sgEngage

DECEMBER 29, 2023

You want your donors to trust your work, your impact, your stewardship of resources, and your connection to the community, and stand out in a sea of information. Request a Demo The post 4 Financial Metrics to Increase Transparency for Your Nonprofit first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog. But not all nonprofits are created equal.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 2, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll walk you through how to design a volunteer engagement program that fosters a positive experience for both your nonprofit and your volunteers. Utilize multiple channels to reach out to potential volunteers, including social media, local community events, and partnerships with other organizations.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

At Salesforce, our business is guided by stakeholder capitalism , a system in which corporate purpose is based on a fundamental commitment to all stakeholders — customers, employees, partners, communities, the planet, and society — rather than just shareholders. From nonprofits like 350.org With a digital-first approach, 350.org’s

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This job was humbling and exhausting, and I unknowingly lost part of my original zeal for creativity and community building over the four years with the company. That is a loaded question so I’ll opt out for something with a little more structure—what did the RiseUP Fellowship teach me? The Value of Environment. .

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Their mission is to strengthen the philanthropic community by helping nonprofit organizations thrive in today’s dynamic, competitive environment. TAG: We work with the entire nonprofit community! Our partnership with The Chicago Community Trust is a great story. Meet one of Qgiv’s newest partners, The Alford Group.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The data collected is usually owned by the grantmaker, not questioned, and not shared back with the grantee or any larger community. For issues with this, check out Vu Le’s 2015 post “ Weaponized data: How the obsession with data has been hurting marginalized communities.” Consider: Who defines objectives and “success”?

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2022

Organizations, such as First Nations Development Institute, have their core values and belief about the potential of First Nations communities woven into their narrative that access to appropriate resources creates the environment for ingenuity to help ensure the well-being of First Nations communities.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

Session: Social Media's Potential for Faith Based Communities. Social media are tools that should be in everyone’s toolbox (not relegated to the “IT” person only), and the environment in which we are all doing our work is evolving quickly. Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)? link] (blog).

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Media Cause

AUGUST 8, 2022

To begin, we’re breaking down the very basic foundation and structure of the current “metascape” from a nonprofit perspective and sharing questions your organization should ask before staking your own claim in the metaverse. . And stay tuned for the next blog in our series on uncovering the metaverse for nonprofits.

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EveryAction

MAY 23, 2016

This guest post originally appeared on Idealist Careers blog. On top of that, those accustomed to a traditional corporate hierarchy structure and raise-and-review process aren’t always likely to find the same at a nonprofit. On the other hand, nonprofits naturally exist for the purpose of improving the world and our communities.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Your nonprofit mission statement is how you communicate your organization’s impact to supporters, clients, and the community at large. Impact: What impact do you hope to make in the world or your community? How does what you do benefit the community? Why does your nonprofit exist? Who Do You Serve? What Is Your Impact?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

So, I’m thrilled that community manager, Meghan Ventura, who is responsible for cultivating the community presence of Games for Change agreed to write this guest post about nonprofits who are using games for social change. And, don’t miss this special offer: Get 10% off tickets with the code beth_g4c14. In Education.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

However, it’s important to note that when it comes to your blog or social media pages, strict adherence to this practice may be optional. This approach not only maintains a clean and user-friendly design for your blog and social media, but it also helps increase traffic to your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute published a new report called “ Connected Citizens &# that looks at the impact of networks on communities, and asks, what do these emerging networks mean for community change? Designing for serendipity: Creating environments, in person and online, where helpful connections can form.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Sometimes easier said than done!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space? Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. The event is encouraging bloggers around the web to write a post about the environment. I think it means nothing.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. I'm guilty of calling our community on the social web selfish because what it means is that anything we put out, it needs to be useful for them. David : I think that goes to different ways you can structure how you bring people together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

When Bill Traynor assumed leadership of Lawrence CommunityWorks (LCW), a community development corporation, he recognized these challenges and met them with a series of amazing questions. How do you create trusted spaces and trusted information in an environment that is working very hard to amplify fear and distrust?

