Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2018

For example, artificial intelligence can do a facial recognition analysis of hundreds and thousands of photos in minutes. Let’s take a look at a few examples: Major Gifts Officer: A new platform called First Draft developed by Gravyty uses AI to identify and draft emails to prospects in an organization’s database.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

I just finished reading Kentaro Toyama’s new book, Geek Heresy, tackling the cult of technology as a cure-all for society’s ills. There’s often more value to me in reading iconoclastic books than feel-good affirmations of popular icons! At the same time, there are some flaws in his arguments that are worth pointing out.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 18, 2022

In contrast, volunteering is a more general service that doesn’t require prior experience or knowledge. Here are some examples of pro-bono work you can request from your community: Graphic design. Experiences can be a unique and memorable way to show donors your appreciation and commitment to providing value to your organization.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

federal law supports braille instruction. With Bookshare , Benetech’s online library for people with print disabilities, our ebook-based approach to the accessibility challenge has already delivered on the promise of ending the famine of accessible books in the United States. Accordingly, U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

One of them was Vincent Law who is doing interesting work with teaching young children about giving and philanthropy. Empower Young Children through Philanthropy – guest blog post by Vincent Law, CEO and Founder at PhilanthroKids Academy. For example we use the Chinese folk story, The Empty Pot to teach kids about honesty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Unlike fellow nonprofit book nerd, Rosetta Thurman , I am way behind on my nonprofit book summer reading list. My blog is the July 15th stop on Clay Shirky’s virtual book tour for his recently published book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in A Connected Age.

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MAY 29, 2024

Coined by law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, the term refers to the fact that combinations—or intersections—of social identities such as race, class, and gender result in different experiences and treatment. The librarian receives a single hard copy of a book on bisexual Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. For example, in the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

For example, your organization could: Take donations at conferences, events, and street fairs. Accept payments at one-time events, like auctions and library book sales. Laws for Organizations that Accept Online Payments. Allow canvassers to collect member dues via their smartphones. About the PayAnywhere Donation Program.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2012

Library book sales. Here are some examples of social-benefit Shopify storefronts: Team in Training (the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society); Lonesome George & Co. Plus, no web design experience is necessary to use Shopify. Laws for Organizations that Accept Online Payments. Nonprofit art galleries.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Lesson 2: Understand the laws. Once you have identified what resources you are saving and how you think they should be utilized, do your due diligence to make sure you’re following all applicable federal, state, and local laws as well as relevant court decisions. 3 3 Lesson 3: Create partnerships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Kivi's Nonprofit Marketing Blog wrote a review of the book and offered a summary of the four principles in the book that she thought nonprofits could apply. Frank Barry chimed in with a follow up post illustrating trust agent characteristics with nonprofit examples. The only concern was potentially violating HIPPA laws.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2009

There are no official rules, although there is some great advice in the O'Reilly Twitter Book on this topic for corporate examples. The example above is from Lisa Goddard who is the marketing director at the Capital Area Food Bank. Take a look at Ellen Miller from the Sunlight Foundation as an example.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Examples include: Cell Phones for Soldiers , a nonprofit that collects mobile phone donations and sells to recycling and used phone reseller companies like Mobile Karma. Mosieur told me this story as an example: "Recently I received a letter inside a package of donated phones. Phones 4 Charity. scrap ($0-$5 per pound ).

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2014

Here are the 7 ‘can’t miss’ breakout sessions coming up at this year’s #14NTC : 50 Shades of Social Media: Navigating Policies, Laws, and Ethics [#14NTC Shades]. Why I’m excited: This diverse panel includes experience in the nonprofit industry, law, social media, fundraising and communications. In addition to these sessions.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2012

In your experience, to what extent does instituting a sustaining donor program increase donations? There is a great book about this called Hidden Gold by Harvey McKinnon that talks in depth about the benefits of a sustaining donor program and how to get one started. Laws for Organizations that Accept Online Payments.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For example, instead of using sheets of paper to track bids at a silent auction, users could enter their bids on a tablet or via an app on their phone. Of course, this one can put you at odds with the law if you’re not careful, so make sure to get legal advice on any laws or local ordinances you need to follow.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Best-selling author Brian Tracy's book, Full Engagement , provides practical advice for how to inspire your employees to perform at their absolute best. In addition, each chapter in the book ends with a list of Action Exercises to help you implement Tracy's guidance.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So this was a way that we formalized a commitment and a grounding for this group of people that we then wanted to be in community, so that we could always come back to that statement to say, “Hey, you know, I know that we all have different professions and experiences, priorities, and abilities to give, abilities to connect.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

