Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2012

The majority of the boards we saw were very much about lifestyle: pictures of pretty stuff, hot style, and cool design. For example, in the villages of rural Africa where Camfed works, local community members play an essential role in helping girls succeed in school. we hoped to see at least some activity – and we did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Zawadi has launched her own consulting firm and works with African nonprofits and social change activists on their social media and crowd funding campaigns. To better understand why this campaign was successful, the Africa Cancer Foundation conducted donor research and prepared this report. This campaign is a great example.

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CauseVox

JUNE 28, 2021

To help fund the jumps, encourage your jumpers to create personal fundraising pages online using CauseVox’s peer-to-peer fundraising software. Ask local businesses to sponsor a team, or get people to fundraise to fund their participation like The First Tee of Greater St. Personal challenges can take all forms! Holiday Fundraiser.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Yes, their manager likely has the big picture in mind, but who knows better how the changes in the last year transformed their world than the person doing it? The post Training Nonprofit Staff & Volunteers Effectively in 5 Steps appeared first on Get Fully Funded. What problems still vex them? Mary’s University of Minnesota.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. They need to see the bigger picture and their place in impacting the people you serve.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

The Scoop: Perhaps one of the most buzzed about crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter is a way to fund projects. Kickstarter makes it clear that it isn't for direct charity or cause funding, but about project creation. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected. Kickstarter.

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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. The story here is of how 1 child dies of Malaria in Africa every 45 seconds. This is my guest post on Care2′s Frogloop blog.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The Scoop: Perhaps one of the most buzzed about crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter is a way to fund projects. Kickstarter makes it clear that it isn't for direct charity or cause funding, but about project creation. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected. Kickstarter.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

web projects we think the federal government should fund. These are internet-related projects which we think are worthy of funding because they address important civic problems, they will catalyze important work by others, they are imminently scalable, and they are projects which the private sector lacks sufficient incentives to undertake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

   In an email interview, Laura Zaks, Public Affairs Coordinator, shared with me this sad story of devastation and the urgent need for funds to help PROFAMIL resume services through a temporary static clinic and Mobile Health Units to deliver services in tent cities where displaced persons have gathered.

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

Since 2010, Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) and Candid have partnered on research that maps funding for human rights globally. Over this time, we have had a glaring omission: our research has not captured funding related to race or ethnicity, despite significant and global human rights work in this area. Even in the U.S.,

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Candid

JULY 21, 2021

Our respective organizations join in collaboration each year with Ariadne—European Funders for Social Change and Human Rights, and Prospera—International Network of Women’s Funds, to conduct this research and provide the single most comprehensive analysis of where philanthropic money goes for human rights around the world. We documented $3.7

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Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2010

Mission inspired gifts specifically, or using ecommerce to allow supporters to “purchase” certain tangible objects that reflect what funds are used for in supporting an organization’s mission, have proven to be an effective way of harnessing these elements in raising funds online.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Working together, citizens could piece together news stories as well as facts from witnesses as they emerged to create the most complete picture of events. The bombings created confusion and as people were able to put details together for themselves, they did so in a way that others could learn and follow the developments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

That’s why we added in a general profile picture and some text around the organization’s impact beforehand, all in the voice of the fundraiser, so that the page is engaging even if it’s not updated by the individual fundraisers. If S/HE raises $3,000, S/HE could qualify for a trip to one of their programs in South Africa!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). He showed so much leadership and promise that we ended up sponsoring him to a university through our FORGE education fund. What brought you here? Mainly it was luck.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And obviously, the majority of the funds are raised in the capital campaign. What’s our capacity to raise those funds? ” Sickle cell is kind of a low, you know, visibility, but a high mortality rate in East Africa, and it’s not being addressed. Brian: You know, adding that to your annual fund is key.

