Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

This year, we asked school principals to don super hero costumes and ride the new indoor zip line at the Mall of America. This year, we had all four local TV stations cover our morning event and counted 26 live shots in three hours! The principals brought their students to celebrate the moment and show their school spirit.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

As a firm, our family of 2,600 professionals across 17 global offices engages in volunteer opportunities throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Whether by leveraging employee match, deploying disaster assistance funds or investing in local non-profits through our local grants program, we leverage our resources to contribute to society.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Examples of Successful UVPs Let’s look at some organizations that have mastered the UVP in their messaging: Feeding America: On its donation page, Feeding America clearly states where the money goes. Every dollar you give can provide at least 10 meals to families in need through the Feeding America network of food banks.”

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

From locally owned neighborhood shops to the largest corporations, all companies can easily establish corporate giving programs and give back to the causes they care about. Community Grants Some companies offer community grants to help out local nonprofits in need. What Are the Benefits of Corporate Giving?

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Participants will acquire a foundational understanding of this increasingly important component of fundraising strategy and will be able to identify and distinguish between the most common planned giving vehicles. Northern California Grantmakers and Silicon Valley Community Foundation / San Francisco, CA / $350. State/Local.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project. Over the past 20 years of providing capacity programs online, I’ve faced my share of bandwidth challenges. That’s why we will not rely solely on online channels to facilitate discussions. We did this on Day 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Elevate America a workforce development program, that provides one million vouchers for Microsoft e-learning courses and select certification exams at no cost to recipients. Lisa Brummel, SVP, Human Resources, Microsoft; Tom Moran, United Way Loaned Executive; Rajesh Munshi; Xiang Li, Givology; Adnan Mahmud, Jolkona Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

The Mobile Active post provides some additional context about how the campaign was funded and mentions other Text-to-Give campaigns in America. The program is made possible through a partnership of the National Football League , Mobile Accord , United Way, and the Mobile Giving Foundation , and supported by VeriSign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2014

Note from Beth: Over the last year, I’ve been facilitating a peer learning network of community foundations, grantees of the Knight Foundation, that are hosting Giving Days throughout the year. Participants are learning and sharing best practices. This post was cross-posted on the Knight Foundation blog here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitated a peer exchange of community foundations that are hosting GivingDays using the Knight Foundation GivingDay Playbook , a guide with templates, tips, and examples hosting a successful day of giving. Luckily, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel.

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APRIL 28, 2021

The Teach For America Story: Creating Exceptional Constituent Experiences. Advocates on local and national levels provide direct service to over 150K children and families each year. Fundraising at Scale: How Salesforce Helped the CDC Foundation Raise More Funds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. The Local Story: This is about a specific local community and how your project serves them. 10: Leverage the momentum of a local or national Giving Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

” Part 1 was about NGOs in Cambodia , focusing on the work of the Sharing Foundation. This post is about the social media community in Cambodia. In 2007, Javier was kind enough to give me a tour of their office and introduce me to the awesome women on his staff working on Khmer localization of linux and gender blogging.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And so how do you facilitate that discussion about 100% board giving? The other thing that you’re going to do to facilitate that conversation is you’re going to. That’s how we facilitate it. . I’ve worked with those foundations. I know those foundations. Well, it starts with recruitment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

Last week, I read Jocelyn Harmon’s post about Nonprofit Facebook Fail and in the comments, Petri Darby refers to the dramatic increase of visits to his nonprofit’s Make-A-Wish Foundation Web site. Guest Post by Petri Darby, Make-A-Wish Foundation. Here’s how we’re doing it: 1. First-Person Storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India, the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation, invited me to present as part of the Global CSR track in a session about reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid with technology and social media. Geoff talks about three different approaches used in America (Mission, Problem, and Family).

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

So that is what we explore in depth in our certificate in philanthropic psychology at our institute, how can we, through fundraising in the charitable sector, facilitate the love that people can have, not only for those easily lovable, but also for the people that might be most difficult for us to love. Well, it’s my favorite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I'm writing this post from 30,000 feet aboard Virgin America as I fly back to California from a whirlwind week on the East Coast. followed by 20-30 minutes of discussion with the audience facilitated by the hosts. Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. The format was ten minutes of speaking (no Powerpoint allowed!), This is just a sampling.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And is a really great and pretty highly esteemed trainer and facilitator. In fact, he was named one of the 10 best retreat facilitators in America. What could you do and I want you to write in the chat and it’d be great if Steve you could help me kind of facilitate some of this. Steven: I love it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

While many of the women had traveled the world, many of them had also devoted their lives to local solutions. We had women who had expertise in community organizing, micro-finance, facilitation and leadership development. You both just came back from the 2010 West African Women and Water Training in Ghana.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2016

As part of the report release, I wrote this guest post on the Knight Foundation blog called “ In Wake of Giving Day Tech Failure, Here’s What We Have Learned ,” and sharing here on my blog. For its part, Kimbia, the tech platform for Give Local America, conducted a forensic analysis of its system.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Editors’ note: This article is from the Summer 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly , “Owning Our Economy, Owning Our Future. ”.

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