Greater Giving

JANUARY 4, 2024

The Dynamics of Donation Drives Inclusivity and Empowerment At its core, a donation drive fosters inclusivity, inviting people from diverse backgrounds and walks of life to participate. Membership Drives Encourage supporters to become members of your nonprofit with exclusive benefits, creating a recurring source of revenue.

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Qgiv

JULY 19, 2023

While applying to grants can be time consuming, they offer plenty of benefits to nonprofits, such as more awareness for your organization and a positive reputation for the work you do on top of the financial benefits. The Walmart Foundation provides local organizations with grants ranging from $250 to $5,000 to benefit the local area.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 19, 2021

You can instead embrace a mindset that benefits you and, by extension, the community you’re hoping to serve. . You now walk around with a sense of empowerment, knowing that you can solve problems that come up in your personal and professional worlds. . Understanding The Victim, The Survivor, and The Thriver Mindsets.

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Community Script Childhood Empowerment 81

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Culture focuses on empowerment, excellence, and gratitude to help define your organization’s interactions with donors. Empowerment is hard to define, but when it’s not present in an organization, it shines brightly. Far too often, our work is reactive and loses its true meaning. Cheers, Lynne.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Many foundations focus much of their philanthropy work on youth empowerment—and for good reason. The foundations on this list are just a few of the many that understand the importance that youth empowerment plays in helping young people from all backgrounds grow and excel during this critical stage of their life. Areas served: US.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted. And, the focus of MEL is generally on evaluating grantee projects or organizations, rather than on the grantmaker and its practices.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

Gerardo helped Benetech dramatically increase our capacity to benefit larger populations by scaling our services, revamping our innovation process, and establishing a thriving network of industry partners and volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The program hosts a delegation of women who work in the tech industry to share their knowledge and skills with women-focused nonprofits, startups and girls empowerment programs in developing countries and in the US. I am honored to be working with Wake International on their Tech2Empower Program in Cusco, Peru.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Consistent leadership – I’ve headed up the support team since the inception of Nimble AMS, which has given our team the benefit of a consistent leader for more than a decade. This has allowed us to continuously follow industry-leading best practices to benefit our customers. We don’t have a separate call center.

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Blue Fox

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Do you see the leverage and empowerment that comes with this kind of accounting setup? Have you considered the benefits? Here’s what that might look like for an environmental education nonprofit: wow - fix my quickbooks, quick Now, that's a 'QuickBooks for nonprofits' application we can get excited about!

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Kindful

AUGUST 17, 2021

Another immediate benefit of using technology like this is the opportunity for deeper donor engagement. The new and exciting ways of telling stories and connecting with donors through digital methods can foster a philanthropic culture of communication, participation, preparedness, and empowerment.

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

Similarly, Benefits Data Trust analyzed data from callers looking to enroll in public food assistance benefits in Philadelphia and created a machine learning model to predict which benefits might be most helpful. This dramatically reduced the time to get benefits to those in need. Is it worth the trouble? LEARN MORE.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

No one understands the value of pro bono volunteerism , and the benefits to everyone involved more than Lindsay Gruber, President, and CEO of Taproot Foundation. CT: There is a clear benefit to employees who are able to connect to their purpose and give back. Is there a collective benefit to the company? LG: Absolutely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Many organizations are working on similar projects and could benefit from shared resources. . Organizations want to prioritize responsibility but don’t know how.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Submitted by Britt Bravo, publisher of Have Fun • Do Good Should all nonprofits have a blog? Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

And without the benefit of board training, the organization lived in a time warp (with an outdated mission and name), floundering in its insular bubble. This proved to be a wonderful way to share nationally AbilityFirst’s empowerment philosophy. By the mid-1990s, the situation had grown dire.

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Twenty Hats

JUNE 7, 2021

Measuring volunteer impact benefits more that your program: it empowers YOU. As we welcome more and more millennials into our work and volunteer forces, we’re seeing that they are not willing to tolerate mismanagement or lack of empowerment in their jobs. The life of a volunteer manager can feel lonely.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 13, 2023

But now, as the Director of Marketing for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, I have the privilege of telling stories of empowerment and resilience. Fourteen years ago, I left television after an amazing experience that I wouldn’t change one bit!

