Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The origins of some foundations’ wealth, which in some cases includes slavery and other forms of exploitation. The tendency of philanthropic professionals, big donors, and other relatively privileged people to assume that they know what is best for the people who are directly affected by the problems that need to be addressed.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Our Leadership Council incorporates a diverse array of expertise and cause affiliations with representation from nonprofit organizations, corporations, foundations, academic institutions, and many more. The Greater Boston Food Bank. Previously served as CEO of The Seany Foundation, a pediatric cancer foundation.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Anyone reading this blog that lives in the New England area may know that the symphony I was raised around is the Boston Symphony Orchestra. My youth was flooded by a series of Wednesday night rehearsals, regular BSO concerts, and multiple summer weekends spent at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony in Lenox, Massachusetts.

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

As a follow-up to the Women in Philanthropy Institute’s 2023 Symposium, hosted by the Indiana University Lilly Foundation School of Philanthropy, we gathered four dynamic grantmakers to discuss how they are doing the work to amplify female voices, especially women, girls, and femmes of color, in philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

(Note: My collection of vlog and blog posts on the NTC Boston 2005 can be found here ). m a trustee of a small family foundation, not by family, thank god.??? He presented the new/old paradigm for philanthropy for individual donors. In the last five years, 1,000 private foundations have been created in MA. Most aren???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

In May of 2008 when I joined The Lumpkin Family Foundation I was given the challenge to figure out how to develop a network to support the nonprofit capacity building work of The Foundation in downstate Illinois. We need to do more experiments to actively work to get The Foundation out of the center of the hub.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

At bbcon 2018, Blackbaud announced the cloud solution for each of our main audiences, including the Cloud Solution for Companies and the Cloud Solution for Foundations. Keep in mind the following points from speakers Brooke Hansel of Blackbaud, Merrie Beth Nauman of Ocean Conservancy, and Lisa Tacker of Two Ten Footwear Foundation: .

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

the people they serve, boards, donors, etc.), In communicating to our donors, we wanted to focus on making it easy to understand tangible needs. We talked to Stephen Peeler, Executive Director of the IDSA Foundation , about their shifts in messaging to more expressly support the most important work in our country today. “We

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2019

During his presentation, Joe will give you a simple, step-by-step program for maximizing year-end giving at your non-profit… plus, you’ll get a deeper understanding of your donors’ motivations for giving at the end of the year. If you miss it, potential donors may make decisions based on stale information about your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Nonprofit insiders are watching and debating how ALS will use the money and the donor retention strategy. And, of course the valid concern of wasting water in a drought. Jasmine Hall Ratliff from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation challenged fellow staff members on the RWJF baseball team.

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2011

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard that multichannel fundraising, i.e. enabling your donors to give via postal mail, your website, telemarketing, social media, etc. and includes transactions for over 15 million donors and $1 billion in revenue. is the answer to all of your fundraising woes.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

On January 8, 2011 the meme ranked number 11 on Google Trends search queries and the Susan G Komen Foundation said that their Facebook page grew by over 100K “likes” in 24 hours. He started Team Gleason, the ALS foundation after he was diagnosed. Can You Build a Base of Supporters with Memes?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and around the world, you and your team will be able to learn how to more effectively lead your nonprofit and interact with donors. Donor relations. INBOUND 2016 , sponsored by Hubspot, will be hosted in Boston, Massachusetts and will run from November 8th to the 11th. Donor communication. Social media. INBOUND 2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Fundraising with social media (particularly Facebook) means under- standing that donors don’t separate liking, sharing, or pledging, from donating,” explained John. Jeff Bauman , who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013, has the second most successful fundraiser on the site with over $800,000 raised. More than 1.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The question now is, short of paying for promoted posts, what can nonprofits do to adjust to these changes and make sure their content earns the sort of reach and virality needed to engage new volunteers, donors and advocates? Here are a few tips to keep in mind to help your content remain top-of-stream. Tactic 1: Audit your content.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Donor relations. The 33rd Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute features leading nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance and government to discuss the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Donor Relations / #casedevr / @CASEAdvance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2008

