Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Some things have not changed: Time and attention are finite. Stories need to be compelling, immersive, human, funny, or provocative to capture attention. Marcelo talked about how humor can capture attention. Positive Impact. Empowerment. Digital media comprised of paid, owned, hybrid, and earned media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

I’ve been committed to working on technology capacity building for organizations serving Women and Girls empowerment. The One Campaign has launched an open letter signed by 86 leading voices for women around the world. Each T2E program focuses on one or more critical issues facing women and girls.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A culture of learning encourages staff members to remain engaged and pay attention to new opportunities. Pay attention to their suggestions and see how providing learning options can help you succeed. . That’s not an example most nonprofits can relate to because their goal is impact rather than profit. . Good luck! .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States. … Read More

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

This can be a challenging and time-consuming process and requires constant attention to maintain your model over time. Is your nonprofit interested in using machine learning to grow your impact? Featured Photo: Send 100 Girls to STEM Camp in Nigeria by Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC). LEARN MORE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2012

Zero Divide published a report called “Funding Mobile Strategies for Social Impact: The Future is Now”. All this adds up to the why it is even more important to pay attention to Crowdsourcing platforms, social media, and rating sites can serve as useful feedback channels for nonprofits.

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Profit Student Review Empowerment 110

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Why Impact-Per-Dollar is a terrible, harmful way to measure nonprofit effectiveness. As Foundations Reimagine Themselves, They Should Give Attention to DEI in Operations. ” Opening Up Grants Processes Leads to More Equity’ After Slamming the Doors on Too Many Grantees, a New Approach Improved Our Foundation’s Impact.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

NCE Social Media

MAY 18, 2009

Empowerment of niches communities and small businesses – It used to be that only in a city someone could find others with a shared interest in an area outside of popular culture. People must also work harder to maintain their status since noteriety often lasts no more than a day and attention spans are brief.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

Carson talked about the impact of government cuts in California – and that it is going beyond effecting those in lower income neighborhoods and reaching a broader swath of individuals. Lack of lighting is associated with higher crime. Mobile Technology and Social Media and Real Time Learning.

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Social Media Mobile Professional Conference 101

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

It’s going to be called Social by Social: a practical guide to using new technologies to deliver social impact and it should be published and distributed by NESTA next month. If you give them tools for taking more control of their lives, they will pay you back in attention, support and even hard cash. Empowerment is unconditional.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Even if your organization isn't involved in this issue, these organizations' work offer great examples of how a theme month or day can bring attention to your mission. Get inspired to bring attention to your organization's cause. Empowerment, Shelter, and Support. Creating a World Without Violence Against Women.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

The shutter snappers at Keshet Dance Company based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico caught our judges' attention with their powerful slideshow titled "unlimited possibilities through dance," snapping up the first place prizes for best photo story. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts." " First Place Photo.

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Storytelling Award Digital Challenge 64

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

As time has gone on, my attention has shifted from the tactic of participation to the outcome of building community. Last year, our board and staff came together to develop a “theory of change” that connects the activities we do to the impact we seek. Let’s start with empowerment. More and more families showed up.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

engagejoe : Hmm…What about ‘using webby tools 2 organize ppl for impact on an array of issues, w/the goal of creating real world change?’ realize_ink : Q3: empowerment & ownership. Question #6 – something people always ask me: how do you measure impact of campaigns (esp w/ social media)?

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Campaign Org Social Media Measure 108

Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The new e-book Amplify Program Impact: 7 Trailblazer Strategies for Success with Salesforce shares the challenges and solutions facing many organisations looking to deliver best-in-class programs and services and what this means from a technology perspective. You’re ready to scale your impact – but are your IT systems ready?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Day 4: Action Learning Projects, Communicating After Workshop, and Managing Our Attention. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot. Social media practices are just that – they get strong and stay strong with practice – so success means consistent application and learning. Participants Own Their Learning.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

Make it social (leverage the impact of the group). Make it tangible (participants should feel like they have made a direct impact). Keeping campaigns simple, social, personal, creative and tangible might transform feeling overwhelmed into empowerment. Make it simple. Make it personal (create a human-to-human connection).

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

However, the judges were sure to point out that a social impact game shouldn't have to try to invent new game genres to create an experience where players can empathize with the characters. The empowerment of girls in third world countries is a topic many corporate sponsors are looking to endorse. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

Women and girls in particular have felt the impacts of a never-ending global health pandemic, conflict and displacement, and authoritarian government takeovers, to name a few. Together with our implementing partners, we have impacted the lives of over 4 million adolescent girls and young women in over 100 countries.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. It's the same thing in a development context.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

A lot of attention on team, it's probably the hardest thing because you have to keep getting out of your own way. We publish their stories, and from that experience, a big impact was that a lot of the women got their stories picked up. The most powerful impact we found was actually in the women's leadership and influence locally.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

This requires the global community to center the voices of people directly impacted by poverty in its approach and support solutions that empower children and their families. Center People Directly Impacted by Poverty. Together, we can galvanize a global movement to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty once and for all.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

There's a long fight ahead, but for issues that stir you, one simple, positive thing you can do today is give - your time, money, voice, or attention - because so many organizations need your urgent support. The last few days have been equal parts terrifying, challenging, and complicated. Donate | Take Action | Volunteer | Twitter | Facebook.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

I realized I had a platform where, for whatever reason, people would pay attention to me. CCF works directly in the dump to get the children out of this environment and bring them into one of five orphanages where they live, get educated, and get medical attention. How has it impacted their relationships, their sexuality, etc.?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. There are no men in Zimbabwe who are immune to these girls' attention. That's one thing, be aware that every photograph you take and share has a real impact. The leader, for example, of a religious movement.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

How do you know that you are making a difference or an impact; how do you measure that? For them, that was a measure of change and a measure of impact. BB: How do you know that you are successful? Maybe the best way to give you an analogy for that is when you drop a stone into a pond, it creates a ripple effect.

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