Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2017

Are you interested in partnering with national funders supporting pioneering work in bringing the rich idea of customer satisfaction to the social sector? L4G is dedicated to building the practice of listening to the people we seek to help. If you answered an enthusiastic “Yes!” to these questions, keep reading!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The first step is to decide which days to build a campaign upon and add them to your 2019 editorial calendar. 17: National Nonprofit Day — #NationalNonprofitDay (Internationally recognized). 17: International Homeless Animal Day — #IHAD19. 10: World Lion Day — #WorldLionDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The National Retail Federation predicts that holiday sales this year will increase 4.1 BFAS runs the largest no-kill animal sanctuary in the United States and works nationwide to create a time of No More Homeless Pets. National Geographic Store. National Public Radio(NPR) Shop. National Wildlife Federation Online Store.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

On June 1, programmers, activists, and civic leaders participated in the first ever National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH) across 83 U.S. Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2017

The first step is to decide which days to build a campaign upon and add them to your 2018 editorial calendar. 17: National Nonprofit Day — #NationalNonprofitDay (Internationally recognized). 18: International Homeless Animal Day — #IHAD18. 8: International Cat Day — #CatDay.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

At one point in time, enacting their value to address homelessness in your area may translate to grants to homeless shelters. operating; specific projects; capital; endowment; capacity-building; challenge grant; sponsorship, etc.). They may wish to build good will with their employees, clients, or the general public.

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Twenty Hats

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I became the volunteer manager at a non-profit, FACETS , that works with people struggling with homelessness and poverty. While getting to know my new coworkers, I asked them to share the challenges they were struggling with, to let me build programs to help with those pinch points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Note from Beth: I’ve wrote about the importance of building resilience in networks given the complex and connected environment we live in today. So, when Pat Brandes from the Barr Foundation sent me this thought piece on building resilience of networks, it resonated on many different levels.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Customers Build Social Innovation Capacity With Partners. We currently partner with multiple departments within the United Nations, such as the World Health Organization and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to help solve the toughest societal challenges and to amplify the impact of our customers.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Building social innovation capacity with partners Our customers continue to make use of our robust partner ecosystem. Cohorts have addressed housing and homelessness, equity in education, and climate action. The percentage of surveyed customers that indicated they were better able to achieve their missions was high regardless of SDG.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2022

While evaluation is a helpful step, building a culture of innovation is equally impactful. Although the HUD Exchange’s Continuum of Care focuses specifically on homelessness, other coalitions use a similar framework to address specific issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

I caught up with Danny Alpert at the NTC Conference in Minneapolis, MN where he briefed me on how he is using a “Transmedia” strategy to raise awareness and funding to support homeless services. He graciously agreed to pen this guest post while I was in transit to “down under.” ” Enjoy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Mark is a free agent championing the cause of homelessness. Mark founded InvisiblePeople.tv , a nationally-recognized nonprofit that fights homelessness using the power of social media. Mark is a free agent championing the cause of homelessness. The content is fantastic — particularly the tutorials.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A strong mission statement inspires donors to give, outlines what your nonprofit does, and builds trust in the community that your nonprofit can fulfill its promises. Step 5: Assemble Your Building Blocks See what goes well together from your written lists until you find which key phrases work best together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2013

He had spent his AmeriCorps term as a liaison between a mayor’s office and the homeless community, building relationships and creating resources. Countless organizations could benefit from Kyle’s skills, yet there is no system connecting national service alumni with nonprofits and public sector agencies most in need of young talent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Nonprofits do critical work in their communities and around the world and, in so doing, build the awareness of their brands to scale their impact. Simon Mainwaring is the Founder and CEO of We First, a creative consultancy that builds purpose-driven brands.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. Each of these groups provided insights into the challenge, determined a focus area where technology can help, and developed a solution.

