group, couldn't we look at e-petition signatures, volunteers?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Michael Johnston is the president and founder of the global fundraising consultancy, Hewitt and Johnston Consultants (hjc), and the co-founder of two global fundraising products, The Global Legacy Giving Group and the sports-based Fantasy Fundraising. For example, giving support for advocacy organizations in the U.S.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) The best measure a lot (but not too much).

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2018

Couple the Cambridge Analytica fallout with the onset of GDPR, and we now see not just Facebook, but Google and other platforms taking measures to limit the ways we can utilize data, and we expect these types of shifts to continue. Personalization means a more focused marketing spend. Why You Should Keep GDPR in Your News Alerts.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Every nonprofit, big or small, stands to gain from working towards a common global goal. From a place of political neutrality, Sweden found that environmental pollution could be an issue of potential cooperation between members of the UN, and hosting a conference on that topic would help boost the UN’s global perception.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

And they’re certainly not exempt from a global pandemic. Closures and social distancing measures have wiped out organizations that didn’t have a rainy day fund. responding to a global pandemic is a matter of doubling-down on what they know. That network supports local leaders in improving education policy through advocacy.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2015

Check out the Forum for Sustainable & Responsible Investment's chart (click on the Screening & Advocacy tab) to find mutual funds that invest in companies who make a positive impact on the environment (or that avoid companies who are particularly bad. is involved in green or socially responsible investing.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Author’s Note: Recently, we used paid social ads to help a global nonprofit, Humanity & Inclusion , gain insights into their target audience. We’d run the ads and measure which message was most engaging. You can read the full Humanity & Inclusion case study here.

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