The week before I went from Boston to Miami to Romania and flew back to Boston via Miami to present at the TAG Conference. Roberto Cremonini of the Barr Foundation had invited me to present on a panel about social networking. TAG Conference Presentation View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. and James L.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Lisa Tacker and her team at Two Ten Footwear Foundation , a charitable foundation based near Boston, were scrambling. Through hurricanes, fires, floods, the pandemic, and more, Two Ten awards millions of dollars in emergency relief each year, and they rely 100% on donor dollars to do it.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Enhanced technology has made giving simple and convenient, so why aren’t you booming with success and increasing your donors and donations year over year? This makes an employee giving program, or employee relief fund, a big brick in the foundation of any company. Sounds like you? Don’t take it personally and definitely don’t worry.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

» Tuesday Apr 10 2007 How to Leverage Celebrities for Fundraising Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at 10:26AM | by Heidi Bucheister Understanding what attracts donors is vital to effectively appealing to an existing donor base or to expand the base. Fox ( Foundation for Parkinson’s Research ). Celebrities? Places of worship?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2020

You’re also getting used to Zoom and other video conferencing technologies , but you know that using it for a morning check-in with your team is very different than using it for a donor call. But I hadn’t used it for very many donor calls… until I was told not to travel anymore. The first week I had six donor visits and got $2.7

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Harvey McKinnon and Andy Robinson will discuss how to build stronger donor relationships and how you can use this strategy to improve every kind of fundraising. But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang besides the webinars, we are a provider of donor management software. Is it okay, if I go ahead and kick things off officially?

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

Good360 Good360 will be raffling off three $50 gift cards from our corporate donors The Home Depot, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Williams-Sonoma. The winner can attend a GA101 or GA301 in DC (March 29-31), Columbus (April 11-13), Boston (May 18-20) or NYC (June 7-9). Plone Foundation Plone stickers; One page slicks.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 5, 2021

Your digital marketing goal is to convert website visitors , social media followers, and other audience members into donors and long-term supporters of your mission. Also, 33% of donors say email is the channel that most inspires them to give.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The WHAT IF Conference is for anyone who supports nonprofit organizations, especially staff and board members, volunteers, donors, foundations and corporate funders. HubSpot / Boston, MA / Less than $1,000. Global Fund for Community Foundations / Johannesburg, (Int.) Impact Foundary / McClellan Park, CA / $200.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 14, 2019

Participants: Boston College, Dartmouth College, Indiana University, Marquette University, Oklahoma State University, and University of Colorado – Boulder. Data is the Foundation: While it seems simple, one of the first outcomes learned was the impact of even having access to the data.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

One of our clients is the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC; [link] ). Because of their broad vision and future-looking leadership, AFC was recently awarded a substantial grant from a private foundation that will help them improve their client information systems, including enhancements to further leverage their implementation of ClientTrack.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 23, 2021

We are here to talk about how to tap into Gen Y and Gen Z donors. But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond our webinars, we are also a provider of donor management software. We’ve got Dominique Calixte joining us from beautiful Boston, Massachusetts. Her day job, she’s over at the YW Boston.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

Tools that deliver immediate information include IdeaEncore , Nonprofit Management Resources , the Boston Indicators Project , and Answr. An example might be that you search for best practices in supervision for nonprofit managers, and find a video on this topic from Third Sector New England. Dynamic information.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 2, 2020

Those resources include: In fall 2019, Changing Our World published a new report, “Understanding the Next Generation of Donors and How They Will Change the World.” Understanding that each person makes an equal sacrifice, not an equal financial gift, will lay the foundation for future giving.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

Risk Taking in Pursuit of New Donors: It’s OK for a big budget movie or new product to flop. The book also discusses the need to create corporate structures for for-profit foundations that can “drive a whole new class of entrepreneurial and creative thinking into civil philanthropy.”

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

But, if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars, we are also a provider, primarily a provider, of donor-management software. You could say, “We want to reach,” you know, “major donors and get them to make a gift of $5,000 or more.” We’re getting close to 1,000 sessions actually.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

The CyberYenta, Deborah Finn , recently had a successful pledge as follows: "I will smile and say "hello" to strangers I pass on the streets in my neighborhood but only if 50 residents of Boston, Massachusetts, USA will too." Donors Choose (which came my way via Blogher Lisa Stone's sister!)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

We travel because we need to raise money, and we won’t get it unless we get in front of the donors. New York Every year, social entrepreneurs and donors (along with a whole lot of other folks) converge on New York City. Met with the UN Foundation about a major grant they are giving us to bring Bookshare to India.

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