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Qgiv

JUNE 13, 2023

In addition, creating a board that’s representative of your community is crucial because it builds trust between your constituents and your organization. Second, appoint people of color to advisory boards to build their skills and experience. Cherry, The Board Pro, works with nonprofits to build better boards. Transgender?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

Six months later, I’m happy to report that my numbers are in the normal range. I’m also noticing that many of my colleagues are trying to become healthy, including my friend and homeless advocate, Mark Horvath, who is also raising money for a good cause while getting healthy. It’s not a luxury. Even in the nonprofit sector.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. In the next phase, we will continue to work with the community to build out these ideas. These ideas are just the beginning.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Drawing national attention to an important issue (and a good bit of recognition for your organization the process). Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. Facilitating face-time and team building for your regional staff. Facilitating face-time and team building for your regional staff. Building local chapters.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But first, you need to build a solid foundation so your nonprofit will thrive, not struggle. Build relationships with the leaders already in the space. Think about your audience as someone who doesn’t know anything about food insecurity, homelessness, first generation college students, or animal abuse. Build a solid foundation.

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AUGUST 18, 2022

Their goal is to bring hope and help to various nations during times of crisis. Put simply, the more effort you put into building your email list, the more your numbers will grow, and the more successful your fundraising will be. 150 provides ten days of meals for the homeless), you’re likely to drive more donations.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Lack of support and mentorship A bit like building a social network, individuals from underserved communities may lack access to supportive mentors who can help guide them and provide advice on how to succeed in their chosen fields. They all present experiences which we — by no fault of our own — may find hard to comprehend.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Lisa Narodick Colton , See3 , is working with a group of homeless organizations to increase awareness about issues and feel grateful for what they have. The National Brain Tumor Society has a guest blog post from a cancer survivor with an unselfie, encouraging people to take part in the campaign.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Spend time building your donor base by doing things like online fundraisers, fundraising appeals, starting a monthly giving program, and asking folks within your network for donations. Perhaps it’s a program grant to cover costs of running your homelessness program. Now, if you’re not quite ready to go after grants, that’s ok!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In their upcoming webinar, Powered by Pro Bono 101 , the Taproot Foundation will show you how to harness the power of pro bono services to help your organization do everything from build a website to update your brand strategy and develop strong strategic plans. Get the full description and sign up for the webinar here. Register now!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In their upcoming webinar, Powered by Pro Bono 101 , the Taproot Foundation will show you how to harness the power of pro bono services to help your organization do everything from build a website to update your brand strategy and develop strong strategic plans. Get the full description and sign up for the webinar here. Register now!

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 6, 2018

Review the mission statement - cure cancer, end homelessness, provide affordable housing for working families - whatever it is, ask yourself if the programs from last year helped the organization reach its goals. Building the brand. What will you do differently this year? From WHY comes strategic planning and goal setting.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

BUILD actively works to increase high school graduation rates for at-risk youth with a four-year entrepreneurial program. The program also helps everyone build credit scores. ” Its newest innovation is to provide cloud-based document storage for the homeless. 250,000 Grant Winners. Semi-Finalists ($100,000 grant winners).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Take for example Big Warm Up , a campaign by Lands End to encourage people to donate winter coats to homeless people. Building bridges with other nonprofits around the world. Some will launch sooner, while others have already swung into action. This cause-related campaign has a big fancy web site and nonprofit partners.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

We’re here to talk about how to build a better grant strategy in this post-COVID, to the extent that we are post-COVID world. So I hope that you can kind of take some nuggets of information to kind of help you think through ways that you could be more responsive, build a better process related to grants. Thanks for being here.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

If you work for a nonprofit, there’s a good chance that you’re working on a tough problem like the achievement gap, homelessness, or global hunger. That’s why we teach the brain break to kids in school — you not only get that short-term relaxing “aaah,” you’re also building the long-term strength of your brain’s CEO. Get another!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

For people who can't get enough of their favorite TV show, online extras and spoilers are the perfect way to drive traffic to a second screen, and build up buzz about future episodes. For instance, you could feature a video of someone who once was homeless but now is a proud homeowner. Set Up an Exclusive Spoiler Room.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Building an Effective Data Culture at Your Nonprofit. Phoenix, Arizona: Website Building 101: Quick and Easy Web Presence for Nonprofits. Wednesday, October 11, 2017. Monday, October 16, 2017.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

More and more money is donated on this national day of giving each year. Build your campaign contact lists. When you build a Giving Tuesday campaign around matching gifts , you’re doing two things: getting donors excited about increasing their individual impact and raising more money than your organization could on its own.

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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. and one of the most highly anticipated cultural events in the nation.

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