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

There are numerous examples of nonprofit organizations benefiting from cross-sector alliances. One noted example is that of ChildFund International benefiting from its relationship with the for-profit organization TOMs shoes. “

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2019

According to recent findings, nonprofit organizations can capitalize on training, building a culture of empowerment and recognition programs in order to provide incentives to employees. The days of nonprofit organizations being places employees go for low pay, no benefits and long hours must be over.

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Effective Retention Illinois Technique 72

Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

Enter empowerment and encouragement. of storytelling at your nonprofit, library, charity, or social benefit. In fact, we know that storytelling done right is a multi-tiered process that requires working with staff, donors, and beneficiaries, oftentimes with additional effort to organize, produce, and publish assets to the web.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 20, 2019

The benefits of having your member management software built on Salesforce. As Salesforce celebrates 20 years in business, the Nimble AMS team reflects on the reasons why associations benefit from an AMS built on Salesforce. Benefits of the true cloud. This year, Salesforce celebrates 20 years in business. Data security.

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Associations Classes Platform Empowerment 60

Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

One volunteer manager at a maternal and child health organization in Canada described how moving online had the unexpected benefit of reaching hard-to-reach clients: “One of the positives that came out of the whole shutdown and being virtual was that we were able to provide service to clients in remote, rural communities.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 23, 2022

Empowerment is the greatest form of impact. While the obvious benefit is that nonprofits and schools are empowered by resources that might otherwise be out of reach, the value extends further. Because it’s not something you can give, but rather a way to unlock the potential in others.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. It creates an opportunity to have public benefit being balanced with business interests.

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Kindful

APRIL 8, 2021

Ask them if they would consider running a piece on your story and explain how the story will benefit their audience through education and empowerment. Remember, your pitch is your story. Tell them the struggle and communicate the emotion. Don’t be afraid to hear no—or nothing.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Densen has developed innovative programs ranging from demystifying the language of Wall Street for AARP Financial to an alliance focused on minority financial empowerment that brings together the ING Foundation with Girls Inc.

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Causes Marketing Benefit Empowerment 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2010

I wonder if the secret sauce is to do a cost/benefit analysis before you start preparing your favorite social media sauce? 10-15 questions: Use the questions to quantify the cost/benefits and then make the decision. Are there benefits beyond the money? Will the contest provide any long term benefits? Under 10: Pass.

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Contest ROI Online Fundraising 98

NCE Social Media

MAY 18, 2009

There are 7 things identified by Mediagiest that are benefits of social media. 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. I usually paraphrase blog posts I like but this one speaks for itself.

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Social Media Media Social Empowerment 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2012

Nonprofits will benefit from detailed information about program strengths and shortcomings. We know that when low-income families can access other people’s consumer feedback it is both extremely useful and a source of empowerment. And they will find the reviews of others helpful and empowering for their program and service decisions.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2019

The Benefits of Financial Transparency . Learn more about the benefits of financial transparency in Blackbaud’s new white paper: Compliance Risk Management for the Empowered Nonprofit . Many nonprofit leaders understand the benefits of transparency but don’t know how to share relevant information about their numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Some tips to build capacity and benefiting from a fundraising contest: Get organized both online and offline. NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. Image by Codilicious from Flickr. Designate a cheer leader.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 22, 2007

Just got some information on this cool program: The Hadley School for the Blind has launched an innovative program of English language learning and empowerment which spans the Pacific Ocean. The benefits of the English chat are many. Hadley School , the main distance education school for blind people in the U.S.

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China Skype Student Empowerment 100

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Applications like Causes also enable individuals to give voices to your work that you don’t have to control or manage – campaigns that benefit you because your supporters believe and appreciate the work you are doing. ( Check out a great post from Ivan Boothe of Rootwork on this topic.).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Applications like Causes also enable individuals to give voices to your work that you don’t have to control or manage - campaigns that benefit you because your supporters believe and appreciate the work you are doing. ( Check out a great post from Ivan Boothe of Rootwork on this topic.). as a form of self expression and identification.

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Myspace Technology Causes Application 158

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

We also know that braille materials must be far more available to braille readers of all ages in order to realize their full benefits. and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries. This is important here in the U.S.,

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

From making masks, to getting older neighbors to appointments safely, to food drives, a lot of community service and giving is happening outside of activities organized by non-profits (even though many benefit non-profits).

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