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How to Start a Nonprofit: 12 Essential Steps for Success

Bloomerang

the IRS defines nonprofits as “Organizations that are organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, educational or other specified purposes.” Starting a Nonprofit: Basic FAQs What is a nonprofit? In the U.S.,

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Nonprofit Blogging and Social Networking Policies: Examples?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Do any nonprofits have a formal blogging policy?

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Does Your Nonprofit Need Legal Counsel About Using Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the past couple of years as I’ve guide nonprofits in preparing their social media policies or when I speak, I get asked questions that are more legal questions than about social media. Here’s a sampling: Our organization does advocacy around some policy issues. How do the [.]

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Great reads from around the web on May 17th

Amy Sample Ward

million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science. We sampled 201 ChatRoulette sessions, noting characteristics such as group size and gender.

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Great reads from around the web on January 26th

Amy Sample Ward

Social Media: A Bubble About to Burst – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – "Are your nonprofit staffers addicted to social media? The only question: Is it a mere glitch or a natural extension of Apple’s policy that is generally indifferent to nonprofits and philanthropy?

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The CNN Lesson: There Is No Hiding on The Real-Time Web

Care2

What do news organizations like CNN and health advocacy organizations like the Susan G. They are examples of organizations that have been caught in the middle of a firestorm and don’t have the necessary policies in place to manage an online crisis immediately after it erupts. Komen Foundation have in common?

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New on SSIR: Effects of Joining the Conversation

Amy Sample Ward

The lessons in social media are especially important for organizations working with the public, whether it’s public service or opinion. Joining the conversation is incredibly important if these organizations expect to change policy and change minds. Joining the conversation really means conversations.