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Candid

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Building on a decade of collaborative research , the latest report contributes to our collective understanding of where and how funding supports human rights action around the world. billion in human rights funding in 2019, a 10% increase from 2018 and a 242% increase over the past 10 years. Showcasing the latest findings.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Big thanks to Marsha (pictured here with Malena Ruth, President of the African Millenium Foundation) and Dining for Women for including us. For $27/month you provide one woman with the funds for basic necessities for her family and for job training. Wangari Maathai women philanthropy africa giving circle

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

Green technology spurs mobile payments development in Africa. Philanthropic organizations fund grassroots initiatives focusing on the individual followed by the institutional rather than the reverse. And the flow of talent between the business and nonprofit sector blurs the lines between the two types of organizations.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Fund their work! Since beginning her career, the immensely talented Ava DuVernay has experienced some significant "firsts" - she was the first African American female director to receive a Golden Globe nomination and the first to have her film, Selma , nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture - but she's not finished yet.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 23, 2022

Using Salesforce to track camps, board members, and committees, as well as grant management on the Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud with a transition from Blackbaud Grants to Outbound Funds, HGF has achieved a more transparent view of engagement and granting proficiency. Phase 3: Optimizing the PJ Library Publishing Team.

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Achieve

JUNE 7, 2021

We’re talking about a well-planned, results-oriented training program that addresses the funding of your nonprofit’s mission—. As leaders, they need to see the whole picture of what’s possible so they can make informed decisions and best set their teams up for success. That’s where they must become experts. much of it online.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. was designed for Africa and costs more. The Big Picture.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2022

These advocates are your organization’s booster squad; they’ll augment your ongoing fundraising efforts by raising funds on your behalf – and in some really creative ways. When your team of advocates champion your cause and raise funds, they’ll start with their family, friends, and colleagues. Grows Awareness Organically.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2022

These advocates are your organization’s booster squad; they’ll augment your ongoing fundraising efforts by raising funds on your behalf – and in some really creative ways. When your team of advocates champion your cause and raise funds, they’ll start with their family, friends, and colleagues. Grows Awareness Organically.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

These advocates are your organization’s booster squad; they’ll augment your ongoing fundraising efforts by raising funds on your behalf – and in some really creative ways. When your team of advocates champion your cause and raise funds, they’ll start with their family, friends, and colleagues. Grows Awareness Organically.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Keeping with this year's topic, I wanted to share with you an inspiring video about Women's Earth Alliance's Global Women's Water Initiative (GWWI) in Africa. 2010 West African Women & Water Training Program from Unseen Pictures on Vimeo. I figure Friday is a good day to take a little break and watch a video, right?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Photos of people are particularly compelling, so gather pictures of volunteers, beneficiaries, and community members. Create a photo slideshow so those who attended the event can click through to see if they ended up in any pictures. If your nonprofit has an environmental focus, nature photos can also be captivating.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

And funding opportunities, I’ve experienced, start to kind of just roll in. So, for example, when we were working on a community policing project, I used to work in Minnesota, and about 15 years ago, we had another wave of immigrants, refugees that came from Southeast Asia and different countries from Africa. So think about that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Twiplomacy : This site summarizes a global study of world leaders on Twitter and links to each country of the world with statistics and highlights of users (here’s Africa for example). The governments of more than three-quarters (77.7%) of the 193 UN member countries have a presence on Twitter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

She has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund, and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development. In the very, very beginning, Matt and I had this idea like, "How neat would it be if we had individual, real people on our web site with their needs, and the amount of funding that they need?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

This challenge benefited the Cambodian Children's Fund out of Cambodia. Of those 100, 20 people actually raised the $20,000, but those 80 people, who didn't raise the $20,000, still raised significant funds so that all together we ended up raising $524,000 that benefited CCF. Of course, it came down to, as it should, funding.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

If not director of a school, I would like to be someone of importance, someone of value again.'"--Honorata (pictured left) about her experience with Women for Women International. Sponsors give $27/month to fund a survivor's basic needs, as well as seed money to start income generating projects.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

Now what about painted a picture on a napkin in a restaurant? Has anyone ever seen giant puppets in the streets for a protest, or seen pictures of that? I worked in East Africa with an organization called Care Kenya, working with women around sustainable agriculture issues. Can I just see? laughter] OK. laughter] OK. Not really?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

However, I thought I’d back up the theory with a brief picture of what this kind of travel looks like in practice. Took pictures of the lunar eclipse next to the Empire State Building(!) We’re a former grantee and we hope that our work and Gates funding priorities coincide again in the future. So, we fill in for them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

So, that's our kind of big-picture understanding of what is going on. So, for us, that is kind of like our bigger picture. So we have got a funding source that is secure and we have also got the City Council, they haven't taken a vote yet, but all the members seem to be very supportive. How do we make sure? How do you do that?

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