Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For example, if your town is known for gorgeous cherry blossom trees, offering paintings with these trees by a local artist can inspire bidding. For example, a local bike shop could donate a bike, helmet, and a voucher for a free tuneup. Look for B&Bs in unique locations, such as beachfront or mountaintop locales.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Women Give 2010 is the first report to compare philanthropic giving between men and women across all income levels based on a nationally representative sample. The story in the San Francisco Chronicle says the new gift cards are available in Safeway and Vons supermarkets in California in denominations of $25 and $30."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

is a nonprofit project pioneering “community funded reporting.” is trying to pioneer this concept of community-funded reporting which is the act of distributing the cost of hiring a reporter across a lot of different people. We also did an interview with the reporter to get a feel for what went into the reporting.

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Blue Fox

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

For example, California’s ceiling for a non-exempt employee is $49,920. Even more inspiring to us: according to the 2019 Nonprofit Employment Report From Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, “Nonprofit jobs grew almost four times faster than for-profit jobs over the last decade.” DID YOU KNOW?

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MARCH 30, 2022

It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. I was assigned to the art school to track art classes and enrollments, and to work on reporting and making sure records were polished and current. When I look back, this was one of the most sophisticated fundraising programs in Texas!

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For this fundraising event, you’ll need to team up with a local paint and sip store like Pinot’s Palette or Painting with a Twist that’s willing to paint it forward with a percentage of the night’s proceeds going to your cause. Oak Hill School of California Trivia Night Fundraiser. You can go one of two ways here. No-Shave November.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

By highlighting a combined focus on improving the aesthetic beauty of their local S-Line while also fighting against food insecurity, this campaign created a sophisticated connection between donors and the cause itself. What you can learn : Create a cohesive story about what GivingTuesday campaign donations will fund.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. dang, this is a great topic, this is so timely as people are, you know, perhaps getting annual reports together. If you all don’t know Marie, she is the lead consultant over at Funding for Good.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Highlights of this Letter: SocialCoding4Good CityOptions Read2Go and Route 66 Literacy Selected Program Updates Human rights: Legal victory in Guatemala, PBS NewsHour stories Literacy: Major milestones for Bookshare at home and abroad SocialCoding4Good Just funded by the John S. and James L. Read2Go Bookshare goes mobile!

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2020

According to a 2019 Statistica report on social media use, users spend an average of 136 minutes per day on social channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat. For example, a nonprofit raising funds for childhood cancer research may see that the majority of its donors are mothers under 40 years old.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. Piper Trust funded an expansion of the Encore Fellowships program that originated in California. All the volunteers were working as tutors in local elementary schools. ASU Lodestar Center. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground. I got a chance to talk to the C2C chief operating officer, Brian Vahaly, this week, and he reports that they are making headway. How the Project Got Going. in Philadelphia.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

With residential and outpatient centers throughout California, Walden serves a huge swath of socio-economically disenfranchised people. The Challenge: In 2012, HealthRIGHT 360 served over 29,000 people with a budget of $64 million and 13 locations across California. ” Precise & Easy Usage Reporting.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2013

I found out about how big a deal Glasspockets is when I attended a local Foundation Technology Affinity Group (TAG) meeting of Northern California foundation techies who kept talking about Glasspockets projects like the hGrant Online Reporting Project , and the Transparency Talk blog. Disability Rights Fund. ?