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

When you host an event in a virtual environment, you’re getting access to data and content you can repurpose to steward relationships, grow your social presence, and create new touchpoints to engage, educate, and retain donors. Create a blog post with “can’t-miss moments”. Direct Mail (19.2%). Newsletters (15.7%). Events (13.9%).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

I had the privilege of attending an event for A Billion + Change , a national campaign to mobilize billions of dollars in skills-based and pro bono volunteer services to help build the capacity of nonprofit organizations to effectively meet community needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

How did a friend and tend to someone in my neighborhood, family, or community? Most people can’t draw, so this activity levels the playing field and it positively reinforces group dynamics and builds a more open environment. Who am I checking in on or connecting with in my network today? What expectations of normal am I letting go of?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Some of the greatest breakthroughs arrive when people who are outside the traditional structure take a look at a problem. Don’t Bring Your Phone in the Shower – guest post by Carrie Avery.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

This is important because it allows insights into the daily work lives of like individuals, their processes, and lessons learned on the job that can positively impact the learning community as a whole. Social learning done properly is unique as it provides a number of benefits not available in traditional learning environments.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

During that time, we’ve grown from offering one product to offering many products and services, in four program areas: education, human rights, the environment, and, now, tech volunteerism. I want to focus here on our New Project Framework, but if you’d like to you can read more about the Benetech Truths in this blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

And the many, many hyper local and niche causes that touch the lives of their online communities not by the millions, but by the hundreds or thousands everyday. We are asked to do it in controlled environments. Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. Yes, that difficult word, BUT.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2006

Blog Administrator??? at Community Season, the developer a web-based automation tool for community organizations called Rumpus ( [link] ). Blog Administrator??? s corporate blog, All The Rumpus , Everyone at our company feels that blogs are an excellent way to make our company??? Are you blogging full-time?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2011

They want to ensure that the mission of their company stays intact over time and factors like environmental stewardship, community involvement, and employee well-being are legally recognized in the DNA of their founding documents. A structure has emerged to serve this purpose, called the Benefit Corporation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Note from Beth: I first encountered Nina Simon through her awesome blog back four or five years ago. Rick wanted a better way to describe what kinds of projects led to different community outcomes. What do these categories look like outside of the science environment? Source: Share Your Ideas.

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

By giving your community an active role in your grantmaking process, you get a better understanding of their needs, build stronger relationships, and have a more direct impact. Often these community members go through a vetting or recommendation process and receive training in order to review applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

That said, we are especially committed to achieving focused impact in the areas of Education, the Environment, the Economy and Emergency Preparedness & Response. While these results seem relatively straightforward on the surface, structuring an online campaign around them proved more challenging than anticipated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Over the past twenty years, the Brainerd Foundation has invested nearly $50 million in organizations working to protect the environment in the Northwest. Nicole Lampe, Resource Media, blogged two summaries based on the ideas and discussion: The Future of Conservation: A Return to Our Roots. Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to Ardi, the Beta environment functions like an orchestra – where the conductor plays a coordinating role, but each member’s input is distinct and critical, and a variety of musicians can have solos. Beta companies are communities, not armies,” she writes. The Beta model is taking its place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2007

Readers of this blog might recall that John and I got a chance to do some training session in the UK last January and I did a video blog post interview with him. His post would be the perfect blog post. I'm hoping that I can convince him to guest blog or collaborate on a post on a good issue maybe like once month or so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Outlined in the brief article below is a new way of using the Web and web services to gather peoples’ stories – anecdotes, video clips, podcasts, blog posts and all sorts of other snippets – and help not-for-profit organizations move into action planning based on the “raw material” of what people are saying and talking about. True change.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

When I started this blog in 2006, I made a multi-media introduction to the concept of "museum 2.0" In a lot of ways, our successful turnaround at the MAH has been driven by both embracing incremental change and opening up clear opportunities for community organizations and individuals to "plug" their cultural brilliance into our space.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Caution: No turtles were harmed in the making of this blog. Fast forward to the last ten years, and our whole environment has changed, as well as our outlook. Now of course it’s true, there will always be people who like getting up, putting on a uniform and traveling to a physical space where they can be part of a work community.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. We inspired a community and got real results. Give away the fun (and easy) part.

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