Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

Tuan , project manager, for the Fund for Shared Insight. And, more disturbingly, even though a majority of foundation CEOs believe seeking beneficiary feedback will increase their impact, fewer than half of nonprofits receive funding to collect feedback. Fund for Shared Insight is trying to change that. Carefully Map Out Timing.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Impact investors fund organizations that sell products that lead to positive social outcomes. However, there’s an interesting twist: those foundations with endowments (largely private foundations) are now using their capital, which is usually invested in more traditional financial products, to fund impact investments.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

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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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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. people able to draw on own knowledge), and aggregation (i.e.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The workshop was presented by the Colorado Association of Funders and the Colorado Nonprofit Association and sponsored by Gill Foundation , Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado , The Colorado Health Foundation , and The Colorado Trust. The Environmental Defense Fund has used the game for an internal training for 300 people.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

aggregation without losing an adequate degree of quality)? Some of the key issues: how to get researchers, institutions, and governments to share and collaborate on their work. how to organize and make accessible the huge quantity of data that already exists (and that will grow as sharing increases).

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Companies like MaxMind and IP2Location update their databases regularly so you don’t need to figure out the mapping of IPs. Getting funds to your nonprofit is a process dependent on APIs. A prime example of what APIs can achieve with relative ease is optimizing content for web visitors based on location. Donations and Payments.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Serve as an information resource to community beyond grantees – grantees arent the only ones who could use a little networking – you can aggregate and share community data, information about funding and learning opportunities, and mapping tools like the Google Earth Outreach Program.

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2007

Serve as an information resource to community beyond grantees – grantees arent the only ones who could use a little networking – you can aggregate and share community data, information about funding and learning opportunities, and mapping tools like the Google Earth Outreach Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If There are two sets of social roles here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

put it in a UK context , we're seeing a new voluntary sector emerge, and if organizations want to survive and win funding they're going to have to show (i) greater accountability to stakeholders (ii) collaborate and share and (iii) embrace new technology, ie, web 2.0 Perhaps we could do give people a 'sand pit' for them to try out web 2.0

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Forum One

DECEMBER 7, 2023

By using shaded maps, clear data points, and red/yellow/green indicators, users can easily identify areas in need of improvement. First, they aggregate findings into broad categories such as Housing, Transportation, and Environment. The Livability Index bridges these gaps in several ways.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

If you think that a mash-up of online tools for capacity mapping and resource matching would assist nonprofits, philanthropies, and the communities that they serve, then we invite you join us at our upcoming session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. I think that our best hope is to work for incremental successes.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Your organization has a finite amount of funding that you can reasonably allocate to internal technological improvements. Outlining this general budget upfront ensures that you’re mapping out a plan that your team can actually execute from the start, rather than a dream scenario that’s simply impossible with your current funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

The sector deserves comprehensive and computable data that can be openly aggregated, searched, checked, and analyzed. This tool readily allows anyone — from the investigative journalist to the parent of a sick child — to see which hospitals are safest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. There is prize money available for the organizations attracting the most donors and funds. I wish I had the capacity to write a blog post about each of these links below. Take your pick!

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

This should be evident through consistent reporting, structured platforms and networks, and aggregated data around mapped outcomes. How can the sector find out about projects in need of funding? Finally, there’s a discussion in the sector about what I’ll call “market creation.”

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer. Our monitoring includes: Tweetdeck for iPhone Dual office monitors -- one for work, one for Tweetdeck "As it happens" Google Alerts for name, acronym, CEO's name An iGoogle dashboard aggregating web alerts Make your commenting policy known and fair.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

For instance, tech companies use algorithmic management to precisely surveil and manage the details of workers’ daily working conditions—tracking every delivery time, cataloging every customer review, mapping workers’ daily locations, even noting the length of bathroom breaks. 11 According to a 2017 report, 57.3

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