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The Fundraising Authority

MAY 8, 2021

The grants team will go through your report and contact you with the results. For example, if 90% of donations come from people in California and 80% come from Sacramento, it wouldn't be worth putting Phoenix as part of your location targeting. First, you’ll need a Google Ad Grants account, which is free!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Thanks to Darren DeRose, the IT Administrator for Children's Network of Solano County in Fairfield, California, having a shared database is no longer such a problem. Darren reports that this was made possible through the Microsoft software and licenses donated through TechSoup.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. The name Ushahidi means "testimony" in Swahili.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. The goal was to provide a platform for ordinary Kenyans to report incidents of violence happening around them. spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Heather agreed to write up this report to share some of the content. As a consequence, there’s a risk that our field may become disillusioned with “collaboration,” and the pendulum will swing back to funding narrow, siloed programs that may produce adequate outcomes, but which are far from producing real impact at scale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Last Friday, Mobile Active reported on the Sunday???s s Super Bowl launch of a United Way fund-raising campaign using mobile phone text messaging. The Mobile Active post provides some additional context about how the campaign was funded and mentions other Text-to-Give campaigns in America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. He wanted to raise some money to help the local orchestra and test some ideas. Don’t think of social media as a quick fix to raise funds.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The organization and challenge: After years of traditional fund-raising events, Catholic Charities CYO (CC) in San Francisco decided its approach was getting stale and that it needed to broaden its audience to include opportunities for young people. Fundraising Events. The cocktail party had an auction and a raffle.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 30, 2013

I’ve been in the business of raising deferred revenue since 1994, when I accepted the position of Director of Planned Gifts at the American Heart Association’s California Affiliate office in Orange County and I see both signs of change and signs that other things will stand.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Of course, the MacArthur people make a big deal out of the lack of obligation or reporting ("you'll never have to talk to us again," said Daniel Socolow, the head of the program). My two closest peers in California have both gotten MacArthurs (Victoria Hale this year and David Green two years ago). But, I don't feel that way!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2013

It’s an app that helps fund a hotel room for people leaving violent situations. Be sure to check out the annual report (page 24-33, but be sure to see page 29). Today, Marnie posted an update on her Facebook profile asking for support. ” Another example is the work that Rachel Weidinger is doing at UpWell.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2018

Nearly 20,000 residents have been asked to evacuate their homes in Northern California as a result of the multiple wildfires that have been burning for weeks, and CNBC has reported that more than 16,000 homes have been threatened by potential damage from the wildfire at this point, leading to evacuation orders for nearly 25,000 residents.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

At the time, Benetech had recruited area nonprofits to participate in four design teams: one on governance, one on funding, one on vision, and one on cost accounting. The idea was to create a common data platform, branded as Service Net. This is not a time to be proprietary,” Soward tells Said.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Online Video Service recently webcast a customers event via satellite from a submerged oil platform off the coast of California. For instance, the American Lung Association of California has set the bar for consistently using online video as a key part of its communications. Or it can be the primary focus of a marketing campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Heather McLeod-Grant has written up an important lessons learned report about the project and summarized they key findings in the guest post below. Pioneer Vincent Pan, CEO of Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) was inspired by this program to catalyze a new local network called Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (AACRE).

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

But truly, I love to do it because I love that when nonprofits get the grant funding they need, they can do extraordinary things. That’s why I’m passionate about really helping others do this stuff and get the most they can get for grant funding with the least amount of time preferably. So first of all, the very bad news.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

I have noticed that smaller nonprofits especially, don’t always have the organization or funding to develop programs that appeal to corporate donors; or they worry that they’re not big enough for corporate dollars. If they don’t find what they’re looking for, they’ll move on. It doesn’t just have to be events. How about your website?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2014

The Center for Responsive Politics, another nonprofit, released a tool that lets you toggle between in-district versus out-of-district campaign funds. On a local scale, our neighbors at OpenOakland are exposing the campaign finances of Oakland mayoral candidates. Percentage of total from personal funds.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

There are resources, information, training, and funding available in plenty. While many of the women had traveled the world, many of them had also devoted their lives to local solutions. The Global Peers will be reporting out on the successes of the women in communities throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. There are solutions.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

With initial funding of $2,500, he started the CompuMentor Project to match computer enthusiast volunteers called computer mentors with Bay Area nonprofits that needed the help. He took a psychology degree from the University of Chicago in 1969 and became a reporter and columnist for the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Nevertheless, when the software consistently reports a mismatch, a driver can be summarily dismissed. 11 According to a 2017 report, 57.3

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2007

To celebrate the first day, and hopefully prevent the recurrence of the second, here is an e-interview with Rae Abileah, the Local Groups Coordinator of CODEPINK. What do you do as the Local Groups Coordinator? Check out our local spotlight with great action photos on our site. March 20th is the 4th anniversary of the Iraq War.

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