One of the examples I can think of here. And she was heartbroken because he couldn’t have the same college experience that she had. And so it was her goal to start a nonprofit to give him and his friends the same kind of college experience. Just sharing an example. This is an organization in Birmingham.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Best-selling author Brian Tracy''s book, Full Engagement , provides practical advice for how to inspire your employees to perform at their absolute best. In addition, each chapter in the book ends with a list of Action Exercises to help you implement Tracy''s guidance.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Saturday, October 2, 2010 Must-Read Book For Nonprofit Leaders If you lead a nonprofit organization, the one hour it will take you to read Peter F. Druckers book called " The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization " will be well worth it. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books? However, if you dont have time to read books about how to be an effective and good leader, you can select a few words from the list below and then practice what those words mean, as you lead your team every day. The answer is yes. Great post Eric.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

"Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 24, 2011

Best-selling author Brian Tracy's newest book, Full Engagement , provides practical advice for how to inspire your employees to perform at their absolute best. In addition, each chapter in the book ends with a list of Action Exercises to help you implement Tracy's guidance.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Actually, I think that the two of you combined now hold the record for the most books written by a Bloomerang webinar guest. If I was in the office, I would hold up Harvey’s great new book on monthly giving, which is behind my desk and really awesome. So monthly giving if you’re interested in that, please, get that book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2011

Monday, January 17, 2011 New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reach That Goal Social psychologist, Heidi Grant Halvorson, wrote Succeed to help you understand how goals work, what tends to go wrong, and what you can do to reach your goals or to help others reach theirs. • How to create an environment that will help you win. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 23, 2010

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Whats The First Leadership Book You Would Give To A New Manager? Earlier this year, various discussion groups on the social media site LinkedIn helped me build a list of favorite leadership books. For me, that book would be Timothy R. For me, that book would be Timothy R.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2007

I’m working on a game design project now that involves an interesting experiment: a blend of real-time and on-demand gaming. And I mean experiment, because I don’t have a bias, or even truly, a hypothesis, as to which component will be better, more popular, more compelling. But all of these examples represent time inside the game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! An example? Another example. Here's an example from the Red Cross. So, now is the fun part. This can inform.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

Wrote a book on brandraising, which is really awesome, and has got kind of a newish book right here, “Nonprofit Communications Engine,” which is you’re going to get a little bit of the book information today too. So buy those books. And, Steven, please chat out the link to your book for everybody too.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

For example, the values section was posed in terms of spectrums: from simplicity to complexity, security to risk, constancy to nimbleness, autonomy to engagement. B Corp is newer--right now it's a national trustmark (a certification, like organic), though Maryland just passed a law making "benefit corporation" a legal designation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

Yeshi , is a Facebook Messenger bot created by charity:water to simulate the experience of many young girls in Ethiopia who walk six hours a day to get clean water. For example, in Liberia, the bot asked 13,000 young people if teachers at their schools were exchanging grades for sex. We know from our experience (lots of experience!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2013

For example, one can test different wording for Facebook ads and use Google Analytics to see which one did the best in terms of converting people to an action. Experiment setup and hypothesis. What sorts of experiments have you run with imagery? By Shabbir Imber Safdar, Kate Harle, Dale Anania, from The Marine Mammal Center.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

Best-selling author Brian Tracy's book, Full Engagement , provides practical advice for how to inspire your employees to perform at their absolute best. In addition, each chapter in the book ends with a list of Action Exercises to help you implement Tracy's guidance.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

Best-selling author Brian Tracy''s book, Full Engagement , provides practical advice for how to inspire your employees to perform at their absolute best. In addition, each chapter in the book ends with a list of Action Exercises to help you implement Tracy''s guidance.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Sunday, December 5, 2010 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips Here are three great tips from the book, The Everything Coaching and Mentoring Book : Coaches do not motivate their employees; they inspire them to motivate themselves. Mentoring is all about sharing experiences. They pose alternatives.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 7, 2010

Saturday, August 7, 2010 Great Business Quote Heres a great quote from author and speaker Harvey Mackay : "When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience ends up with the money, and the person with the money ends up with the experience." Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books?

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